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Irene Cara – Breakdance (Radio Edit)



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Irene Cara is best known as a singer of movie themes, though she worked as an actress since childhood. Raised in New York City, she appeared on Broadway in 1967 in the musical Maggie Flynn at age eight and can be heard on the cast album for the show The Me Nobody Knows. From the age of 16, she was turning up on television and in films, including a part in the TV mini-series Roots 2 in 1979. In 1980, she was catapulted into stardom and a singing career by her appearance in the film Fame, for which she sang the title song, an Oscar-winning Top Ten hit. Also from the film was her Top 40 hit “Out Here on My Own.” In 1983, she topped the charts with “Flashdance…What a Feelin'” from the movie Flashdance, a song she co-wrote that won another Oscar, and Cara won a couple of Grammys for her contributions to the soundtrack. Her What a Feelin’ album included the hits “Why Me?” and “Breakdance,” and she also made the Top 40 with a third movie theme, “The Dream (Hold on to Your Dream),” from DC Cab.

28 comments

  4. Thank you for the joy of music you infused my life. Rest in peace forever dearest most respectable lady! Irena Cara's death announced today November 27th, 2022 cause not given.

  6. …I've been going to almost EVERY YT page to read comments on this Song, and I can't believe NO ONE barely remembers this TOP TEN POP (#8) tune! …She was in the same Top Ten, June, 1984, with…(cont.)

    Laura Branigan
    Night Ranger
    Lionel Richie
    Cyndi Lauper
    Duran Duran
    Pointer Sisters
    Deniece Williams
    Steve Perry
    Huey Lewis & The News

    ….WHY doesn't anybody remember this tune!?? ..RIP, Irene, you NOW, can '..live forever…'

  12. Awesome song from an awesome album…I remember listening to it during my days onboard the USS Midway…
    HAZE GRAY AND UNDERWAY BABY!
    GENERAL QUARTERS-GENERAL QUARTERS/ ALL HANDS MAN YOUR BATTLE STATIONS!
    TIME FOR THE 13:00 GO!
    UP TO THE BOW NOW FOR A FOD WALKDOWN!
    MAN OVERBOARD…MAN OVERBOARD!
    STAND CLEAR OF THE PORT (OR STARBOARD) CAT WHILE FIRING NO-LOADS…TAKE YOUR BUTT ON UP THERE HANDLER AND GET FIRED OFF!
    VASELINE AND WHIPS 115!
    HEADS UP GENTS PROPS COMING OUT!
    GOOD MORNING GENTS THIS IS YOUR CAPTAIN SPEAKING!
    Rest In Peace Ms. Irene Cara…We'll miss you.

  18. From what I read, the music part was inspired by Herbie Hancock's Rockit…and irene had to figure out how to make a song from this…and was inspired by break dancing..popular in her neighborhood growing up.

  21. Totally 80s!!! My dad had the original cassette tape of this album back in 1983 and would play it in the car often back when I was a little kid.Loved Irene's music eversince,this track really takes me back to my childhood years.R.I.P Irene 😢 you'll be greatly missed but your music will live on forever.

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