Irene Cara--Flashdance...What a Feeling (1983)

     By the early 80's, Irene Cara was flying high. even before getting out of her teenaged years.  (she was born in 1959) She had been on Spanish and English television as a child, had a regular role on the soap opera, "Love of Life", had a major dramatic roll in the TV mini-series, "Roots". By 1980, she had one of the co-staring roles in the movie, "Fame", along with singing the title song and hitting #4 on the charts.
     Paramount Pictures was working on a movie called, "Flashdance" and had asked Giorgio Moroder to write music for it. Irene and Keith Forsey wrote the words to the title track, "Flashdance...What a Feeling", and Moroder first recorded it with Joe Esposio.  However, since the star of the movie was female, Paramount asked him to re-record the song with a female singer and Cara did the version that would be soon known world-wide.
    The song reached #1 in the spring of 1983 and won an Academy Award for Best Original Song, and a Golden Globe in 1984. Although Cara never reached those heights again, she has remained busy as an actress and singer most recently with her group Hot Carmel.