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 ...

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 ...

Between her smoky voice and cooing ballads, Roberta Flack distinguished herself as a soulful standout. The singer died Monday. She was 88. A statement from her representative noted that Flack "died ...

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 ...

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, a North Carolina native, Grammy-winning singer and pianist, died Monday at age 88. Her intimate vocal and musical style made her one of the top recordings artists of the 1970s.

After being found guilty of prostitution charges in July, a judge has handed a sentence down to Diddy. 12 hours ago “I didn’t try to be a soul singer, a jazz singer, a blues singer – no category,” ...

Publicist Elaine Schock announced to the Associated Press that Flack died at home surrounded by her family. A cause of death was not disclosed, but the four-time Grammy winner announced in 2022 she ...