American singer and pianist Roberta Flack, Soul icon and R&B in the seventies that will go down in history as a voice of Killing me Softly With His Song y The First Time Ever I Saw Your FaceHe has died at age 88, reports his publicist Elaine Schock in a statement distributed by the AP agency. The winning artist of two consecutive Grammy Awards for Best Song, who announced that she suffered amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ELA) in 2022, has died on Monday “in peace” and surrounded by her family: “Roberta broke limits and records. And I was also a proud educator. ”
Flack, born in Black Mountain, North Carolina (USA), on February 10, 1937, achieved fame in its thirty thanks to the fact that Clint Eastwood used its version of its version of its version of The First Time Ever I Saw Your FaceBallad of British folklorist Ewan McColl recorded two years earlier, for a scene uploading in his direction in the direction: Chill at nightwhere Eastwood plays a radio DJ fond of good music. That number one on the lists was joined in 1973 Killing me Softly With His Songwho also made her the first artist to take two Grammy for the best consecutive song.
The American, educated as a classical pianist, began her life singing in the church where her father played the organ, which pushed her to study music in Washington and return home as a teacher and occasional singer. Flack also becomes in the voice of night club In Washington, where Les McCann finds it, established pianist and jazz singer, in 1968. It is he who alerts his record, Atlantic Records, of his power. And Ahmet Ertagün, the great bonnet of the New York seal, the card to be the voice of R&B whisper, fragile, sophisticated of the seal. First take (1969) is his first album and recorded in one day.
In the next two years, he enters and leaves the most listened to list, until Eastwood discovers the theme that definitely places it as number one for six weeks. In 2018, Spotify crowned her as the saddest song in history. For this 1971, Flack had already launched new elepés, Chapter two (1970) y Quiet fire (1971), and prepared a disc of duets with Donny Hatthaway. That Roberta Flack and Donny Hatthaway (1972) became another success. In his fifth album, is where Flack includes Killing me Softly With His Songwritten by Norman Gimbel and Charles Fox at the request of Lori Lieberman. Among their other triumphs are Feel Like Makin’ Love (1975), Where Is the Love y The Closer I Get to You. In 2020, the Grammy gave him an honorary award.