Cara died at her home in Florida, said her publicist, Judith Moose, who announced the news on Cara’s social media account on Saturday. She said a cause of death was “currently unknown.”
Actress and singer Irene Cara, an Oscar and Grammy winner best known for the theme songs of “Fame” and “Flashdance” in the early ’80s, has died.
As a kid entertainer, her credits remembered a normal spell for the 1970s youngsters’ show The Electric Organization.
However, it was Notoriety, the 1980 film about a gathering of gifted youthful hopefuls in New York attempting to send off their vocations in the merciless performing expressions world, that sent off Cara to fame. She sang on the title track that was assigned for an Institute Grant for best unique melody.
Distinction co-star Laura Senior member Koch recalled Cara as “a dynamo who could sing, dance, and act, the meaning of a triple danger. Irene was a good example and somebody I sought to be like.”
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After three years, Cara acknowledged the Oscar for best unique melody for “Flashdance … What an Inclination,” alongside the songwriting group of Flashdance (1983) — music by Giorgio Moroder, verses by Keith Forsey and Cara — for which she sang the happy title melody. She likewise won two Grammys for her work on Flashdance.
Cara impacted a group of people yet to come of specialists. Broadway guide and radio personality Seth Rudetsky says watching Cara on screen as a youngster helped shape his profession desires.
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