Roberta Flack
Forfatter af The Green Piano: How Little Me Found Music
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Image credit: Roland Godefroy
Værker af Roberta Flack
Softly With These Songs: The Best of Roberta Flack by Flack, Roberta (June 22, 1993) (1993) 26 eksemplarer
Set The Night To Music 4 eksemplarer
ROBERTA FLACK 3 eksemplarer
Roberta Flack in concert [DVD] 1 eksemplar
ROBERTA FLACK chapter two SD1560 1 eksemplar
In Concert / Killing Me Softly 1 eksemplar
Softly With These Songs - The Best of 1 eksemplar
MAKING LOVE (PROMO) (45/7") 1 eksemplar
Feel Like Makin' Love 1 eksemplar
Jesse 1 eksemplar
...roberta flack (disk 2) 1 eksemplar
...roberta flack (disk 1) 1 eksemplar
Haciendo el amor (making love) 1 eksemplar
Associated Works
Beauty and the Beast: The Enchanted Christmas - Original Soundtrack (1997) — Bidragyder — 2 eksemplarer
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- Fødselsdato
- 1937-02-10
- Køn
- female
- Nationalitet
- USA
- Fødested
- Black Mountain, North Carolina, USA
- Bopæl
- Arlington, Virginia, USA
- Uddannelse
- Howard University
- Erhverv
- singer-songwriter
musician
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- Værker
- 38
- Also by
- 2
- Medlemmer
- 233
- Popularitet
- #96,932
- Vurdering
- 3.6
- Anmeldelser
- 8
- ISBN
- 7
- Sprog
- 2
The titular piano, rescued from a junkyard for the 9-year-old prodigy, serves as a memorable central image, but the memoir the renowned singer and co-author Bolden weave around it is really about the joys of growing up in a musical family and turning musical dreams into reality through years of listening, practice, and study. Identifying her parents, siblings, and music teachers by name as she goes, Flack vivaciously recalls first her excitement as her father and mother painstakingly fixed up the “old, / ratty, beat-up, / weather-worn, / faded, / stained, / stinky” instrument (“I couldn’t wait, couldn’t wait, couldn’t WAIT for / the paint to dry!”), then the intense feeling of “notes flowing through my fingers / to my body, / to my soul,” on the way to a life in music: “Grown-up me lived this dream! Year after year after year!” Goodman follows along in equally lyrical measures, giving the brown-skinned narrator the same rhapsodic smile as she goes from a vision of playing hymns on a rickety-looking church piano at “age three, maybe four” to accompanying herself on a huge concert grand as an adult star. In a closing note, with photos, she offers further nods to people who helped her as she fills in the details of her stellar career. Family members and other figures in the pictures are African American. (This book was reviewed digitally.)
A moving testimonial to the effects of instilling a love of live music in childhood. (timeline) (Picture-book biography. 6-8)
-Kirkus Review… (mere)