Remembering Roberta Flack

While there, it will be from Wikipedia, from which pertinent facts/highlights of the magnificent work of Roberta Flack, who died days back at age 88, will be posted.

Her popular, moving music yielding such popular songs has many memory manifestations.

One so seaped in so much me is a 1973 trip for college orientation at SUNY Albany. I am driving but Dad (where is he, Richard Orris and two beyond plutonic/there for the ride females are present.

The AM only radio, had to be WABC, right?! is on with Roberta Flack’s beautiful “Killing Me Softly With Your Sing” emitting beauty, I can not quite fully grasp (even now) but all of us, including my father, from another generation, enjoying.

Somehow during or next (do not waste the battery) we all get out of the car to “stretch etc.” and I lock it with the keys still in the ignition. This leaves me beyond embarrassed and is a big problem.

However, Dad did carry an extra set of keys, something all drivers, without whatever “automatic” convenences that would avoid such, ought to do.

Roberta Flack was a magnificent performer and the memories of her iconic songs stay with so many.

Some of the facts from Wikipedia follow and are record making history and “breaking.”

Roberta Cleopatra Flack (February 10, 1937 – February 24, 2025) was an American singer and pianist known for her emotive, genre-blending ballads that spanned R&B, jazz, folk, and pop and contributed to the birth of quiet storm. Her commercial success included the Billboard Hot 100 chart-topping singles “The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face“, “Killing Me Softly with His Song“, and “Feel Like Makin’ Love“. She became the first artist to win the Grammy Award for Record of the Year in consecutive years.

Roberta Flack, pictured above. Click below to view the magnificent Ms. Flack perform the iconic “Killing Me Softly with Your Song.”