Throughout her career, Flack notched six Top 10 pop hits and 10 Top 10 R&B hits ... in many ways, the perfect soul act of the early ’70s. Her pretty, sensuous ballads appealed to the Burt ...

Roberta Flack, whose smooth, rich, supple and mesmerizing vocals in the 1970 made instant classics of such Grammy-winning hits as "The First ... style that melded pop, soul, jazz, folk, the ...

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

Economically summarizing her appeal in “The Rough Guide to Soul and R&B,” Peter Shapiro ... Flack continued to log chart hits through the ’70s, topping herself with the double-barreled ...