@channel.ebonny: Roberta Flack was born February 10, 1937, in Black Mountain, North Carolina, and raised in Arlington, Virginia, where she was recognized as a piano prodigy before she was even a teenager. Classically trained, she earned a full scholarship to Howard University at 15 — the youngest student on campus — and carried that conservatory discipline into every note she sang.   While teaching school by day and singing in D.C. clubs at night, she developed a style all her own. Somewhere between recital and confession… slow, stripped-down, emotionally exact. That quiet intensity became her signature when “The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face” turned her into a global name in 1972 after Clint Eastwood used it in Play Misty for Me. It won her a Grammy and proved that soul music could be cinematic.   Then came “Killing Me Softly with His Song”, “Feel Like Makin’ Love”, and the duets with Donny Hathaway — “Where Is the Love” and “The Closer I Get to You.” She damn nearperformed conversations. No one else made restraint feel that intimate.   Her softness became source code for future generations. I know you’ve heard them. The Fugees turned “Killing Me Softly” into one of the most celebrated hip-hop/R&B crossovers of the 1990s. Erykah Badu borrowed the core of “Feel Like Makin’ Love” for her neo-soul debut. All time GOAT’s from MF DOOM to Pete Rock have flipped her recordings plenty-- they’re spacious, emotional, timeless.   She undressed songs and let the silence do the rest.   Title: Killing Me Softly With His Song Artist: Roberta Flack Album: Killing Me Softly Release Date: January 1973 Genre: Soul, R&B, Soft Rock #SongsThatEssentiallySavedMyLife #MusicHistoryLesson #fyp #robertaflack #sample

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