The Singer Roberta Flack, “the soul of the voice of some songs that kill me with his song” with his song “, to the top of the graphics, and has been affected. He was 88 years old.
The legendary singer died on Monday, according to the Press release of his representatives of ABC News. The expression was not shared by a cause of death.
“We are in the heart that Glorious Roberta Flack passed on February 24, 2025,” said the statement. “He died quietly with his family. Roberta broke the boundaries and records. He also had a proud educator,” the statement continued.
Roberta Flack works in London Hammersmith Apollo on 18 July 2006.
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Diagnosed amiotrophic sclerosis on the side of the flack, otherwise he was known as Als, in 2022, which sang his voice, his publicists. said at the time.
Flack found the graphics in the 1970s “when I first saw your face,” “It kills me with his song”, “” “Love”, “I’m closer to you.”
Singing was nominated for 14 Grammy Awards, five won – including the life achievement award. One year he was the first artist who won the Grammy Grammy Award. I saw “in 1973” for the first time “first time” and in 1974 “that kills me with his song.” The latter would go over the graphics again three decades, later with coverage.
Roberta Flack sings his special TV on June 19, 1973.
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Flack’s influence “more than bothAnd b and indie ‘bedroom’ pop, “critical music wrote by Ann Powers 2020 essaysFlack called “Titan” group “perceived fans and fans”.
“Making more than half a century ago, it was created as one of the most distinctive song stylists in the pop field,” the powers wrote.
Flack was born in the black mountain, North Carolina, in a musical family; His mother was a church organist and his father’s jazz pianist pianist. A miracle on the piano won the full music scholarship at Howard University, when he began attending 15 years. There he met his close friend and collaborator, late Donny Hathaway.
The initial goal was not a song Superstar, but the concert is a classic piano.
“My true ambition was to be a concert pianist and play with Schumann and Bach and Chopin – romantic. These were my boys,” Flack said NPR in 2012.
Flack taught in schools in Les McCann a few years later in Washington, DC, nightclub, his first label, when he helped listen to Atlantic records.
After signing with the Atlantic, I saw Clint Eastwood for the first time “first” soundtrack to his 1971 film “- Play Misty for me.” He helped the cement as a “me dying me.”
“It was unexpected and unique,” Flack wrote an email to the tutor 2020 profile. “Washington’s transition to my life was surreal as a teacher of this kind of attention.”
In the 1970s, Flack regulated Duet with Hathaway – “Where is love” and “I am closer” – until death in 1979.
In the 1980s, he began working with Peabo Bryson, “I celebrate my love tonight,” and also had a hit with Maxi priest “with music at night.” On TV, “he sang for the years together,” Valerie “is the subject of the song”, known as the name “Hogan Family”.
Later, in his career, “Leave Roberta”, 2012. Year. He published the last disk in 2018. Withdrawn from walking the same year.
In 2020 he received the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award. Among other things, Berklee College of Music gave a Music Honor Honor in May 2023.
Its heritage spreads beyond music. In 2010, he founded the Roberta Foundation Foundation, which supports music education. The spokesperson for American society was also to prevent cruelty to animals, with his song “I saw your face” in a commercial organization.
Roberta Flack at Carnegie Hall, April 27, 1998, at the Rain forest concert, in New York.
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A variety of goals, “The Green Piano:” I thought it was little “, in 2023, who tribified Tonya Bolden, as a child, who practiced an old piano, and painted green for him. In his note of his author, Flack asks readers: “Find Your Green Piano ‘and practice constantly until your voice finds, and that music in the world way to go into the world and a way. “
The documentary “American Masters: Roberta Flack” was released in January 2023 PBS, held the music industry icon.
“The artist understands that our songs can offer voice and his piano,” Antonino d’Ambrosio, the director of the film wrote. About the documentary essay.
In his words, Flack said he wanted to be true to himself.
“I didn’t try Soul Singer, a Blues Singer, a Blues singer,” Flack wrote to Guardiano. “My music is a statement that I feel and believe in a moment.”
Flack Steve Novos was married to Jazz musician from 1966 to 1972. Bernard Wright was the god of musicians, died in May 2022.
His nephew has retired the professional ice skater Flack.
