Roberta Flack, the R&B singer behind the landmark hits 'The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face' and 'Killing Me Softly With His ...

Roberta Flack, best known for her '70s hits 'Killing Me Softly' (later covered by the Fugees) and 'The First Time Ever I Saw ...

The Grammy Award-winning songstress, Roberta Flack was born in Black Mountain on February 10, 1937. However, she was raised ...

The Grammy Award-winner also hit No. 1 on Billboard's Hot 100, with "The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face" and "Feel Like ...

The singer behind timeless ballads "Killing Me Softly with His Song" and "The Closer I Get to You," died Monday at the age of 88. She had battled ALS, commonly known as Lou Gehrig’s disease ...

"Killing Me Softly with His Song" was inspired by a poem Lieberman wrote after hearing Don McClean perform "Empty Chairs" Paul Bergen/Redferns; Jim Spellman/WireImage Lori Lieberman is remembering ...

Roberta Flack so completely owned “Killing Me Softly with His Song” — her signature tune that topped the charts in 1973 — it’s hard to believe that it wasn’t actually her song originally.

Flack was one of the top music stars of the '70s, with three No. 1 singles in the span of two years: "The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face," "Killing Me Softly with His Song" and "Feel Like Makin ...

From hits like “Killing Me Softly With His Song” and “The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face” to era-defining Donny Hathaway ...

With majestic anthems like “Killing Me Softly” and “The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face,” Ms. Flack, a former schoolteacher, ...

In 1973, she matched both achievements with "Killing Me Softly With His Song," becoming the first artist ... player that at age 15 she received a full scholarship to Howard, the historically ...

NEW YORK — Roberta Flack, the Grammy-winning singer and pianist whose intimate vocal and musical style on “Killing Me Softly ...