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Roberta Flack, Formative Quiet-Storm Singer, Dead at 88
She was the first artist to earn the Grammy for Record of the Year back-to-back.
But she didn’t experience much commercial success until Clint Eastwood used Flack’s recording of the folk song “The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face,” from First Take, for the soundtrack of his directorial debut, Play Misty for Me, in 1971. That success continued with Flack’s 1972 duet album with soul singer Donny Hathaway as well as her 1973 recording of “Killing Me Softly With His Song.” That song also hit No. Flack recorded regularly throughout the 1990s, gaining more hits including a 1991 version of “Set the Night to Music.” In 2012, she released her first album in over a decade and final full length, a collection of Beatles covers called Let It Be Roberta.
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