US singer Roberta Flack used “her artistry, her talent, her innovation and her heart” to expose the song Killing Me Softly With His Song to the world, the writer of the track has said.
“My version was climbing up the charts, slowly, but climbing up the charts when Roberta Flack was travelling, I believe it was from New York to LA, and on the airplane, in the inflight system, she heard my song,” she said.
“At any rate, Roberta really responded to the song and how it related to her, and turned my little song into something that, honestly, no one had at that point heard.”.
“She was performing at, I think it was the Forum in LA, and she had been kind of practising the song with the band that she was performing with, and at the end of one concert, she had an encore, and she said to her band members, ‘I don’t know what to do’.
“And when she landed she called her producer, Joel Dorn, and told him that she had a song that she really loved, and in time would really like to record it.
