The legendary logic/r & b Roberta FlacAnd that was launched to stardom in the early seventies by the strikes on the Grammy “the first time I saw your face” and “kill me quietly with his song”, died, according to a statement from its representative. No cause of death was cited; It was 88.
“We are sad that the glorious Roberta Vlac Flac died this morning, February 24, 2025,” says the statement. She died safely surrounded by her family. Roberta breaking the borders and records. She was also a proud teacher. “
The singer -trained singer player did not find a classic in a later fame when Clint Eastwood used her two -year -old version of the “first time I saw your face” in his appearance in 1971 “Play Misty for Me”.
This pop 1 succeeded by a second scheme, “killing me quietly in 1973.” Both offerings were recognized in consecutive years with Grams, such as the General Register-a achievement that was not repeated until U2 won the same award in 2001-2002.
She reached her climax with Smash Pop and R&b 1974 “Where is Love”, which claimed the top of both planners.
In all, it brought the flexible and slow Flack style burned by the six top 10 songs of pop music and 10 individuals of the best 10 R&b, some in partnership with the vocal Hathaway.
Peter Shapiro, who summarizes economically, wrote her attractiveness in “The Rough Guide to Soul and R&b”, “Orbane, Genteel and Jazzy, Roberta Flak, in many ways, did the ideal spirit in the early seventies. She appealed to her beautiful sensual songs Hashd Bert Pasharash/Fifth/Fifth For dimensions, while keyboards The sparkling and flawless rules made it the adhesive child to mobilize the pants.
Although she faded by drawing the graph in the end of the 1970s, Flack continued to register in the new millennium; Her last album, The Beatles Recital “Let It Be Roberta” was released in 2012.
She was born to a musical family in Black Mountain, NC, Flack was inspired as a girl by the Bible works in Mahalia Jackson and Sam Cooke. The piano began at the age of nine; Something from a musical miracle, Houard University in Washington, DC, entered 15 in a full scholarship.
Her postgraduate work was reduced by her father’s death, and she studied school in North Carolina and Colombia. I also started working as a night performance in the capital; The jazz jazz player Li Li Macan, an interstate star in Atlantic Records, who is an interstate star in Atlantic Records, a cross -off star in Atlantic Records. McCane brought the poster of the poster, which he signed in 1968.
It was released in 1969, Joel Dorn did not shoot. However, “the first time I saw your face”-a song written by Folksiner Ewan Maccoll and was cut by the American popular pop law His movie “plays my fog for me.”
Flack had already got a blow No. 8 R&B with its version of James Taylor, but the first time is everywhere in the spread of the first pop, and prompted “First Take” to No. 1 for five weeks. In January 1973, I collected Grammy.
Almost simultaneously, “Where is Love”, Flack’s second pair with a scrambled and improved spirit singer, Hathaway, reached the first place on the R&B chart and 5 in the pop menu. The number was better named audio performance by a dual or group in 73 Grammys and the LP “Roberta Flack & Donny Hathaway” pushed to Rolls.
Flack has reached the rise of her popularity between the public and her peers with “quietly killed me.” Charles Fox and Norman Jimbel formulated it, and the number was inspired by the reaction of singer Lori Lieberman to the performance of the people of the popcink. Lieberman’s 1971 registration failed in the melody in the graph, but Flack quickly recorded it after hearing it during a flight to New York.
Produced by DORN, the bright FLACK version was filmed to No. 1 on the pop chart and No. 2 on R&B plans in early 1973; The album “Killing Me quietly” reached its climax in third place and dual platinum gold. The song was named “The General Registry” and the best audio performance for pop at the 1974 Grammys party, and was enlightened in the Grammy Celebrity Hall in 1999. FUGEES Cover was 1996, which included singing for the future winner Grammy Lauryn Hill, No. 1 R & B Hit .
Flack continued to recording the graphic strokes during the 1970s, and topped itself with double pop music and R&b No. 1 “Feel Like Makeing Love”, “with Hathaway in 1978.
However, this cooperation was tragic through Hathaway’s suicide in January 1979; The duo “Once again again”, after his death in 1980, arrived at No. 8. Its subsequent pair with the Peabo Bryson vocalist resulted in the song No. 5 R&b, “Tonight, I celebrated my love”, in 1983.
Flack’s voice for contemporary adults fell in the late 1970s, as listeners are increasingly attracted to the voices of fans, rap and hip hop. Her last album was released from the best 10, “Blue Lights in the Basement” (No. 8), in 1978. Its last individual pop was the topic of Brachaork-Penned “Make Love” (No. 13, 1982) and “Set the night On music, “is a duet with the Rigi Maxi Brest singer (No. 6, 1991).
She nominated a total of 13 times, obtained her last gesture in 1995, to get the best audio performance for the traditional pop, for “Roberta”, which she called the Standard Song Book.
Flack, who divorced Stephen Novosel in 1972, was survived by her son, musician Bernard Wright.
