Roberta Flack was inspired to remake "Killing Me Softly with His Song" after hearing Lori Lieberman's original on a flight from LA to New York. In fact, the classic — which won Flack her second ...

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 ...

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 ...

US singer Roberta Flack used “her artistry, her talent, her innovation and her heart” to expose the song Killing Me Softly With His Song to the world, the writer of the track has said. The soul star, ...

Roberta Flack discovered Lori Lieberman’s “Killing Me Softly With His Song” on a plane from L.A. to New York, and made it her own. “I was not limited to just taking the song off of the page of music,” ...

Flack transformed the song from a pop/folk tune to one that drew from a wide range of American music forms – pop, soul and jazz. By Paul Grein Forever No. 1 is a Billboard series that pays special ...

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 ...

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 ...

"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 ...

Roberta Flack so completely owned “Killing Me Softly with His Song” — her signature tune that topped the charts in 1973 — it’s hard to believe that it wasn’t actually her song originally. In fact, the ...

Grammy-winning singer Roberta Flack, whose work includes “The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face” and “Killing Me Softly With His Song,” has died. A representative for Flack confirmed her passing to NBC ...