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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 recollections of Irene,” Judith Moose stated in a tweet saying the singer’s dying. “I’ll be studying every one in every of them and know she’ll be smiling from Heaven. She adored her followers.
“She was a fantastically gifted soul whose legacy will stay endlessly by her music and movies.”
Cara died in her Florida house. The reason for dying is unknown, in accordance with Moose’s assertion.
As a youth, Cara appeared on TV’s “Electrical Firm” earlier than appearing as a teen within the films “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 report 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 obtained an Oscar for Finest Unique Tune and a Grammy for Finest Pop Vocal Efficiency, Feminine.
She had a number of different hits, together with “Why Me” and “Breakdance.” She additionally acted in films similar to “Metropolis Warmth” with Burt Reynolds and Clint Eastwood, “D.C. Cab” with Mr. T and “Sure Fury” with Tatum O’Neal.