[Music] Roberta Flack - RIP

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Feb 20, 2017

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Sussex by the Sea

• Monday at 5:33 PM

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Classically trained, beautiful voice and a great talent.

RIP

 

hart's shirt

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Simply beautiful.

 

Man of Harveys

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Jul 9, 2003

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Oh man. Her impeccable renditions of First Time/Face and Killing Me Softly are just timelessly gorgeous pieces of music.

 

Nitram

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Wonderful and soulful singer. RIP.

 

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RIP. It's hard to improve on Ewan MacColl but

 

Official Old Man

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Aug 27, 2011

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Sad sad sad. Her songs will always bring a tear to my eye, they are just so beautifully sung.
I need to set the scene now. The sun is shining, it's summer and a warm evening. You're out with your young lady, parked up with a blanket in a field. And this song playing.

 

Tim Over Whelmed

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Sad to see the passing of Killing Me Softly singer Roberta Flack

 

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A mex eyecan

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oh that’s sad. Lovely and the best version of KMSWHS in my humble

 

aolstudios

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She was very, very special.
A lot more to her than those two huge songs

 

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Watched this a while back, well worth a visit if it reappears.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b046psxl

 

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Listening to her Spotify Best of, as I post

 

armchairclubber

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• Monday at 8:57 PM

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Oh Dear. One of the Greats. Such a talented singer, songwriter and pianist.
Particularly liked her early work and duets with Donny Hathaway, the greatest soul voice of all time, imo.
Rest easy Roberta ×

 

Perfidious Albion

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Lovely singer . I admit I only know the one big hit that she had , but it was a classic.
Lived until 88, that’s a good innings . She will be remembered RIP

 

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Is it PotG? said:

Classically trained, beautiful voice and a great talent.

RIP

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One of my favourite Cohen tracks. She has a beautiful voice. ‘First time’ is just so gorgeous.