Fame… No one has forgotten his success from the soundtrack of the film by Alan Parker (1980). « I will live forever, remember my name » (“I’ll live forever, remember my name”), proclaimed the young New Yorker of Cuban and Puerto Rican descent.
Singer, actress, dancer, author, Irene Cara Escalera died Friday night at her home in New Port Richey, Florida. She was 63 years old. The cause of her death is currently unknown.
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This Bronx native will know success thanks to the film by Alan Parker who will offer her the role of her life, that of Coco, a young dancer in an art school in New York whose career will continue as… porn actress. Fame wins the Oscar for best original song (written by Michael Gore and Dean Pitchford, composed by Michael Gore): Irene Cara’s career is launched.
Oscar for best original song as lyricist
Three years later, she topped the charts with a new song, Flashdance… What a feeling from the movie Flash Dance by Adrian Lyne, whose lyrics he co-wrote with music by Giorgio Moroder. He won the Academy Award for Best Original Song as a lyricist.
Subsequently, he will experience more lows than highs. He will shoot in a dozen films including Guns high! alongside Clint Eastwood and Burt Reynolds. He will also release a dozen albums, the latest dating back to 2011 (Irene Cara presents hot caramel). Without ever referring to the success of her debut, remaining the interpreter of two hits of the 80s. But what an interpreter!
