Fame on my own irene cara biography

Irene Cara Escalera was a singer, actress and songwriter, who was most famous for recording the title song to the movie “Fame.” Cara was born on March 18, 1959 in the Bronx section of New York City, New York.

Her mother, Louise Escalera, was of Cuban descent, and worked as a movie theater usher, while her father, Gaspar Cara, who was Puerto Rican with Afro-Caribbean descent, played saxophone in a mambo band and worked in a steel factory.

By the time Cara was two years old, she began to display natural musical abilities.

She was a contestant in multiple competitions from singing to beauty, and was a finalist for the ‘Little Miss America’ pageant at the age of three. By age five she began playing the piano by ear, singing with her fathers band, and studied acting, dancing, and music at a private school.

Cara recorded an album in Spanish, entitled E’sta es Iene, and a Christmas album in English when she was just eight.

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