I was in bed checking my email and doomscrolling when I learned that the legendary Roberta Flack passed, just a few weeks after her 88th birthday. Flack’s influence on R&B and Quiet Storm has been towering — with her best known single “Killing Me Softly with His Song” famously covered by the Fugees back in the 90s.
Flack is also the first artist to win Grammys in consecutive years for Record of the Year for 1972’s “The First Time I Ever Saw Your Face,” and 1973’s “Killing Me Softly.”
Long live, Roberta Flack! Long live, Roberta Flack!
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