Legendary Songstress Roberta Flack Passes Away at 88

(Photo by Andy Kropa/Getty Images) The Grammy-winning singer and pianist whose legendary vocal and musical style brought us hits like “Killing Me Softly”, “Where is the Love” and “The Closer I Get to You”, has passed away. She was 88. At her passing, she was surrounded by her family at home, publicist Elaine Schock said in a statement. Flack announced in 2022 she had ALS, commonly known as Lou Gehrig’s disease, and could no longer sing, Little known before her early 30s, 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. “The record label wanted to have it re-recorded with a faster tempo, but he said he wanted it exactly as it was,” Flack told The Associated Press in 2018. “With the song as a theme song for his movie, it gained...