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.

In 1996, the Fugees released their cover of “Killing Me Softly With His Song,” a song that Roberta Flack made famous in 1973. It became the Fugees’ biggest-ever hit, and it rocketed Ms. Lauryn Hill, ...