Roberta Flack covered a fair amount of ground in her ten years of commercial success: starting as a jazz-fusion stylist, she moved on to intricately-produced pop and even disco. You could argue that the gentle soul sound espoused by Flack, Donny Hathaway and others was R&B's answer to soft rock; you could also argue it just developed from the more contemplative work of Aretha Franklin and Otis Redding.

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