Flack and Peabo Bryson hopped in the studio together for this ballad in the early ’80s. If you only know Flack from “Killing Me Softly With His Song,” this song might come as a surprise to you.
Peabo Bryson and Roberta Flack ... tale of lost love that’s long been associated with Ella Fitzgerald. The song drips with pungent blue notes, but Flack — singing over a jazz combo at ...
Flack continued scoring hits throughout the '70s and '80s, often dueting with artists such as Donny Hathaway and Peabo Bryson. In 1996, her music once again felt suddenly ubiquitous, as the Fugees ...
Celine Dion is one of the most well-regarded singers in the industry, with countless hit songs—but one has claimed the top spot.The singer released her first album in 1981 when she was just 12 years ...
It wouldn’t be possible for us just to stand by and not participate," Lauryn Hill said at a memorial service for Roberta ...
Her music was rooted in the intimacies of romance ... After Hathaway’s death, Flack developed a fruitful creative partnership with Peabo Bryson that climaxed with this plush lovers’ duet ...
Sure, I knew her songs but I didn’t ... “Born to Love” (from Flack and Peabo Bryson’s 1982 album “Born To Love”) Fans of Nasir Jones, better known as Nas, will probably recognize ...
In the early 1980s, when the hits had dried up, a series of duets with Bryson, notably Tonight I Celebrate My Love, brought her back to the charts. Her last big seller was a synth-soul double act with ...
US singer Peabo Bryson called her his “greatest inspiration” and said: “My relationship with this iconic and divinely gifted artist and friend, forever changed my life in music and ...