Roberta Flack was the daughter of a church organist and started playing piano early enough to get a music scholarship and eventual degree from Howard University. Her first two albums at Atlantic were well-received but produced no hit singles; however, that all changed when a version of Ewan MacColl’s “The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face,” from her first LP, was included in the soundtrack of Play Misty for Me. Flack followed this hit with the first of several duets with Howard classmate Donny Hathaway, “Where Is the Love.” “Killing Me Softly With His Song” became Flack’s second number one hit in 1973, and after topping the charts again in 1974 with “Feel Like Makin’ Love,” Flack took a break from performing to concentrate on recording and charitable causes. She charted several more times over the next few years, but a major blow struck in 1979 when Hathaway committed suicide. Devastated, Flack was forced to find another partner and eventually did in Peabo Bryson, with whom she toured in 1980. The two recorded together in 1983, scoring a hit duet with “Tonight, I Celebrate My Love.”
- “Killing Me Softly with His Song”
- Fugees: Killing Me Softly
- “The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face”
- Mastersafe: Stars
- “Compared to What?”
- Lord Finesse: Save That S–t
- “Hey, That’s No Way to Say Goodbye“
- Lil’ Kim: Queen B—h
- Mary J. Blige: I Can Love You
- “I Told Jesus“
- Fatal Hussein: Getto Star
- “Our Ages of Our Hearts“
- Problemz: Society
- “Sunday & Sister Jones“
- Penthouse Players Clique: Handle Yo Bizness
- “Jesse“
- Puff Daddy: Pain
- “This Time I’ll Be Sweeter“
- Paula Perry: Extra, Extra
- “Be Real Black for Me”
- MOP: World Famous
- Scarface: My Block
- “I (Who Have Nothing)”
- OC ft Fat Joe: 50 MC’s Again
- “Back Together Again”
- Biz Markie: Spring Again
- “If only for one night”
- Terror Squad: Take me home
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