Roberta Flack

With the appearance of her first album a little less than a year ago, Roberta Flack
immediately established herself as worthy to enter the pantheon with the two other truly
great black female singers of the Sixties, Aretha and Nina Simone. It is impossible to classify
her. She is not a "soul" singer like Aretha, who emphasizes gospel rhythms and blues
harmonies. She is not a shouter like Aretha, either. She is not a jazz musician, as... More >