As for her symptoms. we're told she felt extremely dizzy as she was supposed to walk out onstage to receive an award. Due to Roberta's age and the previous stroke. paramedics were called immediately.
Roberta was performing a charity concert for the Jazz Foundation of America when she fell ill. FDNY tells us the ambulance arrived around 8:50 PM EST, and she was taken to a hospital in Harlem.
We're told the 81-year-old singer Roberta was able to leave the stage under her own power ... before someone called for the ambulance. FDNY says they were responding to a call for a "sick person."
We've got a call in to her rep for an update on her condition.
Roberta had enormous hits in the '70s and '80s. including "Killing Me Softly," "The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face" and "Set the Night to Music." SOURCE
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