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Flack was the first artist to win the Grammy Award for Record of the Year in two consecutive years: "The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face" won in 1973 and "Killing Me Softly with His Song" won in 1974.
For the latest episode of GRAMMY Rewind, we revisit the iconic Roberta Flack 's second Record Of The Year GRAMMY, for "Killing Me Softly With His Song" at the 1974 GRAMMYs. The soulful classic/No. 1 hit also won Best Female Pop Vocal Performance that year.
Flack won the 1973 Grammy Award for Record of the Year and Best Female Pop Vocal Performance, for the single, with Gimbel and Fox earning the Song of the Year Grammy. In 1996, a house remix of Flack's version went to number one on the US dance chart. [29] In 1999, Flack's version was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame. [30]
She is the only solo artist to win the GRAMMY Award Record of the Year for two (2) consecutive years: The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face won the 1973 GRAMMY and Killing Me Softly with His Song won the 1974 GRAMMY. Classically trained on the piano from an early age, Ms. Flack received a music scholarship at age 15 to attend Howard University.
Apr 17, 2023 · The track's success propelled Flack's album, Killing Me Softly, to the top of the US charts too, though lost out to Stevie Wonder's 1973 album Innervisions for the Grammy's Album Of The Year. Roberta Flack was the first ever artist to win the Grammy Award for Record Of The Year in two consecutive years, both in 1973 and 1974.
Nov 15, 2022 · Roberta Flack became celebrated as a big influence on the R&B subgenre dubbed 'quiet storm', along with her covers of artists such as Leonard Cohen and the Beatles. She was the first artist to win the Grammy Award for Record of the Year in two consecutive years, in 1973 and 1974.
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Feb 10, 2020 · As the only solo artist to win the Grammy for Record of the Year two years in a row — in 1973 for "The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face," and in 1974 for "Killing Me Softly With His Song" — she ...
