Once you put into perspective that chart-topping pop and R&B vocalist-composer Roberta Flack started her career accompanying opera vocalists on piano at one club, performing quiet jazz and blues at ...

Roberta Flack was one of the essential voices of the Seventies, with her smooth, soft-spoken, slow-burning soul style. She specialized in hypnotic ballads like “Killing Me Softly With His Song,” “The ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Hugh McIntyre covers music, with a focus on the global charts. Four Roberta Flack albums chart in the U.K. posthumously, led by ...

One of the supreme voices of the 1970s and a master of revelatory reinterpretation has died at 88. By Ben Sisario At a New York concert in 1997, Roberta Flack referred to her voice as a “blessed ...

Roberta Flack, the Grammy-winning singer and pianist whose intimate vocal and musical style on "Killing Me Softly with His Song," "The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face" and other hits made her one of ...