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She is known as a singer of soulful jazz and pop ballads. She was the daughter of a church organist (her father) and started playng piano early enough to get a music scholarship to Howard University. After a period of student teaching, she was discovered singing and playing jazz in a Washington nightclub by pianist Les McCann, who recommended her talents to Atlantic Records, in the late 1960s. After Hathaway committed suicide in 1979, she started touring with Peabo Bryson in 1980, scoring a hit duet: 'Tonight, I Celebrate My Love' (1983). Her song, "Killing Me Softly" (1969), was a tribute to American Pie singer Don McLean. Ranked #45 on VH1's Greatest Women of Rock N Roll In 1973 there were press reports that Flack was going to star in a film biography of blues singer Bessie Smith, with a script by 'Lonne Elder (III)', to be directed by Gordon Parks. The film was never made.