News of her singer Irene Cara's death was announced on her official Twitter account by her publicist, Judith A. Moose, who said Cara died in her Florida home of an unknown cause.
2012 interview with the Los Angeles Times"I left home ... I got an apartment near where we were filming. I wanted to be my own woman and all of this," she said."I started hanging out in nightclubs, and I was sowing my oats.”
Three years later after"Fame," Cara got her next go at the awards cycle as the voice behind the hit from 1983's"Flashdance" starring Jennifer Beals. Cara won the Academy Award for"Flashdance ... What A Feeling" along with songwriters Giorgio Moroder and Keith Forsey for best original song. The song also won two Grammy awards.
During her career, Cara had three Top 10 hits on the Billboard Hot 100, including “Breakdance,” “Out Here On My Own,” “Fame” and “Flashdance ... What A Feeling,” which spent six weeks at No. 1. She was behind some of the most joyful, high-energy pop anthems of the early ’80s. Beals presented the Oscar to Cara at the 56th Academy Awards. The singer called it"the most precious honor" before thanking her parents, teachers and fellow musicians.
"Thank you brilliant Irene for your open heart and your fearless triple threat talent," Beals wrote remembering
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