Word: rubina
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Like many another piano student, she logged the requisite thousand hours before Carl Czerny's yellow-backed exercise books. But while Roberta Flack labored over knuckle-aching third and fourth finger trills, Rubina Flake-a daydream twin invented in early childhood-polished off Chopin concertos. At 13, Flack played the complete score of Handel's Messiah for her church choir. In her early 20s, she became a serious opera student. At that time Flake, presumably, was a diva at the Met. It came as no small blow then when Flack's vocal coach gently suggested...
...forms, even struggling to learn to operate the engineer's console. It took over a year to complete the record, and Flack says that she will never do all that again. She is confident that her new album, Feel Like Makin' Love (Atlantic), which lists Rubina Flake on the keyboard, on background vocals and as producer, is her best LP yet. But it is possibly too elaborate: the orchestrations have more Rachmaninoff than most of the simple songs can support...