'Flashdance' Singer Irene Cara Died From High Blood Pressure, Cholesterol



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Irene Cara, the vocalist maximum recognized for her '80s hits successful "Flashdance" and "Fame", died arsenic a effect of hypertension and precocious cholesterin ... TMZ has learned.

In technological aesculapian doctors, obtained by mode of TMZ, the wellness idiosyncratic successful Pinellas County has ruled Irene's respectable origin of decease is Arteriosclerotic and Hypertensive Cardiovascular Disease ... It changed into besides noted Irene became diabetic.

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As we pronounced, the vocalist handed away connected the property of 63 successful November interior her Florida home.

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Irene's satisfactory recognised for her iconic opus "What a Feeling" from the '80s flick "Flashdance" ... She won an Oscar for Best Original Song acknowledgment to the hit.

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Irene's besides the woman successful the backmost of the way "Fame" from the movie of the aforesaid sanction ... She obtained a Golden Globe information for "Best Actress" for her presumption wrong the movie.

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Fans volition instrumentality into relationship Irene from antithetic films arsenic well... Inclusive of "City Heat," costarring Clint Eastwood and Burt Reynolds. She besides appeared successful "Certain Fury", gambling other Tatum O'Neal.

Irene's paintings and endowment did not determination unnoticed ... In 2004 she changed into venerated with the Prestige Award for Lifetime Achievement.