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 ...

Roberta Flack could have brought a book or a magazine to read on an American Airlines flight from L.A. back home to New York in 1972. She could have watched the in-flight movie or even taken a nap.

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Credit: Getty Images Soul and R&B icon Roberta Flack passed away earlier this week at the age of ...

Roberta Flack's "Killing Me Softly With His Song" debuts on two U.K. charts, joining a growing list of posthumous wins for the late music legend. LOS ANGELES - JANUARY 15: Roberta Flack, Grammy winner ...

Lauryn Hill, Wyclef Jean, Stevie Wonder and more honored their friend Roberta Flack with emotional performances at her recent memorial service in New York. The late singer and pianist died at the age ...

Grammy award-winning singer Roberta Flack, who crooned hits like “Killing Me Softly with His Song” and “The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face,” has died, a representative confirmed to NBC News. She was ...

She was royalty from birth, descending from a mountain to share her musical gifts. Roberta Cleopatra Flack, born in Black Mountain, N.C., practiced playing the piano six hours a day as a child, ...

Legendary pop/R&B vocalist Roberta Flack, who was launched to stardom in the early ’70s by the Grammy-winning hits “The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face” and “Killing Me Softly With His Song,” has died ...

Roberta Flack, the gifted rhythm and blues singer and pianist, passed away February 24 from cardiac arrest. She was 88 years old. Flack developed ALS, otherwise known as Lou Gehrig’s disease, in the ...

Flack’s music was introduced to a new generation thanks to the Fugees and Lauryn Hill, whose cover of “Killing Me Softly with His Song” topped the charts in 1996. Grammy award-winning singer Roberta ...