Flack first donned the Hot 100 crown with breakthrough hit “The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face,” featured on her now platinum-certified 1969 debut album for Atlantic, First Take, and in the 1971 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Here’s more from Soul Tracks: Chapter Two, hailed as “a great album” by All Music, resides at the intersection of “enlightened soul and contemporary singer-songwriter pop,” observes noted critic ...

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 ...

After her Grammy tribute, Roberta Flack returns three classics to Billboard's R&B Digital Song Sales chart, led by “The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face.” ...

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 ...

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 — ...

Hill had the entire crowd on their feet for the tribute medley ...

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 ...