Mellifluous vocalist scored hits with "The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face" and "Killing Me Softly with His Song" ...

Singer Roberta Flack, whose signature voice and soulful interpretations of songs such as "Killing Me Softly with His Song" catapulted her to the top of the charts and influenced generations ...

Roberta Flack, the Grammy-winning singer and pianist whose intimate vocal and musical style on "Killing Me Softly with His Song," "The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face" and other hits made her one ...

Roberta Flack in 1969. “Perhaps no other mainstream musical artist of the 1970s more complexly brought Black nationalism into discourse with European classical aesthetics,” one scholar said ...

Once you put into perspective that chart-topping pop and R&B vocalist-composer Roberta Flack started her career accompanying ...

Between her smoky voice and cooing ballads, Roberta Flack distinguished herself as a soulful standout. The singer died Monday. She was 88. A statement from her representative noted that Flack ...

Grammy Award winner Roberta Flack, whose tranquil ballads and 1970s songs such as “Killing Me Softly With His Song” and “The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face” established her as a timeless ...

Roberta Flack’s rise to musical fame In 1969, Flack’s first album, First Take , was released. It had eight songs, with one—“Ballad of the Sad Young Men”—being exactly seven minutes long.

Roberta Flack, a classically trained pianist who taught in the D.C. school system before launching a singing career that made her one of the most popular performers of the 1970s, with such No. 1 ...

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 ...

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 ...