Katreese Barnes

Katreese Barnes. January 3^rd. 1963 – August 3^rd 2019. a multi-instrumentalist, vocalist, composer, music producer and forming member of the sibling musical duo, Juicy.

Juicy was an American musical duo consisting of siblings Jerry Barnes and Katreese Barnes. The group is best known for the songs "Sugar Free" and Beat Street feature song "Beat Street Strut".

Career

Their debut single, "Don't Cha Wanna", was released in 1982 by Arista Records. In the same year, they also released their first eponymous album, which made it into the Billboard R&B chart the next year.

In 1984, their song "Beat Street Strut", released by the same label, appeared in the 1984 musical-drama movie Beat Street and its gold-certified soundtrack. The song was moderately successful on the Billboard Dance chart, peaking at #46 in July 1984.

Their second album, It Takes Two, was released in 1985. The album featured an answer record to "Juicy Fruit" called "Sugar Free". It peaked at #13 on the Billboard Black Singles chart and #45 on the UK pop chart and was certified Gold. Another moderately successful single from the album includes "Nobody But You", reaching number 59 on the R&B chart.

Their last album, Spread The Love, released in 1987, remained unsuccessful, which resulted in the disbanding of Juicy. Katreese Barnes later became a producer, songwriter and musical director for Saturday Night Live. She won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Original Music and Lyrics twice for composing music for SNL, first in 2007 for The Lonely Island's "Dick in a Box" and again in 2011 for writing a monologue for Justin Timberlake. Katreese Barnes died on August 3, 2019, at the age of 56.