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Roberta Flack: 'My music is my expression of what I feel in a moment'


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Roberta Flack: 'My music is my expression of what I feel in a moment'

By Jim Farber

 

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Roberta Flack: ‘I’ve tried my entire career to tell stories through my music.’ Photograph: Shahar Azran/WireImage

 

On a Roberta Flack record, everything moves slowly.

 

The beats tarry, encouraging the instruments to treat them with grace and the singer to savor every note.

 

When Flack sings a song, she caresses each cadence, considering and intensifying them, the better to realize the full meaning of the lyric.

 

It’s a one-of-a-kind style, often misconstrued as minimalist or middle-of-the-road.

 

Full Story: https://www.theguardian.com/music/2020/jan/21/roberta-flack-interview-music-grammys

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