Roberta Flack hypnotized audiences with epically slow ballads and helped define a new approach to R&B and soul music. (The new format was named after Smokey Robinson’s 1975 album A Quiet Storm.) Like ...

Roberta Flack could have brought a book or a magazine to read on an American Airlines flight from L.A. back home to New York in 1972. She could have watched the in-flight movie or even taken a nap.

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Credit: Getty Images Soul and R&B icon Roberta Flack passed away earlier this week at the age of ...

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. In fact, the ...

Lauryn Hill, Wyclef Jean, Stevie Wonder and more honored their friend Roberta Flack with emotional performances at her recent memorial service in New York. The late singer and pianist died at the age ...

She was royalty from birth, descending from a mountain to share her musical gifts. Roberta Cleopatra Flack, born in Black Mountain, N.C., practiced playing the piano six hours a day as a child, ...

Legendary pop/R&B vocalist Roberta Flack, who was launched to stardom in the early ’70s by the Grammy-winning hits “The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face” and “Killing Me Softly With His Song,” has died ...

Lauryn Hill and the Fugees covered Roberta Flack's "Killing Me Softly with His Song," bringing the ballad to a new generation Sarah Morris/Getty; Ann Limongello/Disney General Entertainment Content ...

Roberta Flack — seen performing for a television studio audience in 1973 — possessed one of the most singular singing voices of her era. (ABC Photo Archives/Disney General Entertainment Content via ...

NEW YORK (AP) — A public memorial service bursting with music, including planned performances by Stevie Wonder and a surprise one by Lauryn Hill and Wyclef Jean of the Fugees, celebrated the life and ...