NEW YORK — In an era where popular music is fluid, it is easy to forget the listening world was not always so open. Unless, of course, Roberta Flack's career is closely examined. Flack, whose intimate ...
Roberta Flack, an award-winning R&B vocalist, and songwriter who topped the charts in her time, died on Monday (Feb. 24). Roberta Flack earned her first big break after actor and director Clint ...
Roberta Flack has been singing in a way that plucks at the heartstrings since 1969, when she recorded the breakthrough song "The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face." She followed that hit with many, many ...
Legendary musician Roberta Flack, a chart-topping force in '70s pop and R&B, known for soulful hits like "The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face" and "Killing Me Softly With His Song," has died at 88.
In all its incarnations—book, movie, and, starting this weekend, TV show—music has been an important part of the story of About a Boy. Here, TV show creator Jason Katims and Chris Weitz, who ...
In 1973, just as folk and soul were becoming more romantic and intimate, Roberta Flack released “Killing Me Softly With His Song.” Inspired by singer Lori Lieberman’s original a year earlier, Ms.
NEW YORK — Stevie Wonder, the Reverend Al Sharpton and the Nebulous String Quartet from Berklee College of Music will help celebrate the life and legacy of Roberta Flack at a memorial Monday in New ...