Roberta Flack will now shine her light down from heaven as the legendary songstress joined the angels on Feb. 24, 2025. The Grammy-winning singer died peacefully surrounded by her family this morning ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

The Teaneck Community Chorus will honor the late Roberta Flack at a tribute concert on Jan. 25 at 3 p.m. at Teaneck High ...

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, a classically trained pianist who taught in the D.C. school system before launching a singing career that made her one of the most popular performers of the 1970s, with such No. 1 hits ...

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 ...

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