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Irene Cara Escalera was born and raised in the Bronx, New York City, the youngest of five children. Her father, Gaspar Cara, a steel factory worker and retired saxophonist, was Puerto Rican, and her mother, Louise Escalera, a movie theater usher, was Cuban. Cara had two sisters and two brothers.
Nov 28, 2022 · Irene did not have children. She married film director and stuntman Conrad E. Palmisano in April 1986. However, the two did not raise a family. Sources claim that the two met on the film set of A...
Dec 5, 2022 · Cara’s neighbors in Largo, Fla. — where the hit ’80s singer-songwriter-actress died Nov. 25 at age 63 — said she lived like a hermit in recent years and guarded her privacy obsessively ...
Nov 26, 2022 · At 13, she was a regular on “The Electric Company,” a children’s show broadcast mostly on public television in the 1970s. Aaron Rapoport/Corbis, via Getty Images. Her mother, Louise Escalera,...
Nov 26, 2022 · Cara's publicist, who announced her death, said she died at home in Florida but the cause is "currently unknown". Born in 1959 in the Bronx, New York City, Cara was the youngest of five...
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Beginning shortly after realizing their daughter's natural talent, Irene was quickly enrolled in music, acting, and dance classes. Shortly before that, her mother entered her into multiple competitions and at the age of three, Irene was a finalist in the "Little Miss America" pageant.
