From a Wall Street Journal story by Ginger Adams Otis headlined “Singer Roberta Flack Has ALS, Finds It Impossible to Sing”:

Grammy award-winning artist Roberta Flack has ALS, commonly known as Lou Gehrig‘s disease, and can no longer sing.

Ms. Flack, 85, had hoped to attend Thursday’s premiere of “Roberta,” a feature-length documentary about her that’s being screened at DOC NYC, an annual documentary film festival in New York.

She is currently hospitalized in New York and unable to attend, although many of her friends and family will be there.