It was a guitar-based folk song,” Lieberman, 73, said about the 1971 song that Flack recorded in January 1973. "My version was a small folk song."Flack won two Grammys for "Killing Me Softly with His Song": record of the year and best pop vocal performance,

One singer made “Killing Me Softly” iconic, while the other was left out of its history. Later in life, they came together.

"What she gave to that song was ... something I never, ever could have imagined,” said Lori Lieberman, who originally released "Killing Me Softly with His Song" in 1972.