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.

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 ...

Big Star’s “#1 Record” and Eddie Floyd’s “Knock on Wood” are among the 13 recordings inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame.

The song was named record of the year and best female pop vocal performance at the 1974 Grammys ceremony, and was inducted ...

It would net her another two Grammy awards in 1974, for Record of the Year and Best Pop Vocal Performance by a female artist. Across her career, Flack also interpreted a wide variety of artists ...

Flack was known for award-winning songs such as ‘Killing Me Softly With His Song’ and many more and has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

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 ...

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Her version of “Killing Me Softly With His Song” hit Number One in 1973 and went on to win Record of the Year at the 1974 Grammys — making Flack the first artist to win the category two ...

Roberta Flack was the first artist to receive the Grammy Award for Record of the Year for two consecutive years 1973 and 1974. FILE - Roberta Flack appears backstage at the Grammy Awards in Los ...