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Roberta Flack's Hollywood Walk of Fame star remains unveiled decades after selection as she dies at 88
Roberta Flack's passing on Monday marks the end of a legendary career-but she never lived to see her Walk of Fame star unveiled. She was tapped in 1999, yet a ceremony was never scheduled.
The news follows confirmation from Flack’s friend and manager, Suzanne Koga, who told The New York Times that the singer suffered cardiac arrest and passed away en route to the hospital. 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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