The Roberta Flack singer, who was famous for the first time I saw your face and killed me quietly with his song, died at the age of 88.
A statement from its representatives said: “We are saddened because the glorious Roberta Vlaca died this morning, February 24, 2025.”
“She died in peace from her family. Roberta broke the borders and records. She was also a proud teacher.”
Flack was previously In 2022 it was announced that it suffers from motor nervous diseaseAnd he can no longer sing.
The musician was born in North Carolina and grew up in Arlington, Virginia, as a classic pianist. She received a full school for Huard University, who is only 15 years old. Her classic training led her to teaching, but at night she was accompanying the opera singers on the piano, and sings pop standards during the breaks.
“While I was studying classic music, especially in my youth’s years, I was also doing a lot of DOO-RRON, Shoo-Doo-Doo, all these things, with my colleagues, so I and I made it clear that Bach, Joban and Shoman on the one hand, and all the rhythm and blues” I was lucky Sufficiently to be surrounded by music throughout my life, Bach, Joban and Roman on the one hand, and all rhythm and blues. “
Her career began recording after her discovery as she sang at the jazz club by the musician Les Mccann, who later wrote that “her voice was not touched, trapped, and kicked all the feelings she knew at all.”
But she did not score her first blow until she was in her thirties – when her registration for EWAN Maccoll was the first time I saw your face using a clear love scene in the movie Clint Eastwood for 1971 Misty for me.
It was later named the song of the year in Grammys. Flack won the award for the second time the following year, to kill me quietly with his song.
After the charts are topped again in 1974 with a feeling like Makin ‘Love, Flack took a break from performance to focus on registration and charitable reasons.
She spent a lot of the tour in the eighties and worked throughout her career, and worked with artists, including Doni Hathaway and Miles Davis.
In 1991, she returned to the plans with Dio with a maxi priest called Set the Night to Music (from the album of the same name).
It was also recorded a bit it in 2012.
According to The Guardian, Flack told a journalist: “What I consider to be a compassionate singer, as I try to sing with all the feeling that I have in my body and mind.
“A real person is the person who can take the song of anyone, transcend all defects, technology, and make you only listen.”
Once a marriage, from American jazz Stephen Novosel, the star devoted a lot of her time to Roberta Flac Music School in New York.
Reverend Jesse Jackson once described it as “socially related and not afraid.”
In 2020, a year after a stroke, Flack won the life achievement award from Grammys.
She said at the time: “It is a tremendous and overwhelming honor.”
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The most famous Flack song was introduced to a new generation of music lovers when the hip -hop collection in Lauryn Hill the Fugees recorded a Grammy cover with quietly killed me, which they would eventually perform on the stage next to it.
Plannings were topped all over the world in 1996.