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She recently concluded a highly successful six-week tour of the West Coast, Hawaii, Japan and Australia. Divorced from Bass Player Steve Novosel, she reluctantly concludes that for a woman marriage and a stage career are incompatible. "You can be in love, you can't help that. You can have children," says Roberta, who has an adopted twelve-year-old daughter of her own. "But women artists who marry spend all their time arranging. Even if they can manage cooking dinner and practicing, their art suffers. They fail a little in both roles."
Success is an old habit with Flack.
The exterior of soft susceptibility is misleading. She is a stubborn perfectionist. The woman who is one of the leading pop stylists of the decade is now learning Bach arias for future records: "I can share with the audience the way I feel through Bach as well as pop." Flack cautions tartly, "You better not be surprised if you hear me do Manon Lescaut some day."