New York – New York (AP) – Roberta Flack, Grammy’s winning singer and pianist whose songs “The First Time Iver Your Face” and “Killing Me Softly With Sur Song” made it a global star, will praise in a commemorative service on Monday.
Flack was one of the best recording artists of the 1970s and an influential interpreter due to his intimate vocal and musical style, He died last month. She was 88 years old.
Flack’s “Celebration of Life” monument will be broadcast live from New York on Monday afternoon.
Here is everything you need to know:
The celebration of Flack’s life will take place in the Baptist Church Abisinia from 4 pm east. It is open to the public. The service will also be broadcast live in www.robertaflack.com.
It is an adequate place: Flack grew with the gospel of the Church; His mother played in organ in the African Methodist Episcopal Church Lomax in Arlington, Virginia. When he was a teenager, he began to accompany the church choir in the piano.
Flack leaves behind a rich repertoire of music that avoids categorization. His debut, “First Take”, Wove Soul, Jazz, Flamenco, Gospel and Folk in a revealing package, witnessing in his form and measured in his focus.
It is probably remembered for your classics. Those include “the first time I saw your face”, their dream version of “The first time I saw your face”, written by the English folk artist Ewan Maccoll for his wife Peggy Seeger. He marked the beginning of the main success of Flack when used in a love scene between Clint Eastwood And Donna Mills in his 1971 film “Play Misty for Me”.
But most will think of “Killing Me Softly with her song” when the name of Flack appears in the conversation. First he listened to the “Killing Me Softly with her song” by Lori Lieberman while he was on a plane and immediately fell in love with him. While I was on tour with Quincy Jones, She covered the song, and the audience also feels in love with her, since they would continue for decades.
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