Lauryn Hill paid tribute to Roberta Flack in a heartfelt Instagram post. Hill covered Flack's 1973 song "Killing Me Softly with His Song," bringing the breakup ballad to a younger audience in 1996.
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 ...
The singer won four Grammys and was honored ... A PBS documentary about her life, "American Masters: Roberta Flack," was released in January 2023. "I've always tried to express myself musically ...
Roberta Flack, the gifted rhythm and blues singer and pianist ... and a sharp growth in the wealth of a privileged African-American social layer. Meanwhile the worsening conditions for broad ...
Legendary pop/R&B vocalist Roberta Flack ... Ewan MacColl and cut by the American folk-pop act the Kingston Trio in 1962 — supplied popular liftoff for Flack after Eastwood used it behind ...
NEW YORK >> Roberta Flack, the silky-voiced Grammy-winning singer whose sultry ballads “The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face” ...
Singer Roberta Flack, whose signature voice and soulful interpretations catapulted her to the top of the charts and influenced generations, has died. She was 88.
Roberta Flack, a North Carolina native, Grammy-winning singer and pianist ... job teaching music and English at H.B. Sugg, an African American high school. Shortly after she returned the D.C ...
On this show, we’re celebrating the great singer Roberta Flack, and the many songs she helped introduce into the American Songbook in the 1970s. Roberta Flack is a hard artist to categorize.
Roberta Flack, the renowned singer and pianist whose timeless hits ... She also served as a spokesperson for the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals for many years.
Legendary pop/R&B vocalist Roberta Flack, who was launched ... by English folksinger Ewan MacColl and cut by the American folk-pop act the Kingston Trio in 1962 — supplied popular liftoff for Flack ...