Artist known for Killing Me Softly with His Song, The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face and duets with Donny Hathaway and Peabo Bryson had suffered a stroke in 2016
, the US singer behind a string of hits that included Killing Me Softly with His Song, has died at the age of 88.
Flack was born in 1937 in Black Mountain, North Carolina, to musical parents. Her mother, Irene, was a church choir organist, meaning Flack was introduced to religious and classical music early on. She began playing the piano aged nine, and by 15 she was admitted to Howard University to study music on a full scholarship, one of the youngest students to be accepted in the school’s history.
Around this time the star began collaborating with the soul legend Donny Hathaway; the pair went on to have two US top-five hits with Where Is the Love and The Closer I Get to You. In 1980, a year after Hathaway’s death, the pair had a posthumous hit in the UK with Back Together Again, which reached number three, though she had her biggest UK hit with her new duet partner, Peabo Bryson: the ballad Tonight, I Celebrate My Love reached number two in 1983.
She once told a journalist: “What I consider myself is a soulful singer, in that I try to sing with all the feeling that I have in my body and my mind. A person with true soul is one who can take anybody’s song and transcend all the flaws, the technique, and just make you listen.”
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