After a triumphant battle with stroke and COVID-19, legendary singer Roberta Flack has big plans for her return to the music scene.
Hoping to see her fans after recovering from two fatal illnesses, the 85-year old singer is ready to return to the stage as she regains her strength back after two years of being caged by the coronavirus pandemic.
PEOPLE exclusively reported that the "Killing Me Softly with His Song" hitmaker has a bagful of projects that have kept her occupied during in-home quarantine.
She revealed that a biopic of her life and illustrious career is underway alongside a children's book inspired by her very first piano, which her father rescued from a junkyard.
"He painted it green, and it smelled bad, but I played and practiced for untold hours on that piano. It gave me wings of music that as a 9-year-old girl I needed so badly. I've been knocked down so many times, but I kept trying. Keep trying," she recalls on the piano on which her new book will be based.
Looking back on her remarkable journey, Roberta released the now-timeless ballad "The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face" when she just turned 35.
She, later on, revealed how the song was used throughout her life, "Through the years, I've sung that song thousands of times, and it has taken on different stories in my life, [but] honestly, at the time it was recorded, I sang it about my cat who had just died."
Bustin Loose
More than four decades later, her 1981 "Bustin' Loose" soundtrack made its way to the digital landscape after it was re-released a day after her 85th birthday digitally.
The nine-track album, which Geffen/UMe released, has guest vocalists Luther Vandross and Peabo Bryson, five songs sung by Flack herself, and two instrumentals that she co-wrote.
In total, Flack co-wrote six of the nine songs on the album, described as "electric modern soul" by the Department of Afro-American Research, Arts, and Culture.
Roberta Flack received her Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 2020 in New bred singers Khalid, Demi Lovato, Alicia Keys, and Ariana Grande paid respects to her upon meeting.
Flack described being in the Grammys as "overwhelming and breathtaking" as she met new artists in the industry.
"When I met [those] artists and so many others in person and heard from them that they were inspired by my music, I felt understood," she highlighted.
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