With majestic anthems like “Killing Me Softly” and “The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face,” Ms. Flack, a former schoolteacher, ...

Another stunning example of Flack’s interpretive power, and of her role in curating a new pop songbook in the 1970s. She paints this modern standard — made famous with lachrymose sweetness by the ...

R&B superstar best known for songs such as 'Killing Me Softly' and 'The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face' had died at 88.

The longest-running music festival in history has been happening annually for decades now, with its stage being graced by the ...

R oberta Flack, the Grammy-winning singer and pianist whose intimate vocal and musical style made her one of the top ...

A onetime D.C. teacher, she won back-to-back Grammy Awards for “The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face” and “Killing Me Softly ...

Roberta Flack, the R&B musician whose singing helped define the subgenre of “quiet storm” in the 1970s, is dead at 88. Flack ...

NEW YORK >> Roberta Flack, the silky-voiced Grammy-winning singer whose sultry ballads “The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face” ...

The late ‘Killing Me Softly with His Song’ vocalist died when she was 88 years old in February 2025. Learn more about her ...

Roberta Flack, the singer-songwriter behind the landmark hits 'The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face' and 'Killing Me Softly ...