‘Killing Me Softly’ icon Roberta Flack dies, age 88

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Consequence).By 1969, Flack had shared her debut album ‘First Take’ with Atlantic Records, and in 1971 she famously starred in the Ghana Independence Day concert film Soul To Soul, which also featured Santana, Ike & Tina Turner and more.Throughout the ‘70s, her success continued to grow.

Her now-classic track ‘The First Time I Ever Saw Your Face’ was notably chosen by Clint Eastwood to feature in his directorial debut Play Misty for Me.

It would later go on to win Record Of The Year at the ‘93 Grammys and become her first chart-topping single. She would work with the Hollywood star again in his 1983 film Sudden Impact.That same year her ‘Killing Me Softly’ album saw her take home Record of the Year and Best Female Pop Performance at the 1974 Grammys and reach the top of the charts again. ‘Feel Like Making Love’ marked another Number One hit, and was released in 1974.‘Killing Me Softly With His Song’ would go on to get more recognition over two decades later, when Fugees dropped their hit cover for ‘The Score’.

She would also continue making music up until the late 2010s. Her final album ‘Running’ was shared in 2018, and she also paid homage to The Beatles in 2012 with her covers album ‘Let It Be Roberta’.Two years later she was given the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award at the 2020 ceremony, and went on to announce her amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) diagnosis in 2022.