'Killing me softly' singer Roberta Flack dies

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Roberta Flack in 1971. Photo: Getty Images Roberta Flack, the silky-voiced Grammy-winning singer whose sultry ballads "The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face" and "Killing Me Softly With His Song" topped the charts in the 1970s, has died at the age of 88, her publicist said.

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