Flack "moved me and showed me through her own creative choices and standards what else was possible within the idiom of Soul, ...
Lauryn Hill paid loving tribute to the "beauty and brilliance" of late quiet storm singer Robert Flack on Tuesday (Feb. 25) ...
Flack won two Grammys for "Killing Me Softly with His Song": record of the year and best pop vocal performance, female in ...
One singer made “Killing Me Softly” iconic, while the other was left out of its history. Later in life, they came together.
Roberta Flack, best known for her '70s hits 'Killing Me Softly' (later covered by the Fugees) and 'The First Time Ever I Saw ...
The '80s brought soft rock detouring for Flack, another experimentation for the innovative performer. “Tonight, I Celebrate ...
Roberta Flack, whose tender vocals made her one of R&B's most beloved singers in a celebrated career that included the Grammy ...
Roberta Flack, the singer and musician known for her chart-topping recordings of songs such as “The First Time Ever I Saw ...
"What she gave to that song was ... something I never, ever could have imagined,” said Lori Lieberman, who originally ...
Lori Lieberman is also musically intertwined with Flack and ... "I have endless gratitude to Roberta Flack [for] hearing ...
Flack transformed the song from a pop/folk tune to one that drew from a wide range of American music forms – pop, soul and jazz.
Another stunning example of Flack’s interpretive power, and of her role in curating a new pop songbook in the 1970s. She paints this modern standard — made famous with lachrymose sweetness by the ...