Flack reached her breakthrough moment with "First Take" which she released in 1969 and included "The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face" in the same album. Clint Eastwood's 1971 movie "Play Misty for Me" ...

An all-time vocal performance and a bright spotlight of a Clint Eastwood movie synch gave Roberta Flack her long-overdue breakout hit and first Billboard Hot 100 No. 1. By Andrew Unterberger ...

The Grammy Award-winner also hit No. 1 on Billboard's Hot 100, with "The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face" and "Feel Like Makin' Love" Ilana Kaplan is a Staff Editor at PEOPLE. She has been working ...

The R&B singer Roberta Flack, best known for the hits The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face and Killing Me Softly With His Song, has died at the age of 88. "We are heartbroken that the glorious ...

With majestic anthems like “Killing Me Softly” and “The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face,” Ms. Flack, a former schoolteacher, became one of the most widely heard artists of the 1970s.

“When you express your feelings about the first time you ever see a great love, you don’t rush the story,” the legendary Roberta Flack told Songwriter Universe in 2020 — a sentiment ...