Irene Cara, '80s pop star behind 'Fame' and 'Flashdance' theme songs, dies at 63

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Actress and singer Irene Cara, an Oscar and Grammy winner greatest recognized for the theme songs of “Fame” and “Flashdance” within the early ’80s, has died, her publicist stated. She was 63.

“Please share your ideas and reminiscences of Irene,” Judith Moose stated in a tweet saying the singer’s loss of life. “I’ll be studying each considered one of them and know she’ll be smiling from Heaven. She adored her followers.

“She was a superbly gifted soul whose legacy will reside endlessly by her music and movies.”

Cara died in her Florida house. The reason for loss of life is unknown, in response to Moose’s assertion.

As a youth, Cara appeared on TV’s “Electrical Firm” earlier than appearing as a teen within the motion pictures “Aaron Loves Angela” and “Sparkle.”

Her breakthrough got here as Coco Hernandez within the 1980 musical “Fame,” about New York’s Excessive College for the Performing Arts. She had a success file with that film’s title tune, and one other with the ballad “Out Right here on My Personal.” She was nominated for a Golden Globe and two Grammys that yr.

Three years later, Cara co-wrote the lyrics for “Flashdance… What a Feeling,” one other radio smash for which she acquired an Oscar for Finest Authentic Tune and a Grammy for Finest Pop Vocal Efficiency, Feminine.

She had just a few different hits, together with “Why Me” and “Breakdance.” She additionally acted in motion pictures equivalent to “Metropolis Warmth” with Burt Reynolds and Clint Eastwood, “D.C. Cab” with Mr. T and “Sure Fury” with Tatum O’Neal.