Roberta Flack

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human pianist recording artist singer songwriter

Roberta Flack is an American singer, songwriter, and pianist renowned for her soulful, introspective ballads such as "Killing Me Softly with His Song" and "The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face."

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All labels observed (2)

Label	Occurrences
Roberta Flack canonical	23
Roberta Cleopatra Flack	1

Statements (51)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	human ⓘ pianist ⓘ recording artist ⓘ singer ⓘ songwriter ⓘ
activeYearsStart	1960s ⓘ
associatedAct	Donny Hathaway ⓘ Maxi Priest ⓘ Peabo Bryson ⓘ
awardReceived	Grammy Award for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance ⓘ surface form: Grammy Award for Best Pop Vocal Performance, Female Grammy Award for Record of the Year ⓘ Grammy Award for Song of the Year ⓘ Grammy Hall of Fame Award ⓘ
birthName	Roberta Flack self-linksurface differs ⓘ surface form: Roberta Cleopatra Flack
countryOfCitizenship	United States of America ⓘ
dateOfBirth	1937-02-10 ⓘ
education	Howard University ⓘ
ethnicGroup	Black Americans ⓘ surface form: African American
genre	R&B ⓘ jazz ⓘ pop music ⓘ soul music ⓘ
instrument	piano ⓘ
languageOfWorkOrName	English ⓘ
name	Roberta Flack self-link ⓘ
notableAlbum	Blue Lights in the Basement ⓘ Chapter Two ⓘ Feel Like Makin' Love ⓘ First Take ⓘ Killing Me Softly ⓘ Quiet Fire ⓘ
notableFor	soulful introspective ballads ⓘ
notableSong	Feel Like Makin' Love ⓘ Killing Me Softly ⓘ surface form: Killing Me Softly with His Song The Closer I Get to You ⓘ The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face ⓘ Tonight I Celebrate My Love ⓘ surface form: Tonight, I Celebrate My Love Where Is the Love ⓘ
notableWork	Feel Like Makin' Love ⓘ Killing Me Softly ⓘ surface form: Killing Me Softly with His Song Set the Night to Music ⓘ The Closer I Get to You ⓘ The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face ⓘ Tonight I Celebrate My Love ⓘ surface form: Tonight, I Celebrate My Love Where Is the Love ⓘ
occupation	pianist ⓘ singer ⓘ songwriter ⓘ
placeOfBirth	Black Mountain, North Carolina ⓘ surface form: Black Mountain, North Carolina, United States
residence	New York City ⓘ surface form: New York City (historical)
voiceType	contralto ⓘ

Referenced by (24)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Roberta → hasNotableBearers → Roberta Flack ⓘ

Will You Love Me Tomorrow → hasNotableCoverVersionBy → Roberta Flack ⓘ

Marcus Miller → collaboratedWith → Roberta Flack ⓘ

Just Like a Woman → hasCoverVersionBy → Roberta Flack ⓘ

Nesuhi Ertegun → producedForArtist → Roberta Flack ⓘ

Peabo Bryson → performedWith → Roberta Flack ⓘ

Peabo Bryson → associatedAct → Roberta Flack ⓘ

Mtume → associatedAct → Roberta Flack ⓘ

Donny Hathaway → associatedAct → Roberta Flack ⓘ

Dakota apartment building → hasNotableResident → Roberta Flack ⓘ

subject surface form: The Dakota

Roberta Flack → name → Roberta Flack self-link ⓘ

Roberta Flack → birthName → Roberta Flack self-linksurface differs ⓘ

this entity surface form: Roberta Cleopatra Flack

Atlantic → signedArtist → Roberta Flack ⓘ

subject surface form: Atlantic Records

The Closer I Get to You → performer → Roberta Flack ⓘ

The Closer I Get to You → originallyPopularizedBy → Roberta Flack ⓘ

Snoh Aalegra → hasMusicalInfluence → Roberta Flack ⓘ

Hugh McCracken → workedWith → Roberta Flack ⓘ

Tonight I Celebrate My Love → performer → Roberta Flack ⓘ

Tonight I Celebrate My Love → duetWith → Roberta Flack ⓘ

Joel Dorn → collaboratedWith → Roberta Flack ⓘ

Richard Tee → workedWith → Roberta Flack ⓘ

The Hogan Family → hasOpeningThemePerformer → Roberta Flack ⓘ

Killing Me Softly → originalPerformer → Roberta Flack ⓘ

To Love Somebody → hasCoverVersionBy → Roberta Flack ⓘ