GRAMMY Award-winning singer Roberta Flack has died at age 88.
Flack, who was best known for her 1973 smash hit Killing Me Softly with His Song, died on Monday, her representative said in a statement.
The representative said Flack died peacefully surrounded by her family.
“Roberta broke boundaries and records. She was also a proud educator,” the statement added.
A cause of death was not immediately disclosed.
Flack, who was born on February 10, 1937, was raised in a large, musical family in Black Mountain, North Carolina, about 15 miles east of Asheville.
Her mother, Irene Flack, was a church organist, who taught her daughter how to play classical piano at a young age.
Considered a young musical prodigy, Roberta Flack began studying piano at age 9, and by age 15, earned a full scholarship at Howard University in Washington DC.
Flack began her music career by working as a nightclub performer at the Mr. Henry’s bar in Washington DC.
She was discovered in the late 1960s by jazz songwriter Les McCann, who described Flack’s performance as “the soulful and central quality of Black Music.”
McCann acknowledged how Flack’s powerful voice “touched, tapped, trapped, and kicked every emotion I’ve ever known.”
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