The singer-actor Irene Cara has passed away. She was best known for starring in the 1980s films Fame and Flashdance and singing the movie's title songs.63, she was.
Judith Moose, Cara's publicist, announced the news on Cara's social media accounts on Saturday that she had passed away at her home in Florida.She stated that "currently unknown" was the cause of death.
"Irene's family has mentioned security as they process their misery," Moose composed. "She was a beautiful, talented person whose films and music will forever be remembered."
Cara was born in the Bronx area of New York City to a Puerto Rican and Cuban family from the working class.Her work as a child actor included recurring roles on the children's show The Electric Company from the 1970s.
However, it was Notoriety, the 1980 film about a gathering of capable youthful hopefuls in New York attempting to send off their vocations in the vicious performing expressions world, that sent off Cara to fame.She performed on the title track, which was up for an Oscar for best original song.
Cara was described as "a dynamo who could sing, dance, and act, the definition of a triple threat" by her famed co-star Laura Dean Koch.Irene was a person I aspired to be like and a role model for me."
Three years later, Cara accepted the Oscar for best original song for "Flashdance... What a Feeling" with the songwriting team of the 1983 film Flashdance, for which she sang the jubilant title song to music by Giorgio Moroder and lyrics by Cara and Keith Forsey.Additionally, her work on Flashdance earned her two Grammy Awards.
A subsequent generation of artists was influenced by Cara.Seth Rudetsky, a Broadway conductor and radio host, claims that watching Cara on television as a child influenced his career goals.
According to him, "Irene Cara represented making it in the arts and gave us so much excitement, hope, and enthusiasm to pursue the arts."
"Amazing projects that would have made her and her fans incredibly happy," Moose said in a Twitter statement following the incident.
She stated, "Her manager and I will finish them."That is something she would want.
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