Irene Cara died at the age of 63. The American singer and actress was best known for her movie title songs Fame in Flash Dance, with which he achieved great success in the eighties. The cause of his death is still unknown. She died at her Florida home, her press secretary said on Saturday.
Cara rose to worldwide fame in the early eighties for her role as Coco Hernandez in the musical film Fame, for which he also provided the soundtrack. It earned her two Grammy Awards at the time. The song became a number 1 hit in the Netherlands.
He also sang the title song a few years later Flash DanceAlso known as What a feeling. Cara even received a Grammy for it and was even awarded an Academy Award for Best Original Song. That song also became a worldwide hit.
After these two successes, Cara acted in various films and TV series, but she never enjoyed such success again. In recent years she has lived a retired life. According to her publicist, the singer-actress “will live on forever through her music and her films.”
