‘Killing Me Softly With His Song’ Fugees, Lauryn Hill (1996) “Killing Me Softly with His Song” is Fugees’ reinterpretation of the 1970s standard, released in 1996 as a single from their album The Score on Ruffhouse and Columbia Records, with Lauryn Hill on lead vocals. Their version reworks the original composition by Charles Fox and Norman Gimbel into a hip‑hop and soul blend, with production centered around Salaam Remi and the group that adds boom‑bap drums, subtle bass, and crowd‑like ad‑libs to frame Hill’s performance. The single became an international hit, topping charts in multiple countries, becoming one of the defining records of the 1990s, and later winning the Grammy Award for Best R&B Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocals. The music video places the group in a movie theater, cutting between performance shots and everyday scenes, which visually reinforces the song’s theme of being emotionally overwhelmed by another person’s music while keeping the focus on Lauryn Hi...