It’s the end of a musical icon of the 80s. This Saturday, November 26, Irene Cara died in her sleep at her home in Florida. The causes of his death remain unknown.
Music loses one of its stars. A star that shone in the 80s. Without her, musicals on the big screen would not have known such enthusiasm at the time. “What a feeling” from Flashdance (1983), but also “Fame” (1980) will have marked a whole generation. 63-year-old Irene Cara, the performer of these two world-famous hits, died on the night of Saturday November 26 at her home in Florida.
It was her agent Judith Moose who announced the sad news via the singer’s official Twitter account: “It is with deep sadness that, on behalf of her family, I announce the death of Irene Cara. (…) The cause of his death is currently unknown“, she wrote. “That’s the worst part of being a star agent. I can’t believe I had to write this, let alone publish the news. Please share your thoughts and memories of Irene. I will read each one of them and I know she will smile from heaven. She loved her fans“, she continued then.
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Consecration in 1983
Born Irene Cara Escalera on March 18, 1959 in the Bronx, the singer was best known for having played the role of Coco in the film Fame, released in 1980, a feature film in which she also performed the eponymous soundtrack. The consecration really arrived in 1983, release date of the film Flashdance, in which Jennifer Beals played Alex Owen, a construction worker by day and a cabaret dancer by night. Irene Cara had been entrusted with the song Flashdance but also and above all with the hit What a feeling, a song for which she co-wrote the lyrics and which won her the Grammy for best pop singer in 1984 as well as the Oscar for best song. original. The artist was then erased from the music and film scene in the following decades, despite attempting a comeback in 2011 with the release of her latest album, Irene Cara Presents Hot Caramel. She will forever remain in the hearts of her fans.