Roberta Flack

Shows for Roberta Flack

  •   Date Venue Location  
Add a Show Add A Show More Roberta Flack Shows

Fans of Roberta Flack

All Roberta Flack Fans: 162

Roberta Flack

Born in Asheville, North Carolina, and raised in Arlington,Virginia, Roberta Flack discovered her earliest musical influences from the church. The local AME Zion Church gave everyone the opportunity to get out of the house, but, as Roberta recalls, the music "didn't have the raunchy, wide-open, free, spontaneous, full-of-life thing that you could hear at the Baptist Church down the street." Whenever she could, she'd sneak over there to hear such gospel luminaries as Mahalia Jackson and Sam Cooke with the Soul Stirrers. At home, Roberta's father... more