The singer, pianist and four-time Grammy winner had two other No. 1 hits with "The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face" and "Feel ...

Roberta Flack's intimate vocal and musical style on "Killing Me Softly with His Song" and other hits made her one of the top ...

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

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

Flack won two Grammys for "Killing Me Softly with His Song": record of the year and best pop vocal performance, female in ...

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.

"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.

For decades, nobody really knew Lori Lieberman’s secret. Sure, the singer was the first to record “Killing Me Softly With His Song” in 1972, but it wasn’t until Roberta Flack covered it a ...

One singer made “Killing Me Softly” iconic, while the other was left out of its history. Later in life, they came together.

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