Roberta Cleopatra Flack (born February 10, 1937) is an American singer. She is known for her #1 singles "The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face", "Killing Me Softly with His Song" and "Feel Like Makin\' Love", and for "Where Is the Love" and "The Closer I Get to You", two of her many duets with Donny Hathaway.\n', '

Flack was the first, and remains the only, solo artist to win the Grammy Award for Record of the Year on two consecutive years: "The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face" won at the 1973 Grammys as did "Killing Me Softly with His Song" at the 1974 Grammys.\n', '

Flack lived with a musical family, born in Black Mountain, North Carolina to parents Laron LeRoy and Irene Council Flack a church organist, on February 10, 1937 (some sources also say 1939) and raised in Arlington, Virginia. Growing up she often accompanied her Episcopal church\'s choir playing hymns and spirituals on piano, but she also enjoyed going to the "Baptist church down the street" to listen to contemporary gospel music, such as that performed by Mahalia Jackson and Sam Cooke.\n', '

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