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 ...

Legendary soul singer Roberta Flack has died at the age of 88, it’s been confirmed. She’s said to have died peacefully, surrounded by her family. Born in 1937, Flack grew up in a musical family, and ...

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 ...

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 ...

“I didn’t try to be a soul singer, a jazz singer, a blues singer – no category,” Flack said in 2020. “My music is my expression of what I feel and believe in a moment.” A classically trained pianist ...