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 ...

Singer Roberta Flack died yesterday at the age of 88. She won two Record of the Year Grammys in a row in the 1970's with "The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face" and "Killing Me Softly with His Song." ...

Parasocial relationships are often explored through the lens of celebrities and social media influencers, but well before our current era of online connection, Lori Lieberman captured this feeling of ...

"Killing Me Softly with His Song" was inspired by a poem Lieberman wrote after hearing Don McClean perform "Empty Chairs" ...

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 so completely owned “Killing Me Softly with His Song” — her signature tune that topped the charts in 1973 — ...