Roberta Flack
Auteur de The Green Piano: How Little Me Found Music
A propos de l'auteur
Crédit image: Roland Godefroy
Œuvres de Roberta Flack
Softly With These Songs: The Best of Roberta Flack by Flack, Roberta (June 22, 1993) (1993) 26 exemplaires
Set The Night To Music 4 exemplaires
ROBERTA FLACK 3 exemplaires
Let It Be Roberta: Roberta Flack Sings the Beatles 1 exemplaire
ROBERTA FLACK FEATURING DONNY HATHAWAY - vinyl lp. 1 exemplaire
Roberta Flack in concert [DVD] 1 exemplaire
ROBERTA FLACK chapter two SD1560 1 exemplaire
In Concert / Killing Me Softly 1 exemplaire
Softly With These Songs - The Best of 1 exemplaire
MAKING LOVE (PROMO) (45/7") 1 exemplaire
Feel Like Makin' Love 1 exemplaire
Jesse 1 exemplaire
...roberta flack (disk 2) 1 exemplaire
...roberta flack (disk 1) 1 exemplaire
Haciendo el amor (making love) 1 exemplaire
Oeuvres associées
Beauty and the Beast: The Enchanted Christmas - Original Soundtrack (1997) — Contributeur — 2 exemplaires
Étiqueté
Partage des connaissances
- Date de naissance
- 1937-02-10
- Sexe
- female
- Nationalité
- USA
- Lieu de naissance
- Black Mountain, North Carolina, USA
- Lieux de résidence
- Arlington, Virginia, USA
- Études
- Howard University
- Professions
- singer-songwriter
musician
Membres
Critiques
Prix et récompenses
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Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 38
- Aussi par
- 2
- Membres
- 233
- Popularité
- #96,932
- Évaluation
- 3.6
- Critiques
- 8
- ISBN
- 7
- Langues
- 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… (plus d'informations)