Roberta Flack, Grammy Award-Winning Singer, Dead at 88 - E! Online
Roberta Flack, known for such hits as "Killing Me Softly With His Song" and "The First Time I Ever Saw Your Face," died Feb. 24 at the age of 88, her rep confirmed to E! News.
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The music world has lost a legend.
Roberta Flack, the Grammy-winning singer known for such hits as "The First Time I Ever Saw Your Face" and "Killing Me Softly With His Song," died Feb. 24, her rep confirmed in a statement to E! News. She was 88.
"We are heartbroken that the glorious Roberta Flack passed away this morning, February 24, 2025,â the statement read. âShe died peacefully surrounded by her family. Roberta broke boundaries and records. She was also a proud educator."
She is survived by her son, Bernard Wright, who she shared with ex-husband Stephen Novosel.
Flack's passing comes three years after she announced in 2022 that she had ALSâcommonly known as Lou Gehrigâs diseaseâwhich "made it impossible to sing and not easy to speak," her manager said at the time, adding that "it will take a lot more than ALS to silence this icon."
The singer planned to "stay active in her musical and creative pursuits" following her diagnosis.
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The song rocketed to the top of Billboard's pop chart and won Flack Record of the Year at the 1972 Grammys. She repeated both achievements with "Killing Me Softly" the following year, making her the first artist to ever win the category back-to-back (an achievement that wasn't repeated until U2 in the early aughts).
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Flack would go on to achieve monumental success throughout her career, notching six top 10 pop hits and 10 top-10 R&B songs. She released what would be her final album, Let It Be Roberta, back in 2012.
Beyond her solo achievements, Flack frequently collaborated with fellow music legend Donnie Hathaway, including on "The Closer I Get to You," "Back Together Again" and their Grammy-winning hit "Where Is the Love."Â
And more than two decades after her breakout tracks, she was introduced to a new generation of listeners when The Fugees released a Grammy-winning cover of "Killing Me Softly" in 1996.
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The beloved singerâwhose friend Rev. Jesse Jackson once called "socially relevant and politically unafraid"âwill also be remembered for her involvement in the civil rights movement, which she often alluded to in her music.
"I'm deeply saddened that many of the songs I recorded 50 years ago about civil rights, equal rights, poverty, hunger and suffering in our society are still relevant," Flack said in a 2020 interview with AARP. "I hope that people will hear these songs in a new way as they connect to their lives today, to this pandemic, to the growing economic disparities, to Black Lives Matter, to police brutality, to activism versus apathy, and the need for each of us to see it and address it."
She added, "I will continue to use my music to touch hearts, tell my truth, and encourage people always to do whatever they can, however they can, to make the world better."
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