Fame remember my name irene cara biography
Fame remember my name irene cara biography
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Will “somebody, anybody sing a Black girl’s song,” Ntozake Shange offers in her formative choreopoem, “For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide.” For generations of Black girls, Irene Cara answered the evolving call to sing a Black girl’s song.
Irene Cara Escalera (b.
March 18, 1959, d.
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November 25, 2022) was first widely recognized for singing the Black girl’s song when she rose to international stardom for her breakout role in “Fame” (1980). Performing the Oscar-winning, jubilant title track and representing Black girls destined to make something out of nothing, Cara played Coco Hernandez in the film about the competitive nature of young stardom on the battleground of a performing arts high school.
In a character that reflected Cara’s reality, Coco was an Afro-Latina bur