Roberta Flack, the dulcet-voiced singer best known for "Killing Me Softly with His Song," died Monday. She was 88.
In 1992, an estimated 40,000 people filled Long's Park to see Roberta Flack perform for free. The concert was part of the Long's Park Day of Music, an event hosted by the Long's Park Amphitheater Foundation.
The concert was part of a weekend of celebrations commemorating Lancaster city's 250th anniversary.
"How you doin'?" Flack yelled repeatedly during the show, according to the Intelligencer Journal. "I love you, Lancaster!"
Flack's set included "The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face," "Feel Like Makin' Love" and, of course, "Killing Me Softly" — a song that, just four years later, would reach a new generation through the Fugees' version.
The Sunday News interviewed Flack prior to her visit to Long's Park.
"I'm a very basic, earthy person," Flack told the Sunday News in 1992. "Nothing thrills me more than to entertain people who really want to hear me."
An interview with Roberta Flack in advance of her Long's Park concert appeared in the Aug. 2, 1992, edition of the Sunday News.
That 1992 concert wasn't Flack's only visit to Lancaster. Early in her career, in 1971, Flack performed at Franklin & Marshall College's Mayser Center, according to the Sunday News.
Before a 2005 concert at American Music Theatre, Roberta Flack spoke again to the Sunday News. At the time, she was excited about establishing a music school in Harlem.
"I realized I wanted to give something back to young people to build a music school," Flack said.
In the 1992 interview with the Sunday News, Flack reflected on her legacy —but made it clear that she didn't like being referred to as a "living legend."
"To claim the title 'legend' seems a little immodest," Flack said. "A legend is someone like Ella Fitzgerald or Billie Holiday. People look back at what you've done when they call you a legend. I might be on my way, but I'm not a legend — yet."
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