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"Your music will never be more or less than you are as a human being," Nadia Boulanger told Quincy Jones. From then, he vowed to only bring authenticity.
Grammy-winning singer Roberta Flack is celebrated in a public memorial service with performances by Stevie Wonder and Lauryn Hill.
The music world gathered at New York’s Abyssinian Baptist Church to celebrate the life and mourn the loss of Roberta Flack.
The music world gathered at New York’s Abyssinian Baptist Church to celebrate the life and mourn the loss of Roberta Flack.
Lauryn Hill made an appearance at Roberta Flack’s memorial service, performing the late soul and R&B singer’s “Killing Me Softly With His Song,” accompanied by Stevie Wonder on harmonica ...
As people remember famed singer Roberta Flack, we meet the songwriter who wrote the lyrics to "Killing Me Softly": Lori Lieberman.
Roberta Flack had no flash or gimmick to propel her to stardom. A schoolteacher in her 30s when she achieved fame, she was a classically trained pianist with a low-key demeanor and a restrained ...
Lauryn Hill, Questlove, Tyler, the Creator, Jennifer Hudson and more remember Roberta Flack with social media tributes.
Let’s all be grateful that she instead chose to listen to the in-flight audio program, which included a pretty pop/folk ballad recorded by a then-20-year-old singer named Lori Lieberman.
The theory Roberta Flack was trained as a classical pianist and never lost her love for the European canon, so you can see why Lori Lieberman’s recording of Killing Me Softly caught her ear.
Lauryn Hill has penned a tribute to the late Roberta Flack, whose "Killing Me Softly With His Song" inspired the hit version recorded by the Fugees.