Roberta Flack

When did you get your first piano? My father... went to what was obviously a junkyard to get this. Because when the piano came back, and I will remember this as long as I live, there was such an odor because little rat tiny people had been living in it, obviously.

When did you get your first piano? My father... went to what was obviously a junkyard to get this. Because when the piano came back, and I will remember this as long as I live, there was such an odor because little rat tiny people had been living in it, obviously.

It was a wonderful time to be there. I mean, for a person who was born in the ghetto like I was to be in a situation where people walked in and said, play Gershwin, play an aria from La Boheme, play something from La Traviata, and I could deliver that.

It was a wonderful time to be there. I mean, for a person who was born in the ghetto like I was to be in a situation where people walked in and said, play Gershwin, play an aria from La Boheme, play something from La Traviata, and I could deliver that.

Music is everything to me. Music is my life. Music is the meaning because it is the only thing that I would not want to live without.

Music is everything to me. Music is my life. Music is the meaning because it is the only thing that I would not want to live without.

At one point I was teaching physical education and I thought,

At one point I was teaching physical education and I thought,

At one point I was teaching physical education and I thought,

Math classes, I taught English classes. Which is a waste, I guess.

Math classes, I taught English classes. Which is a waste, I guess.

Math classes, I taught English classes. Which is a waste, I guess.

No, not a waste, but not music. Flack played her early gigs around Washington, D.C.

No, not a waste, but not music. Flack played her early gigs around Washington, D.C.

No, not a waste, but not music. Flack played her early gigs around Washington, D.C.

I decided to stop teaching school after I had worked for the summer as a singer at a little club on Capitol Hill where a lot of senators came with their families on Sundays, and it was also a gay bar, and it was like...

I decided to stop teaching school after I had worked for the summer as a singer at a little club on Capitol Hill where a lot of senators came with their families on Sundays, and it was also a gay bar, and it was like...

I decided to stop teaching school after I had worked for the summer as a singer at a little club on Capitol Hill where a lot of senators came with their families on Sundays, and it was also a gay bar, and it was like...

Singing my life with his words.

Singing my life with his words.

Singing my life with his words.

Come on, come on, come on.

Come on, come on, come on.

Come on, come on, come on.