Singer and actress Irene Cara, winner of two Academy Awards for best song, died on Saturday at the age of 63 in Florida. The cause of her death was not disclosed.
Irene Cara was born on March 18, 1959 in the Bronx, New York, and was the daughter of a Puerto Rican saxophonist, and was known for singing “Flashdance… What a Feeling”, from the soundtrack of “Flashdance – Em Ritmo de Embalo” (1983 ) and the title track of “Fame” (1980), both awarded by the US Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
The artiste also starred in ‘Fame’ as an actress, having excelled in another musical: 1976’s ‘Sparkle’ about three singing sisters whose family ties are severed as they seek fame.
The beginning of his career was precisely in Broadway musicals, as a teenager, which he left to star in the interracial love film “Aaron Loves Angela” (1975). After “Sparkle,” he also had leading roles in the television miniseries “Roots II” (1979) and the telefilm “Jim Jones: The Guyana Tragedy” (1980).
But it was in Alan Parker’s 1980 musical that he achieved success. Cara played “Fame” star Coco Hernandez, struggling alongside students at a performing arts school to hone their talents and pursue art for a living. The film was a box office phenomenon and a sales record. She sang the title track and the hit “Out Here on My Own”, which made the lists of the most played songs of the year. Both were even nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Song, in a dispute that gave the statuette to “Fame.”
The backlash led to Cara being nominated for the 1980 Grammy Awards for Best New Artist and Best Female Pop Performance.
However, after reaching this career high point, it all came with bad choices.
He starred in a selection of bad films in the 1980s, including the comedy “Taxi Special” (1983) with Mr. T., the action comedy “Burning City” (1984) with Clint Eastwood and the thriller “Death Shock” (1985) with Tatum O’Neal.
None of these works were commercially successful, which put her on the path of trash productions and shortened her career. In 1989 she made her last film: “Caged in Paradise”, in which she plays a prisoner imprisoned with other women on a tropical island.
Subsequently, she starred again in the detective series “Anjo Maldito” (Gabriel’s Fire), alongside James Earl Jones, but the production only lasted one season, between 1990 and 1991, and Cara returned to work only as a dubber for games and animations released directly to video.
At the same time, her music career suffered from her decision to sue her label, Network Records, for feeling used and ripped off. In her 1985 lawsuit, Cara demanded $10 million from her, claiming that the Network exploited her work and trust into signing contracts costing her more than $2 million.
The lawsuit lasted eight years before the court recognized that Cara had been harmed by the record company. But she only won $1.5 million in damages, much of which was covered by the costs of the lawsuit, and she found herself with a damaged reputation at a time when women were only supposed to do what she was told. said. In interviews over the years, Cara has stated that she was disowned by the music industry after claiming rights to her, receiving the label “difficult.”
Cara had one last burst of fame when she re-recorded “Flashdance… What a Feeling” with DJ BoBo for the soundtrack of the 1997 comedy “Ou Tudo ou Nada”. Her glory days.
We recall below the three greatest successes of Irene Cara.
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