Mon, February 24, 2025 at 11:07 PM UTC “We are heartbroken that the glorious Roberta Flack passed away this morning, February 24, 2025,” her spokesperson Elaine Schock said in the official press ...

With a voice both smoky and silken, Roberta Flack carved a distinguished impression. The singer behind timeless ballads "Killing Me Softly with His Song" and "The Closer I Get to You," died Monday at ...

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 hypnotized audiences with epically slow ballads and helped define a new approach to R&B and soul music. (The new format was named after Smokey Robinson’s 1975 album A Quiet Storm.) Like ...

Grammy Award winner Roberta Flack, whose tranquil ballads and 1970s songs such as “Killing Me Softly With His Song” and “The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face” established her as a timeless R&B singer ...

Editor’s note: The following article is an op-ed, and the views expressed are the author’s own. Read more opinions on theGrio. Roberta Flack was one of my favorite singers, so there’s a bit of poetry ...

Roberta Flack used her upbringing as a classically trained pianist to redefine the textural and emotional terms of modern soul music. The singer, who died Monday at 88, was a master interpreter and an ...

1970s hit maker Roberta Flack is back with a new album after spending more than a decade off the radar. But don’t expect new R&B-pop tracks from the classic soul artist on Let It Be Roberta. Flack ...

Between her smoky voice and cooing ballads, Roberta Flack distinguished herself as a soulful standout. The singer died Monday. She was 88. A statement from her representative noted that Flack "died ...

When a beloved singer dies, the best way to comfort yourself is to look back on their best music. Roberta Flack gave us some of the best R&B songs of the 1970s. This raises an interesting question — ...