# Roberta Flack dies at age 88

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**Category:** Cafe Society
**Tags:** music
**Created:** [February 24, 2025, 4:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/roberta-flack-dies-at-age-88/1014735 "2025-02-24T16:59:40Z")
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#### Post date: [February 24, 2025, 5:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/roberta-flack-dies-at-age-88/1014735/2 "2025-02-24T17:01:03Z")

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Old thread from 2022 about her illness.

RIP

> [@"Roberta Flack announces she has ALS"](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/roberta-flack-announces-she-has-als/974914):
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> Damn. “…“impossible to sing and not easy to speak”…” cry Hard to believe she’s 85.

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