Mos Def - Umi Says

A Little Thing Called Life - Aaron Neville

India.Arie - Ready For Love

Melanie Fiona - It Kills Me

Heather Headley - In My Mind

Ledisi - Pieces Of Me

Roberta Flack

Internationally hailed as one of the greatest songstresses of our time, GRAMMY Award winning Roberta Flack remains unparalleled in her ability to tell a story through her music. Her songs bring insight into our lives, loves, culture and politics, while effortlessly traversing a broad musical landscape from pop to soul to folk to jazz.

Roberta Cleopatra Flack (born February 10, 1937) born in Black Mountain, North Carolina to parents Laron LeRoy (October 11, 1911–July 12, 1959) and Irene Flack (September 28, 1911–January 17, 1981)  a church organist,   and raised in Arlington, Virginia.  She first discovered the work of African American musical artists when she heard Mahalia Jackson and Sam Cooke sing in a predominantly African-American Baptist church.

When Flack was 9, she started having interest in playing the piano,  and during her early teens, Flack so excelled at classical piano that Howard University awarded her a full music scholarship. By age 15, she entered Howard University, making her one of the youngest students ever to enroll there. She eventually changed her major from piano to voice, and became an assistant conductor of the university choir. Her direction of a production of Aida received a standing ovation from the Howard University faculty. Flack is a member of Delta Sigma Theta sorority and was made an honorary member of Tau Beta Sigma by the Eta Delta Chapter at Howard University for her outstanding work in promoting music education.
Roberta Flack became a student teacher at a school near Chevy Chase, Maryland. She graduated from Howard University at 19 and began graduate studies in music, but the sudden death of her father forced her to take a job teaching music and English for $2800 a year in Farmville, North Carolina.

                       Roberta Flack - Quiet Fire (1971, full album)
 1 Go Up Moses 5:20
 2 Bridge Over Troubled Water 7:13
 3 Sunday And Sister Jones 4:18
 4 See You Then 3:40
 5 Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow 3:59
 6 To Love Somebody 6:41
 7 Let Them Talk 3:50
 8 Sweet Bitter Love 6:06
         
                  Roberta Flack - First Time Ever I Saw Your Face 1972


          Roberta Flack "Hey That's No Way To Say Goodbye".wmv


 Discovered while singing at the Washington, DC nightclub Mr. Henry's by jazz musician Les McCann, she was promptly signed to Atlantic With a string of hits, including, The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face, Where Is the Love (a duet with former Howard University classmate Donny Hathaway), Killing Me Softly With His Song, Feel Like Makin' Love, The Closer I Get to You, Tonight I Celebrate My Love, and Set the Night to Music, Ms. Flack has built a musical legacy. In 1999, she aptly received a Star on Hollywood's legendary Walk of Fame.

         Roberta Flack / Donny Hathaway - Where is the Love (1972)


         Roberta Flack ft. Donny Hathaway - The Closer I Get To You


         Roberta Flack - Suzanne


Les McCann discovered Flack singing and playing jazz in a Washington nightclub.  He later said on the liner notes of what would be her first album "First Take" noted below, "Her voice touched, tapped, trapped, and kicked every emotion I've ever known. I laughed, cried, and screamed for more...she alone had the voice."

Very active as a humanitarian and mentor, Ms. Flack founded the Roberta Flack School of Music at the Hyde Leadership Charter School in the Bronx, providing an innovative and inspiring music education program to underprivileged students free of charge.

         Softly with These Songs - The Best of Roberta Flack - Full CD


         Roberta Flack LIVE

R-Kelly - When A Woman Loves (Live)

Floetry - Say Yes

That's What Friends Are For - Dionne Warwick & Friends HQ

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Charlie Wilson - My Love Is All I Have

Avant & Keke Wyatt - You & I

Adele - Lovesong (Lyrics)

Whitney Houston - Greatest Love Of All Live

Quincy Jones - The Secret Garden

              Quincy Jones - The Secret Garden [Live - Soul Train Awards 1991]

Phyllis Hyman - No One Can Love You More

Somewhere In My Lifetime | Phyllis Hyman

"Somewhere In My Lifetime" by the exquisitely memorable vocalizations of the sultry, inimitable Phyllis Hyman, a natural phenomenon..

Four Women - Kelly Price, Marsha Ambrosius, Jill Scott & Ledisi

Ledisi - Eric Benet - Chrisette Michele

Shai - If I Ever Fall In Love

Musiq - Love

Will Downing - A Million Ways

Will downing & Phill perry - Baby i'm for real

Will Downing - Wishing On A Star

Eric Benet - Real Love

Jill Scott ft. Anthony Hamilton- So In Love (Official Video)

Jill Scott "Whatever"

This Must Be Heaven. Brainstorm.

Marley Munroe - Boomerang

Harold Melvin and the Blue Notes & Teddy Pendergrass

         Harold Melvin and the Blue Notes & Teddy Pendergrass

      Harold Melvin and The Blue Notes with Teddy Pendergrass performing Wake Up Everybody


     Harold Melvin and the Blue Notes Teddy Pendergrass "If You Dont Know Me By Now


     Harold Melvin + The Bluenotes - Hope That We Can Be Together Soon  1975 


     Harold Melvin & The Blue Notes - Bad Luck (1975)

               

    Teddy Pendergrass - Turn Off The LIghts (Live 1982)


     Teddy Pendergrass - Love TKO (Live in London 1982)


     Teddy Pendergrass ~ Is It Still Good To Ya?

I'd Give Anything

               I'd Give Anything ~ Gerald Levert ~ Lyrics

I'm waiting
For someone who could turn my life around
Someone who could make me feel the way I used to feel
But she never comes

I'm searching
But there's no one that I'd care to talk about
And all the lovers in the world don't amount to much
'Cause what I really want is just one true love

And I'd give anything and everything to fall in love
Just this one time, I'd like to find what i've been dreaming of
Well I could find someone to hold me but that wouldn't be enough
But I'd give anything to fall in love

Now I lay here I'd rather not be sleeping by myself
Staring at the wall, I question it all, will she ever come?

(Will she ever come?)
Will she ever come?

And I'd give anything and everything to fall in love
Just this one time, I'd like to find what I've been dreaming of
Well I could find someone to hold me but that wouldn't be enough
But I'd give anything to fall in love

I'm gonna keep on making wishes
I'm gonna keep on being strong
I won't settle for less than true love and it's best
I'll keep on holdin' on, and I'd give
I would give

And I'd give anything and everything to fall in love
Just this one time I'd like to find
(What I've been dreaming of)
Well I could find someone to hold me, but that wouldn't be enough
I'd give anything to fall in love

I'd give anything to fall in love
I want to fall, I want to fall in love
I'd give everything to fall in love

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