Lori Lieberman, Who First Sang 'Killing Me Softly with His Song,' Reacts to Roberta Flack's Death: 'Endless Gratitude'
Flack won two Grammys for "Killing Me Softly with His Song": record of the year and best pop vocal performance, female in ...
A music professor breaks down Roberta Flack's Killing Me Softly with His Song
Roberta Flack did not write Killing Me Softly. There is some dispute about who did. Two music industry veterans were involved ...
How Roberta Flack helped Lori Lieberman finally stake her claim to ‘Killing Me Softly’
One singer made “Killing Me Softly” iconic, while the other was left out of its history. Later in life, they came together.
Lauryn Hill Pays Tribute to Roberta Flack: ‘One of the Purest Voices’
Flack "moved me and showed me through her own creative choices and standards what else was possible within the idiom of Soul, ...
How Roberta Flack made ‘Killing Me Softly’ her own — and changed original singer Lori Lieberman’s life: ‘I have endless gratitude’
What she gave to that song was … something I never, ever could have imagined,” said Lori Lieberman, who originally released ...
Lauryn Hill Will 'Forever Be Grateful' to Late Singer Roberta Flack: 'Rest in Grace Beloved One'
Lauryn Hill and the Fugees covered Roberta Flack's "Killing Me Softly with His Song," bringing the ballad to a new generation ...
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How Roberta Flack helped Lori Lieberman finally stake her claim to ‘Killing Me Softly’
For decades, nobody really knew Lori Lieberman’s secret. Sure, the singer was the first to record “Killing Me Softly With His Song” in 1972, but it wasn’t until Roberta Flack covered it a ...
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How Roberta Flack made ‘Killing Me Softly’ her own — and changed original singer Lori Lieberman’s life: ‘I have endless gratitude’
“It was a guitar-based folk song,” Lieberman, 73, told The Post. “My version was a small folk song.” Although bonded by “Killing Me Softly” since the early ’70s, Lori Lieberman and ...
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Lori Lieberman, Who First Sang 'Killing Me Softly with His Song,' Reacts to Roberta Flack's Death: 'Endless Gratitude'
"Killing Me Softly with His Song" was inspired by a poem Lieberman wrote after hearing Don McClean perform "Empty Chairs" Paul Bergen/Redferns; Jim Spellman/WireImage Lori Lieberman is remembering ...