| LC control no. | n 91012004 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Flack, Roberta |
| Associated country | United States |
| Birth date | 1939-02-10 |
| Place of birth | Asheville (N.C.) |
| Affiliation | Howard University University of Massachusetts Amherst Atlantic Recording Corporation |
| Profession or occupation | Singers Educators |
| Found in | Her Oasis [SR] p1988: label (Roberta Flack) LC data base, 02-05-91 (hdg.: Flack, Roberta) New Grove dict. of Amer. mus. (Flack, Roberta; b. Feb. 10, 1939, Black Mountain, NC; popular singer) African American National Biography, accessed December 23, 2014, via Oxford African American Studies Center database: (Flack, Roberta; popular singer, music educator; born 10 February 1939 probably Asheville, North Carolina, United States; received a BA in Music Education at Howard University (1955); undertook doctoral studies at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst; became the first undergraduate at Howard to give a public recital in vocal literature; taught English at a school for African Americans in Farmville, North Carolina; was hired to perform at Henry Yaffe's Mr. Henry's Club; obtained a contract with Atlantic Records; her second album, Chapter Two, sold over one million copies; her third album, Quiet Fire, totaled one million before its release (1971); Killing Me Softly won a Grammy Award for Best Female Pop Vocals (1973); Roberta earned her a Grammy in the Traditional Pop Vocal category (1994); teamed with folk singer Judy Collins for a series of concerts to benefit the Nina Hyde Center for Breast Cancer Research at Georgetown University) |
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