Roberta Flack’s ALS makes it IMPOSSIBLE to sing

Roberta Flack cannot sing.

Roberta Flack's agent revealed on Monday that the Grammy-winning artist has ALS, often known as Lou Gehrig's disease, and is no longer able to sing.

According to Suzanne Koga, Flack's manager, the sickness “has made it impossible to sing and not easy to speak.”

“But it will take a lot more than ALS to silence this icon.”

The diagnosis of Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis was made public just days before Roberta, a feature-length documentary that will screen at the Doc NYC film festival on Thursday.

The 85-year-old Grammy-winning singer and pianist “plans to stay active in her musical and creative pursuits” through her name-brand foundation and other channels, according to the press statement.

Killing Me Softly With His Song and The First Time I Ever Saw Your Face are two of Flack's best-known songs; the latter propelled her to fame after Clint Eastwood used it as the background music for a love scene in his 1971 movie Play Misty for Me.