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, the gifted rhythm and blues singer and pianist, passed away February 24 from cardiac arrest. She was 88 years old. Flack developed ALS, otherwise known as Lou Gehrig’s disease, in ...

Lauryn Hill and Wyclef Jean, two-thirds of the hit rap group, The Fugees, made a surprise appearance at the Roberta Flack Memorial ... An Instagram account for the Donny Hathaway Legacy Project ...

Roberta Flack’s quiet fire…I was introduced to Donny Hathaway through Roberta Flack.” Lauryn spoke through sniffles and pushed through a tribute written with love, reverence, and respect ...

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All of this is to say that I first encountered Roberta Flack’s music through ... most prominently opposite Donny Hathaway in the seventies, and Peabo Bryson in the eighties.

Coming off the top five pop and R&B chart success of the iconic duets album Roberta Flack & Donny Hathaway, Flack captured the singles throne once again in 1973 with her career-cementing ballad ...

Silky-voiced balladeer dies aged 88 Flack was a classically trained pianist who defied musical genres She sang 'The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face' and ...

In the early 1980s, when the hits had dried up, a series of duets with Bryson, notably Tonight I Celebrate My Love, brought her back to the charts. Her last big seller was a synth-soul double act with ...

upon the 50th anniversary of the million-selling “Roberta Flack and Donny Hathaway” album. “He could play anything, sing anything. Our musical synergy was unlike (anything) I’d had before or since.” ...