Roberta Flack was laid to rest Monday, March 10, in New York City. The public memorial service, held at Harlem’s famed Abyssinian Baptist Church, celebrated the life of Flack, one of the most ...

The multi-Grammy award winner Roberta Flack has ... Over her career, Flack performed some original songs, but she is better known for her myriad of covers and performances of songs written for ...

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Lauryn Hill, Wyclef Jean, Stevie Wonder and more honored their friend Roberta ... moving cover with “Killing Me Softly with His Song,” causing the audience to cheer even louder. Flack ...

She donned two different (lower-key) outfits for her next two numbers, her own “(This Is) A Song for the Lonely,” which featured images ... Roberta Flack, who passed away last week, with a ...

who became a close friend and provided liner notes for a Flack album of Beatles covers, "Let It Be Roberta." She also devoted extensive time to the Roberta Flack School of Music, based in New York ...

For years, she lived on the same floor as John Lennon and Yoko Ono, the latter whom became a close friend who provided liner notes for Flack’s album of Beatles covers, Let It Be Roberta.

R&B legend Chris Jasper died on Feb. 24. He was 73. His family announced the news on his Facebook, noting that he was ...

Getty Images Over her six-decade ... black shirt as she strutted to her cover of Marc Cohn’s 1991 hit — which, ironically enough, was featured on her album “It’s a Man’s World.” ...

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“I adore Ms. Roberta Flack… Roberta Flack is [a] legend.” Then, Hill teamed up with her former Fugees bandmate, Wyclef Jean, to perform another standout cover from Flack ... track from his iconic ...

including in 2007 for her song “Baby” from her fourth solo album “The Art of Love & War.” She was 63. Grammy-winning singer and true pioneering force in R&B Roberta Flack passed away on ...