He killed me quietly, the singer dies at the age of 88

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.

Music was born in North Carolina and grew up in Arlington, Virginia, as a classic pianist, studying the first music.

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.

Throughout her career, she worked with artists including Doni Hathaway and Miles Davis, and she recorded an album of Beatles covers, called let It It Roberta, in 2012.

According to The Guardian, I once 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.”

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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Once a marriage, from American jazz Stephen Novosel, the star devoted a lot of her time to Roberta Flac Music School in New York.

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.