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 ...

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 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 ...

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 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, the singer and pianist who charted three No. 1 hits in the ’70s, has died. The North Carolina-born artist was 88. A press release noted that Flack “died peacefully surrounded by her ...

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 — ...

Singer Roberta Flack, who broke through as one of the most important and beloved singers of the 1970s and beyond with a sound that combined soul, jazz, rock and pop, died Monday at the age of 88. A ...

She was royalty from birth, descending from a mountain to share her musical gifts. Roberta Cleopatra Flack, born in Black Mountain, N.C., practiced playing the piano six hours a day as a child, ...

Roberta Flack, the singer and pianist who charted three No. 1 hits in the '70s, has died. The North Carolina-born artist was 88. A press release noted that Flack "died peacefully surrounded by her ...