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Roberta Flack (born February 10 1937) is an United States|American singer, notable in the areas of jazz, soul music|soul, and folk music|folk. Flack is best known for singles such as "Killing Me Softly with His Song", "The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face", "Where Is the Love (Roberta Flack and Donny Hathaway song)|Where Is the Love?" (one of her many duets with Donny Hathaway), and "Feel Like Makin' Love (Roberta Flack song)|Feel Like Makin' Love". "The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face" won the Grammy Awards of 1973|1973 Grammy Grammy Award for Record of the Year|Record of the Year and "Killing Me Softly with His Song" won the same award at the Grammy Awards of 1974.

Biography
Flack was raised in Arlington County, Virginia|Arlington, Virginia. She first discovered the work of African American musical artists when she heard Mahalia Jackson and Sam Cooke sing in a predominantly black Baptist church.

In her early teens, Flack so excelled at classical piano that Howard University awarded her a full music scholarship. She matriculated at Howard University at the age of 15, making her one of the youngest students ever to enroll there. She eventually changed her major from piano to voice, and became an assistant conductor of the university choir. Her direction of a production of ''Aida'' received a standing ovation from the... read all