Roberta Flack’s ‘Killing Me Softly with His Song’ spent five weeks at No. 1 in 1973, won Grammys and later became a worldwide hit again with the Fugees.

One of the most haunting ballads ever recorded was dominating the Billboard Hot 100 exactly 53 years ago today. The song ...

What was Roberta Flack’s Number-One Song? “The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face” was Roberta Flack’s number-one hit, topping the Billboard Hot 100 in 1972. Casey focuses on writing about singers and ...

In 1971 Don McLean’s performance of “Empty Chairs” at the Troubadour sparked an intense emotional experience that would quickly change the path of Lori Lieberman’s life. Lieberman connected so deeply ...

You’ve heard Roberta Flack sing “Killing Me Softly With His Song” a million times, but it wasn’t even originally her song. Songwriting team Charles Fox and Norman Gimble wrote the song for singer Lori ...

Lori Lieberman is remembering Roberta Flack. Speaking to The New York Post, Lieberman, who was the first to sing "Killing Me Softly with His Song," shared how Flack, who died on Monday, Feb. 24 at 88 ...

In November of 1971, 19-year-old singer Lori Lieberman was coaxed by a friend into seeing McLean perform at the Troubadour in Los Angeles and found herself utterly moved by the “American Pie” singer’s ...

How Roberta Flack made "Killing Me Softly With His Song" her own. 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 ...