FLACK, ROBERTA

FLACK, ROBERTA. Popular music/Jazz singer (10 February 1939 in Black Mountain, North Carolina). She came from a musical family: both parents played piano, and her mother was a church organist. Her family moved to Arlington, Virginia, when she was five years old. She first studied piano with her mother, then began formal lessons with Alma Blackmon of Washington, D.C., when she was nine. She obtained her musical education at Howard University in Washington (B. A., 1958), then pursued graduate...