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Irene Cara obituary - The Guardian
Nov 27, 2022 1 min, 11 secs

It was the title song of Alan Parker’s eponymous film, documenting the struggles of students at New York’s High School of Performing Arts.

Both Fame and another single from the film soundtrack, Out Here on My Own (a Top 20 US hit), were nominated for Oscars, and since both were sung by Cara she achieved the rare feat of singing more than one song at an Academy Awards ceremony.

It was the title song from Adrian Lyne’s film Flashdance, and it occupied the No 1 slot on Billboard’s Hot 100 for six weeks while topping numerous other charts around the world.

This time Cara was one of the songwriters, along with Giorgio Moroder and Keith Forsey, and shared in the triumph when it won the Oscar for best original song.

The film was the story of an ambitious dancer trying to win a place at an elite dance conservatory, and Cara wanted the lyric to show how the character is “in control of her body when she dances and how she can be in control of her life”.

Cara protested that the label had failed to promote the album.

In the 2000s, Cara, who had homes in Largo, Florida and Santa Fe, New Mexico, opted for semi-retirement, though she mentored the all-female group Hot Caramel and released the album Irene Cara Presents Hot Caramel in 2011.

Irene Cara Escalera, actor, singer and songwriter, born 18 March 1959; died 25 November 2022

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