As people remember famed singer Roberta Flack, we meet the songwriter who wrote the lyrics to "Killing Me Softly": Lori ...

Rapper and singer Lauryn Hill paid tribute to Roberta Flack at a public memorial service held in New York’s Abyssinian Baptist Church on March 10, 2025. Flack passed away on February 24, 2025.

Roberta Flack passed away, according to the Associated Press. The Grammy award-winning musician was known for her song, "The First Time I Ever Saw Your Face." ...

Roberta Flack did not write Killing Me Softly. There is some dispute about who did. Two music industry veterans were involved: composer Charles Fox (who also wrote a lot of TV theme songs, including ...

Lauryn Hill honored Roberta Flack with resounding rendition of “Killing Me Softly” at her public memorial service on March 9.

While Lieberman’s original wasn’t a big hit ... Both versions of “Killing Me Softly” — Flack and Fugees’ — landed on Rolling Stone’s 500 Greatest Songs list.

as someone who made every song she approached original." In the mid-'70s, Flack's pace in the studio slowed slightly as she scored for film and TV, worked in music publishing and record producing ...

“Killing Me Softly With His Song” is iconic in its own right, but any time I hear it, I am transported to the passenger seat of my mom’s car, Flack’s voice thundering through the speakers ...

“For much longer interpreters were the greats, and Roberta Flack stands with Sinatra, with Ella Fitzgerald, with so many great interpreters of the 20th century, as someone who made every song she ...

Flack "moved me and showed me through her own creative choices and standards what else was possible within the idiom of Soul," Fugees singer writes ...