Grammy-winning singer Roberta Flak is best known for her hit songs I'll kill me gently with his song and When I first saw your facedead. She was 88 years old.
Her spokesperson confirmed the death of the legendary singer on LBC on Monday Report.
“We are heartbroken by the passing of the glorious Roberta Flack this morning, February 24th, 2025,” the statement read.
“She died peacefully surrounded by her family. Roberta broke boundaries and records. She was also a proud educator.”
Flack previously announced in 2022 that he had motor neuronal disease and could no longer sing.
File/American musician Roberta Flak will perform on stage at Park West Auditorium in Chicago, Illinois on March 30, 1981 (Paul Knuckin/Getty Images)
Soul and R&B icon Flack was the first artist to win a Grammy Award for the second year in a row in 1973. For the first time I saw your face – And in 1974 He gently killed me with his song, LBC Report Notes.
Born in Black Mountain, North Carolina in 1937, Flack acquired music at an early age and was hospitalized at Howard University by the age of 15 to study music throughout history.
During her career, she worked with artists such as Donnie Hathaway and Miles Davis, and recorded an album of Beatles covers to the BBC in 2012 Report.
In 2020, a year after a stroke, Flack received the Grammy Award for Lifetime Achievement.
File/1/19/92, a service ceremony for St. John's Dizzy Gillespie, performed by Roberta Flack (Centre), New York, New York, USA. (Photo by Najlah Feanny/Corbis via Getty Images)
“It's an incredible, overwhelming honor,” she said at the time.
“I tried my whole career to tell stories through my music, and this award is a testimony to me that my peers have listened to what I thought and incorporated what I was trying to give. ”
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