a music historian, author of Party Music and Funk: The Rhythm on the One, and host of History of Funk on KPFA. The discussion centered on the legacy of Roberta Flack, the Chicago sound, and the recent ...

The single propelled The Fugees 1996 sophomore album, “The Score ... is pulled in to acknowledge it’s quiet power. Roberta Flack’s quiet fire…I was introduced to Donny Hathaway through ...

On February 24, the music world lost a giant who helped create a “quiet storm” on 1970s radio. Roberta Flack hypnotized ...

Lo and behold, Miss Roberta Flack. I wasn’t so sick then,” he said. That incident ended their piano lessons, but Killgo and Flack’s relationship remained. Flack wrote the liner notes for “The ...

Lauryn Hill made an appearance at Roberta Flack’s memorial service, performing the late soul and R&B singer’s “Killing Me Softly With His Song,” accompanied by Stevie Wonder on harmonica ...

Actor Phylicia Rashad remembered first seeing Flack perform when she was a student at Howard University — to an audience that grew rapt by her quiet, steady voice. Flack lived comfortably with ...

It won the group a Grammy, two decades after Flack took home the record of the year trophy for the song. “I adore Ms. Roberta Flack ... that grew rapt by her quiet, steady voice.

Stevie Wonder and Rev. Al Sharpton were among the speakers and performers Monday at Grammy-winning soul singer Roberta Flack’s public memorial service in Manhattan. Flack, who died last month at ...