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Roberta Flack, Grammy-Winning Soul Singer, Dead at 88

Roberta Flack, the Grammy-winning singer who sang "Killing Me Softly With His Song" and "The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face," has died at age 88.

Roberta Flack, the veteran Grammy-winning soul and R&B vocalist who recorded massive hits with “The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face” and “Killing Me Softly with His Song,” died Monday at age 88. She eventually began gigging in clubs in Washington, D.C. (shows that were attended by the likes of Burt Bacharach and Johnny Mathis, spreading the buzz) and Flack was soon signed to Atlantic Records, which released her first album, First Take, in 1969. After Clint Eastwood used her meditative version of British folksinger Ewan MacColl’s “The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face” in his film Play Misty for Me, the song hit Number One on the pop charts and launched Flack’s career.

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