# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/roberta-flack
# Generated: 2026-08-13T01:04:14.501Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/roberta-flack"
name: "Roberta Flack"
slug: "roberta-flack"
description: "Roberta Cleopatra Flack was an American singer and pianist known for her emotive, genre-blending ballads that spanned R&B, jazz, folk, and pop and contributed to the birth of the quiet storm radio format. Her commercial success included the Billboard Hot 100 chart-topping singles \"The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face\", \"Killing Me Softly with His Song\", and \"Feel Like Makin' Love\". She became the first artist to win the Grammy Award for Record of the Year in consecutive years."
tagline: "American singer (1937–2025)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Roberta_Flack_1976.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1937-02-10"
deathDate: "2025-02-24"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             3.73340781528476
  historical:           25.858608
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     95
  profileCompleteness:  90
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
totalFollowers: 210000
platforms:
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    handle:    "officialrobertaflack"
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    handle:    "@robertaflack"
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    type:  "DATABASE"
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    title: "Roberta Flack"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump