Roberta Flack, a staple on the R&B charts throughout the '70s and '80s, has died at 88. She suffered from ALS, commonly known as Lou Gehrig’s disease.

The song was named record of the year and best female pop vocal performance at the 1974 Grammys ceremony, and was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 1999. The Fugees’ 1996 cover, featuring ...

By 1974, she had scored three No. 1 singles: "The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face," which stayed at the top of the chart for six weeks in 1972 and won both Record and Song of the Year Grammys ...

Roberta Flack, the Grammy-winning soul singer best known for her celebrated interpretations of romantic ballads like “Killing ...

According to her publicist Elaine Schock, Flack passed away at her New York home surrounded by her family. In 2022, Flack announced that she had ALS, commonly known as Lou Gehrig’s disease.

looks on at the Grammy Awards in Los Angeles on March 4, 1974. – AP Photo/Harold Filan, File She was a classically trained pianist discovered in the late 1960s by jazz musician Les McCann ...

The Grammy Award-winning songstress, Roberta Flack was born in Black Mountain on February 10, 1937. However, she was raised in Arlington, Va.

The song, which earned Flack Grammys in 1974 for record of the year and best female pop vocal performance, also landed the Fugees a Grammy in 1997 for best R&B performance by a duo or group with ...