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R&B singer Roberta Flack dead at 88 as Killing Me Softly crooner remembered for ‘heart-achingly beautiful songs’

GRAMMY Award-winning singer Roberta Flack has died at age 88.

Flack, who was best known for her 1974 smash hit Killing Me Softly with His Song, died on Monday, her representative said in a statement.

Roberta Flack performing onstage at Madison Square Garden.
Roberta Flack onstage at Madison Square Garden for the Atlantic Records 40th anniversary concert in New York in May 1988
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The representative said Flack died peacefully surrounded by her family.

“Roberta broke boundaries and records. She was also a proud educator,” the statement added.

A cause of death was not immediately disclosed.

Flack, who was born on February 10, 1937, was raised in a large, musical family.

Her mother, Irene Flack, was a church organist, who taught her daughter how to play classical piano at a young age.

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