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Roberta Flack's final Instagram post was a sweet tribute to Celine Dion as she praised the 'wondrous' singer just three days before her death aged 88
Roberta Flack's final Instagram post before she died was a sweet tribute to Celine Dion, which came just three days before her death.
The post was met with a number of positive comments from fans, praising both ladies renditions of the emotional song - which was originally written in 1957 by British political singer-songwriter Ewan MacColl for his then lover Peggy Seeger. Flack became an overnight star after Clint Eastwood used The First Time I Ever Saw Your Face as the soundtrack for one of cinema’s more memorable and explicit love scenes, between the actor and Donna Mills in his 1971 film Play Misty for Me.' The hushed, hymn-like ballad, with Flack’s graceful soprano afloat on a bed of soft strings and piano, topped the Billboard pop chart in 1972 and received a Grammy for record of the year.
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