Once you put into perspective that chart-topping pop and R&B vocalist-composer Roberta Flack started her career accompanying opera vocalists on piano at one club, performing quiet jazz and blues at ...

One of the supreme voices of the 1970s and a master of revelatory reinterpretation has died at 88. By Ben Sisario At a New York concert in 1997, Roberta Flack referred to her voice as a “blessed ...

Roberta Flack used her upbringing as a classically trained pianist to redefine the textural and emotional terms of modern soul music. The singer, who died Monday at 88, was a master interpreter and an ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Hugh McIntyre covers music, with a focus on the global charts. Four Roberta Flack albums chart in the U.K. posthumously, led by ...