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Roberta Flack, 85, cannot sing and struggles to speak after being diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, her publicist said Monday.
Nov. 14, 2022
Pop music review: Roberta Flack’s show Friday in Santa Ana was a current and relevant nod to the songwriting-buoyed success of the Fugees, Maxwell and Dionne Farris.
Aug. 4, 1997
Television
Joining the Soaps: Four-time Grammy winner Roberta Flack makes a guest appearance on today’s episode of ABC’s daytime soap “Loving.”
April 2, 1993
Awards
Anna Chlumsky talks ‘Veep,’ gives a shout-out to Roberta Flack
Aug. 19, 2013
Like most soul music notables who emerged in the ‘60s and early ‘70s, Roberta Flack had to adapt later on, when producers and their machines, not songwriters and their imaginations, came to rule R&B.; The Fugees’ success last year with a not so radically altered version of Flack’s 1973 signature hit, “Killing Me Softly With His Song,” was a sign that the classic virtues are returning to nourish a genre thirsty for the character that good songwriting brings.
If Roberta Flack had any sense, she wouldn’t sing her oldies along with her more recent material, no matter how much audiences complained.
Feb. 3, 1992
* 1/2 Roberta Flack, “Set the Night to Music,” Atlantic.
Dec. 1, 1991
R&B; singer Roberta Flack plans to transform two abandoned brownstones in Harlem into a school of music to be opened next fall.
Dec. 21, 2004
** 1/2ROBERTA FLACK, “Oasis,” Atlantic.
Nov. 27, 1988
Roberta Flack has been famous for almost 20 years, yet this was the first time ever she showed her face on a T-shirt.
July 22, 1989