Roberta Flack – a life in pictures

Singer Roberta Flack, photographed in 1969

Performing at Ronnie Scott’s, London, in 1972

Roberta Flack and Donny Hathaway perform on a BBC TV show, 1973

Flack at the 1974 Grammy awards, after Killing Me Softly With His Song won record and song of the year. Isaac Hayes, right, looks on

With Michael Jackson in a TV special, 1974

Backstage at the Grammy awards in 1975. From left, Art Garfunkel and Paul Simon, Yoko Ono and John Lennon, and Roberta Flack

On stage at Park West Auditorium, Chicago, 1981

With Luther Vandross backstage at Madison Square Garden in New York City, 1982

Peabo Bryson and Roberta Flack perform together in 1983 on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson

With former South African president Nelson Mandela, talking to reporters after their meeting at Mandela’s house in Johannesburg, South Africa, 1999. Flack sang Killing Me Softly With His Song for Mandela during their meeting

Performing in Calvia, Mallorca, 2006

Performing at the 2012 Women for Women International Gala, in New York City