Five time Grammy-winning singer dies at age 88
Roberta Flack, a Grammy-winning R&B singer who topped charts for years, died Monday at age 88.
NEW YORK â Grammy-winning musician Roberta Flack, who topped charts in the 1970s and was influential long after, has died. She was 88.
Flack died at home on Monday surrounded by her family, publicist Elaine Schock said in a statement, cited by Variety. Flack had announced in 2022 she had ALS, commonly known as Lou Gehrigâs disease, and could no longer sing.
âWe are heartbroken that the glorious Roberta Flack passed away this morning, February 24, 2025,â read the statement. âShe died peacefully surrounded by her family. Roberta broke boundaries and records. She was also a proud educator.â
In her 30s Flack became an overnight star after Clint Eastwood used âThe First Time I Ever Saw Your Faceâ as the soundtrack for one of cinemaâs more memorable love scenes, between the actor and Donna Mills in his 1971 film âPlay Misty for Me,â The Associated Press said.
In the song, Flackâs graceful soprano floated over soft strings and piano. It topped the Billboard pop chart in 1972 and received a Grammy for record of the year.
âThe record label wanted to have it re-recorded with a faster tempo, but he said he wanted it exactly as it was,â Flack told The Associated Press in 2018. âWith the song as a theme song for his movie, it gained a lot of popularity and then took off.â
Flack followed up that hit with another No. 1 pop smash, 1973âs âKilling Me Softly.â It too was honored as record of the year â a feat that wasnât duplicated until U2 captured the same Grammy award in 2001-02, Variety said.
A master of the âquiet stormâ style, Flackâs effortless, soothing vocals soon became a staple of R&B and pop radio, leading to a two-decade run of chart hits, Billboard said.
Flackâs other hits from the 1970s included âFeel Like Makinâ Loveâ and two duets with her close friend and former Howard University classmate Donny Hathaway, âWhere Is the Loveâ and âThe Closer I Get to You,â AP said.
Roberta Cleopatra Flack, the daughter of musicians, was born in Black Mountain, North Carolina, and raised in Arlington, Virginia. A gospel fan as a child, she was so talented a piano player that at age 15 she received a full scholarship to Howard.
Jazz musician Les McCann, who later wrote that âher voice touched, tapped, trapped, and kicked every emotion Iâve ever known,â discovered the classically trained pianist in the late 1960s, AP said. She had been teaching music in Washington and performing in clubs at night.
In the 1980s she had a hit with the Peabo Bryson duet âTonight, I Celebrate My Loveâ and in the 1990s with the Maxi Priest duet âSet the Night to Music.â
Overall, she won five Grammys (three for âKilling Me Softlyâ), was nominated eight other times and was given a lifetime achievement Grammy in 2020, with John Legend and Ariana Grande among those praising her.
âI love that connection to other artists because we understand music, we live music, itâs our language,â Flack told songwriteruniverse.com in 2020. âThrough music we understand what we are thinking and feeling. No matter what challenge life presents, I am at home with my piano, on a stage, with my band, in the studio, listening to music. I can find my way when I hear music.â
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