Softly - Killing Me

While Lieberman’s version failed to chart, discovered it while on a flight from Los Angeles to New York. She heard the original on the in-flight audio program and was immediately captivated. The back-story to 'Killing Me Softly' - Luis Dias

"Killing Me Softly With His Song" is one of the most enduring masterpieces in popular music, a rare track that has become a definitive classic in two different genres across two different generations. Originally a folk-inspired ballad, it evolved into a soulful anthem and later a hip-hop staple, proving its universal emotional resonance. The Spark: A Night at the Troubadour killing me softly

Lieberman scribbled her feelings onto a napkin and shared them with veteran lyricist . Gimbel combined her notes with a title already in his notebook—"Killing Us Softly with Some Blues," a phrase inspired by the 1960s novel Hopscotch by Julio Cortázar. Composer Charles Fox then set the lyrics to music, and Lieberman released the original version in 1972. Roberta Flack’s Soulful Transformation (1973) While Lieberman’s version failed to chart, discovered it