Roberta Flack in 1969: she went on to win consecutive Grammys for Record of the Year - Jack Robinson/Hulton Archive/Getty Images Roberta Flack, who has died aged 88, redefined the possibilities of ...

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Roberta Flack, the fearless singer and pianist who made Grammy history with the sublime No. 1 hits “The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face” and “Killing Me Softly With His Song,” died Monday in New York.

Roberta Flack holds the Grammy award for "Killing Me Softly With His Song" with singer Isaac Hayes standing nearby at the Grammy Awards in Los Angeles on March 4, 1974. Flack performed in several ...

Musician Roberta Flack performs during a concert in Calvia, on the Balearic island of Mallorca, in July 2006. Flack, the silky-voiced Grammy-winning singer whose sultry ballads “The First Time Ever I ...

On Monday, March 10, Stevie Wonder and Lauryn Hill were among the musical performers who paid tribute to the late Roberta Flack during the Grammy Award-winning singer’s memorial service at the ...

"The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face," is one of those songs that's pretty much guaranteed to swell the emotions. But when acclaimed vocalist Natalie Douglas sings it next weekend during her Roberta ...

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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 ...

A representative for Flack did not share a cause of death, but the singer had been battling amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, or ALS. Musically gifted from a young age, Flack won a scholarship to Howard ...