Tempestt Bledsoe

Bledsoe has also been featured recently on television interviews, where she spoke of her experiences as a child star together with her co-stars Bill Cosby, Phylicia Rashad, Lisa Bonet, Malcolm-Jamal Warner, Keshia Knight Pulliam, and Sabrina Le Beauf. She won both the 1983 Best Original Song Academy Award and the 1984 Grammy Award for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance for "Flashdance (What A Feeling)". Since then, she has had a short-lived daytime talk show and has been featured in the role of a single mother on the ABC show The Practice. She played Coco Hernandez in Fame and Angela in romance thriller classic Aaron Loves Angela. Tempestt Bledsoe (born August 1, 1973) is an American actress who is best known for her role as Vanessa Huxtable in The Cosby Show. She sang the theme from Fame and "Flashdance (What A Feeling)". Both her parents were from Puerto Rico and in the early 1950's they migrated to the U.S..

Irene Cara (born Irene T Escalera March 18, 1959 in New York City) is a singer and actress.