Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Roberta Flack was inspired to remake "Killing Me Softly with His Song" after hearing Lori Lieberman's original on a flight from LA ...

The Grammy Award-winner also hit No. 1 on Billboard's Hot 100, with "The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face" and "Feel Like Makin' Love" Ilana Kaplan is a Staff Editor at PEOPLE. She has been working at ...

"Killing Me Softly with His Song" was inspired by a poem Lieberman wrote after hearing Don McClean perform "Empty Chairs" Paul Bergen/Redferns; Jim Spellman/WireImage Lori Lieberman is remembering ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. 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 ...

Only a few rare songs ever turn into pop classics. But this one turned into a classic twice. “Killing Me Softly with His Song” has one of the longest, weirdest stories in pop history. In the 1970s, it ...

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, the Grammy-winning singer and pianist whose intimate vocal and musical style on "Killing Me Softly with His Song," "The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face" and other hits made her one of ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Roberta Flack, the Grammy-winning singer and pianist whose intimate vocal and musical style made her one of the top recordings artists of the 1970s and an influential performer long ...

Since Roberta Flack’s death in February, sales of her hit song “Killing Me Softly with His Song” have shot up. Flack popularized the song, bringing it to new audiences. But her version wasn’t the ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Roberta Flack, the Grammy-winning singer and pianist whose intimate vocal and musical style made her one of the top recordings artists of the 1970s and an influential performer long ...

Roberta Flack, the Grammy Award-winning singer best known for “Killing Me Softly With His Song,” has died. She was 88. “We are heartbroken that the glorious Roberta Flack passed away this morning, ...

Roberta Flack, the Grammy-winning singer, songwriter and pianist known for “Killing Me Softly With His Song,” has died. She was 88. “We are heartbroken that the glorious Roberta Flack passed away this ...