So when she began making “Fame” she felt like rebelling against her parents. Cara admitted that most child actors like herself feel that they lost out on a childhood. Not only was “Fame” a watershed moment in her career, it also marked a personal independence. After doing off-Broadway, she made her Broadway debut in 1968 with Shirley Jones and Jack Cassidy in the musical “Maggie Flynn.”
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Cara, who is of Puerto Rican and Cuban heritage, sang on Spanish-language TV as well as appearing on “The Original Amateur Hour,” “The Tonight Show” and “The Electric Company” with Bill Cosby and Morgan Freeman.
The Bronx-born Cara started in show business as a 3-year-old when she was a finalist in the “Little Miss America” pageant. The second CD is a lot of jazz and even some live performances in the studio with the girls just jamming.” “There are several tunes that we wrote together and tracks we wrote separately. “Hot Caramel” is a “record for adults, it is not for kids or teens,” said Cara. I started searching for really prominent women artists who were the whole package in my mind.” “I wanted to present a super group of extraordinarily talented women musicians and singers and songwriters. “I really wanted to put all of my energies into my project,” she said. “For the last 10 years I have been developing a band,” she said by phone from her home in the Tampa Bay area, one of several places where she says she lives. Cara has a two-volume album out, “Irene Cara Presents Hot Caramel,” and is planning a 20-city tour for next year, including a stop in Los Angeles. She may have been out of sight, but she continued making music. But for the past decade, Cara has all but disappeared from view. “I think she was so much a part of the pop music and culture of the time.”Ĭara continued acting, composing and recording and performing in concerts, especially in Europe. “If you look at that period, Irene Cara captured the zeitgeist of that early 1980s,” said music film historian Jon Burlingame.
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