The Green Piano
How Little Me Found Music, by Roberta Flack.
Legendary singer Roberta Flack tells the story of her childhood growing up surrounded by music and love.
Grammy Award-winning singer Roberta Flack was born in Black Mountain, NC, and her childhood environment was full of music. LeRoy and her mother, Irene Council Flack, who was a church organist, kept the art of music alive in their home, having family jam sessions together.
The Green Piano, a new autobiographical picture book, recounts Flack’s childhood in a home surrounded by music and love: it all started with a beat-up piano that her father found in a junkyard, repaired, and painted green.
Growing up in a Blue Ridge mountain town, little Roberta didn’t have fancy clothes or expensive toys… but she did have music. And she dreamed of having her own piano.
When her daddy spies an old, beat-up upright piano in a junkyard, he knows he can make his daughter’s dream come true. He brings it home, cleans and tunes it, and paints it a grassy green. And soon the little girl has an instrument to practice on, and a new dream to reach for—one that will make her become a legend in the music industry.
The Green Piano is a lyrical picture book—perfect for aspiring piano players and singers—that shares an intimate look at Roberta Flack’s family and her special connection to music.
The Green Piano, How Little Me Found Music, by Roberta Flack and Tonya Bolden, was illustrated by Hayden Goodman.
