Irene Cara, Academy Award Winner, Actress

Irene Cara shares about her new band, Hot Caramel. As
an actress, Irene Cara received the Image Award for Best Actress
for her work with Diahann Carroll in the NBC Movie of the Week,
Sisters. She received an NAACP Image Award Nomination for her
portrayal of Myrlie Evers in the PBS movie on Civil Rights Leader
Medger Evers “For Us the Living." For Flashdance Irene Cara won 5
major awards, including Top Female Vocalist-Pop Singles and Pop
Single of the Year. As a songwriter her talent earned her an
Academy Award, 2 Grammys, a Golden Globe and a Peoples Choice
Award for Flashdance. Irene Cara was the first African American
female to win since Hattie McDaniel in 1939, plus the first
Hispanic female since Rita Moreno and the first bi-racial female
ever to win in any category - pre-dating Halle Berry by nearly 20
years.