Kill me softly singer dies of 88 years

R&B singer Roberta Flack, better known for the successes the first time I saw your face and kill me gently with her song, died at the age of 88.

“We are disconsolate that the glorious Roberta Flack died this morning, on February 24, 2025,” said a statement from his representatives.

“He died peacefully surrounded by his family. Roberta broke limits and records. She was also a proud educator.”

Flack there was announced in 2022 that had motor neurons diseaseAnd I couldn’t sing anymore.

Born in North Carolina and raised in Arlington, Virginia, the musician began as a classic pianist, first music teaching.

His record career began after he was discovered singing in a jazz club for the musician Les McCann, who later wrote that “his voice touched, took advantage, caught and kicked all the emotions I have met.”

But he did not score his first success until he was 30 years old, when his recording of the first time I saw your face of Ewan Maccoll was used to sound an explicit love scene in the 1971 film of Clint Eastwood, Misty for me.

He was later named song of the year in the Grammys. Flack won the award for the second time the following year, for killing me gently with his song.

After overcoming the lists again in 1974 with Feel as Makin ‘Love, Flack took a break to act to concentrate on recording and charitable causes.

In the course of his career, he worked with artists such as Donny Hathaway and Miles Davis, and recorded an album of the Beatles covers, called Let It Be Roberta, in 2012.

According to The Guardian, he once told a journalist: “What I consider is a moving singer, since I try to sing with all the feeling I have in my body and my mind.

“A person with True Soul is one who can take anyone’s song and transcend all defects, technique and simply make you listen.”

In 2020, a year after receiving a stroke, Flack received an award for life for the Grammys.

“It’s a tremendous and overwhelming honor,” he said at that time.

“I have tried all my career to tell stories through my music. This award is a validation for me that my colleagues heard my thoughts and I took what I have tried to give.”

Once married, with the US jazz musician, Uu. Stephen Novosel, the star dedicated a lot of time to Roberta Flack School of Music in New York.

Flack’s most famous song was presented to a new generation of music fans when the Lauryn Hill hip-hop group she.