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Ms. Lauryn Hill Says She’ll ‘Forever Be Grateful’ for Roberta Flack

Hill said that Fugees wanted to honor the “beauty and brilliance” of Flack’s “Killing Me Softly With His Song.”

Nearly 30 years after covering a Roberta Flack classic as part of Fugees, Ms. Lauryn Hill honored the late soul musician in an Instagram tribute. Flack was an artist, a singer-songwriter, a pianist and composer who moved me and showed me through her own creative choices and standards what else was possible in the idiom of Soul.” On “Killing Me Softly,” Hill said that Flack “didn’t just write” the iconic record but made it so that Fugees entered “household phenomena.” “We wanted to honor the beauty and brilliance of this song and her performance of it to our generation.

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