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"text": "Roberta Flack passed on February 24, 2025 at the age of 88. https://www.theguardian.com/music/2025/feb/24/roberta-flack-obituary\n\nThe title track from Flack's album \"Killing Me Softly\" went on to win the 1974 Grammy Award for Record of the Year.\n\nThe Hyde Leadership Charter School in the Bronx, NYC, runs an after-school music program called \"The Roberta Flack School of Music\" to provide free music education to underprivileged students in partnership with Flack, who founded the school.\n\nCheck out PBS's American Masters 2023 documentary on Roberta Flack: https://www.pbs.org/video/roberta-flack-mnv48o/\n\nhttps://robertaflack.com/"
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