# Award-winning pop/R&B vocalist and songwriter, Roberta Flack, known for her Grammy-winning hits, Killing Me Softly With His Song, and The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face, has died. She was 88. Over her career, she has won five Grammys, including a lifetime achievement award in 2020, and back-to-back record of the year wins. Flack, a classically trained singer-pianist, had six top-ten pop hits and ten R&B singles. Her last album was released in 2012. The Recording Academy says the world has lost a musical great.
Legendary R&B and soul singer Roberta Flack has died at the age of 88