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What a Feeling

by Irene Cara

First
when there's nothing but a slow glowing dream

That your fear seems to hide deep inside your mind
All alone I have cried silent tears full of pride
In a world made of steel
made of stone

Well I hear the music
close my eyes
Feel the rhythm
wrap around
take a hold of my heart

What a feeling
bein's believin'
I can have it all now I'm dancing for my life
Take your passion and make it happen
Pictures come alive
you can dance right through your life

Now I hear the music
close my eyes
I am rhythm
in a flash it takes hold of my heart

What a feeling
bein's believin'
I can have it all now I'm dancing for my life
Take your passion and make it happen
Pictures come alive now I'm dancing through my life
What a feeling.
What a feeling I am music now.
Bein's believin'
I am rhythm now
Pictures come alive
you can dance right through your life

What a feeling! I can really have it all
What a feeling! I can really have it all...

    what a feeling

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Irene Cara (born Irene Escalera on March 18, 1959 in The Bronx, New York City) is an American singer, Academy Award-winning, Grammy Award-winning, and a two-time Golden Globe-winning songwriter and actress of African, Cuban and Puerto Rican descent.

Cara won an Academy Award in 1984 in the category of Best Original Song for co-writing "Flashdance... What a Feeling". She is best known for her recordings of the songs "Fame" and "Flashdance... What a Feeling". She also starred in the 1980 film version of Fame.

Personal
Cara's father, Gaspar (died in 1994), was an Afro-Puerto Rican. Her mother Louise Escalera is of French and Cuban descent. She has two sisters and two brothers.

Married Hollywood stuntman Conrad Palmisano in 1986. They divorced in 1991.

Cara's age has been the subject of controversy: at various times her birth year has been listed as 1954, 1959 or 1964. In July 2004, the Associated Press claimed to have found her voter registration record in Florida, where she lives. However, Ms. Cara has never voted or registered to do so in Florida.

Early life
Cara first captivated the audiences of her family sometime after her fifth birthday when she began to play the piano by ear. Cara soon moved into serious studies of music, acting, and dance. At the age of three, she was one of five finalists for the Little Miss America pageant.

Cara's performing career started on Spanish-language television as a child, professionally singing and dancing. She made early TV appearances on the Ted Mack Original Amateur Hour (singing in Spanish), The Ed Sullivan Show, and Johnny Carson's The Tonight Show. By age 8, Cara recorded a Latin-market Spanish-language record; an English Christmas album soon followed. At age 10 she appeared in a major concert tribute to Duke Ellington with Stevie Wonder, Sammy Davis Jr. and Roberta Flack.