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Power Player of the Week: Roberta Flack

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    Famed singer on captivating audiences for over 40 years

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She is been part of the soundtrack of our lives for more than forty years and her songs of love and loss reflect around life.

Here's our power player of the.

Yeah I was telling -- -- though.

At age 73 Roberta Flack is indeed still here.

Still captivating audiences -- -- magical voice and music.

It started so easily.

-- 1973.

She won the grammys for record and song of the year for first time ever I saw your Friday.

So what was that like to just hit a big scary overwhelming frightening unbelievable there's one.

Is this really.

Then a year later she won the grammys again.

For killing me softly.

Two years in a row you have a song of the year record of the year -- just think this is gonna go on forever yes.

No -- -- but why but -- suddenly stopped recording and gave few concerts three years.

You didn't release an album.

Yeah I didn't -- is that what what I'm really isn't how my I don't know.

I think I didn't have anything to say.

She also had serious throat problems.

But as -- says she is still here.

Now forty years after her big break she's released an album of Beatles songs.

Inspired by living next -- John Lennon when he was writing imagine.

The -- on my computer room.

Is also the back wall of his music room and I'm hearing.

-- -- There's no.

It's hard to imagine Roberta -- journey.

She grew up in -- largely segregated Northern Virginia but she started piano lessons at age nine.

Six years later she had a music scholarship to Howard University.

What are you doing in college at the age of fifty.

I -- get -- fourteen accidentally set I was just short -- but I'm.

No one was possibly train -- back -- real ambition was to be a concert pianist.

Which may be why six years ago she started the Roberta -- school of music.

And -- charter school in the golf.

You don't become the next -- You know -- -- on sale whomever Obama -- them but they estimating some basic fundamental.

Speaking on the fundamentals.

Blacks still takes voice lessons.

-- -- Polishing -- tomb he -- Warming it up you keep chatting it making it brighter moon and police.

Elements intellect -- in the morning and played so I can't blame what -- The excitement.

Can you get on us today this -- Roberta Flack hopes to open more music schools here in Washington and in Barbados.

And she intends to keep on this thing.

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