A look back at 10 great songs recorded by Roberta Flack, with 'Killing Me Softly' and 'The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face' ...

In an era where popular music is fluid, it is easy to forget the listening world was not always so open. Unless, of course, Roberta Flack’s career is closely examined. Flack, ...

Also from “First Take” is “Angelitos Negros,” performed entirely in ... The song would win again in the ‘90s, when hip-hop trio the Fugees’ would offer their masterful take on Flack ...

1969: “Angelitos Negros” Also from “First Take” is ... The song would win again in the ‘90s, when hip-hop trio the Fugees’ would offer their masterful take on Flack’s cover ...

That she could take on songs by writers of hit soulful jazz (“Compared to What” from Gene McDaniels), socially minded Venezuelan poetry (“Angelitos Negros” from Andrés Eloy Blanco ...