In The 1970s Roberta Flack

Roberta Flack was born in 1937 in the U.S., and during her teenage years she was a very accomplished classical piano player. She later excelled at school and went on to be a teacher in Washington D.D., where she also taught private piano lessons and performed in clubs at the weekends.

In 1968 she was discovered and started to make albums. Her first being First Take that went to No. 1 in the U.S.which had The First Time I Ever Saw Your Face which would later become a huge hit in the 1970s, in part thanks to Clint Eastwood film Play Misty For Me in 1971.

Roberta released several singles in 1970, but all failed to make an impact, although her album Chapter Two made some U.S. charts.