Actress and singer Irene Cara, an Oscar and Grammy winner greatest identified for the theme songs of “Fame” and “Flashdance” within the early ’80s, has died, her publicist stated. She was 63.
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Actress and singer Irene Cara, an Oscar and Grammy winner great known for the subject songs of “Fame” and “Flashdance” in the early ’80s, has died, her publicist stated. She turned into sixty three.
“Please percentage your mind and recollections of Irene,” Judith Moose stated in a tweet announcing the singer’s loss of life. “I’ll be finding out each and every thought of one among them and understand she’ll be smiling from Heaven. She adored her lovers.
“She turned into a wonderfully gifted soul whose legacy will stay perpetually via her tune and movies.”
Cara died in her Florida dwelling. The rationale of dying is unknown, consistent with Moose’s assertion.
As a children, Cara appeared on TV’s “Electrical Firm” earlier than showing as a teen inside the films “Aaron Loves Angela” and “Sparkle.”
Her leap ahead obtained right here as Coco Hernandez within the 1980 musical “Fame,” roughly New York’s Excessive College for the Performing Arts. She had profitable report with that film’s title monitor, and one other with the ballad “Out Right here on My Personal.” She turned nominated for a Golden Globe and Grammys that 12 months.
Three years later, Cara co-wrote the lyrics for “Flashdance… What a Feeling,” another radio wreck for which she obtained an Oscar for Greatest Unique Track and a Grammy for Greatest Pop Vocal Efficiency, Feminine.
She had a number of different hits, together with “Why Me” and “Breakdance.” She additionally acted in movies which embody “Metropolis Warmth” with Burt Reynolds and Clint Eastwood, “D.C. Cab” with Mr. T and “Sure Fury” with Tatum O’Neal.
