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15 de dez. de 2023 · Lost Takes by Roberta Flack, released 15 December 2023 Arc Records are proud to announce ‘Lost Takes’; a collection of tracks recorded by Roberta Flack in the sessions leading up to the recording of her seminal debut album ‘First Take’.
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Flack was born on February 10, 1937, in Black Mountain, North Carolina, to parents Laron Flack, a Veterans Administration draftsman, and Irene (née Council) Flack a church organist, on February 10, 1937 (some sources have cited 1939 but the 1940 Census gives Roberta's age as 3 years old). She grew up in Arlington, Virginia. Growing up in a large, m...
Early career
Before becoming a professional singer-songwriter, Flack returned to Washington, D.C., and taught at Banneker, Browne, and Rabaut Junior High Schools. She also taught private piano lessons out of her home on Euclid Street, NW in the city. During that time, her music career began to take shape on evenings and weekends in Washington metropolitan areanight spots. At the Tivoli Club, she accompanied opera singers at the piano. During intermissions, she would sing blues, folk, and pop standards in...
1970s
Les McCann discovered Flack singing and playing jazz in a Washington, D.C. nightclub. He later said on the liner notes of what would be her first album First Take noted below, "Her voice touched, tapped, trapped, and kicked every emotion I've ever known. I laughed, cried, and screamed for more... she alone had the voice." Very quickly he arranged an audition for her with Atlantic Records, during which she played 42 songs in 3 hours for producer Joel Dorn. In November 1968, she recorded 39 son...
1980s
Flack had a 1982 hit single with "Making Love", written by Burt Bacharach (the title track of the 1982 film of the same name), which reached No. 13. She began working with Peabo Bryson with more limited success, charting as high as No. 5 on the R&B chart (plus No. 16 Pop and No. 4 Adult Contemporary) with "Tonight, I Celebrate My Love" in 1983. In 1986, Flack sang the theme song entitled "Together Through the Years" for the NBC television series Valerie, later known as The Hogan Family. The s...
In 1971, Village Voice critic Robert Christgau reported that "Flack is generally regarded as the most significant new black woman singer since Aretha Franklin, and at moments she sounds kind, intelligent, and very likable. But she often exhibits the gratuitous gentility you'd expect of someone who says 'between you and I'." Reviewing her body of wo...
Flack is a member of the Artist Empowerment Coalition, which advocates for artists to have the right to control their creative properties. She is also a spokeswoman for the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals; her appearance in commercials for the ASPCA featured "The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face". The Hyde Leadership Charte...
On May 11, 2017, Roberta Flack received an honorary Doctorate degree in the Arts from Long Island University. Flack was inducted into the North Carolina Music Hall of Famein 2009. In 2021, Flack was one of the first inductees into the Women Songwriters Hall of Fame. On March 12, 2022, Flack was honored with the DAR Women in American History Award a...
McGilligan, Patrick (1999). Clint: The Life and Legend. Harper Collins. ISBN 0-00-638354-8.Bryan, Sarah; Beverly Patterson (2013). "Roberta Flack". African American Trails of Eastern North Carolina. North Carolina Arts Council. p. 92. ISBN 978-1469610795.Roberta Flack at IMDb15 de dez. de 2023 · View credits, reviews, tracks and shop for the 2023 Vinyl release of "Lost Takes" on Discogs.
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Arc Records are proud to announce ‘Lost Takes’; a collection of tracks recorded by Roberta Flack in the sessions leading up to the recording of her seminal debut album ‘First Take’. The music has never been released on wax before and is presented here as a double LP in a beautiful midnight blue gatefold sleeve and pressed on heavy-weight 180g black vinyl with sleeve-notes from Harmony ...
Iconic singer-songwriter and musician, four-time Grammy Award winner Roberta Flack retired from performing in 2022 following a diagnosis of motor neurone disease, which made it “impossible to sing”. In celebration of an illustrious career, a set of early recordings, ‘Lost Takes’, has just been released.
18 de jan. de 2024 · And Roberta Flack, now 86, and who announced in 2022 she will not sing again, is revealed to have been a true star from the very get-go. Insightful sleeve notes by Harmony Holiday add context to the music.
