“Don’t you know who I am? Remember my name, Fame! “, she sang as an omen. Irene Cara, interpreter of these words taken from the song “Fame” and from the homonymous film of which it is the title track, she will no longer sing. The 63-year-old singer was found dead at her Florida home on Friday, Nov. 25. The causes of her death are not yet known, but what we do know is that an icon of the 80s is leaving with her.
“Fame” and “What a feeling”, the two hits of his life
Famous it’s the movie that made Irene Cara a star. When she came out in 1980, she was only 20 years old, but she was already multiplying her talents, not only as a singer, but also as an actress and dancer. A year later, the title earned him an Academy Award for Best Original Song. An award that he doubled 3 years later with another hit, also the star song of a film: “Flashdance, what a feeling”. This title will also earn her the Grammy Award for Best Pop Singer in 1984. The films and albums she will release later will not fuel her success, but Irene Cara’s fame was already made and we still sing her songs at the top of our lungs today.
Irene Cara, a role model for a generation of women
If for several generations Irene Cara is the symbol of timeless pieces, synonymous with evenings as nostalgic as they are wild, for others it is also a model. On Instagram, the American actress Eva Mendes, of Cuban origin, paid tribute to what she calls “a pioneering Latina”. “This American icon of Cuban and Puerto Rican descent was huge in my house,” the actress confided in the caption of a video of Irene Cara performing “What a Feeling.” I was 8 when this song came out and it inspired me then and now. The power of being represented, the power of her music. »
Today’s teenagers still sing Irene Cara songs with yesterday’s teenagers, now adults. But when the voice of this icon died down, the text of “Hunger” sounds especially: “I will go to heaven / Light up the sky like a flame / (Hunger) / I will live forever / Honey, remember my name. »
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