“Killing Me Softly With His Song,” was written by Norman Gimbel and Charles Fox. Gimbel was then best-known for writing English-language lyrics to such global hits as “The Girl From Ipanema ...

“By the time she had landed she had listened to Killing Me Softly about four times and scribbled down all the lyrics and all of the chord changes, and she felt that she could do something with ...

A look back at 10 great songs recorded by Roberta Flack, with 'Killing Me Softly' and 'The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face' ...

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 ...

Flack sang like she had been holding on to a secret that was waiting to become yours.