Juicy was an American musical duo consisting of siblings Jerry Barnes (of the band CHIC) 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 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 peaked at #46 on Billboard Dance chart in July 1984. "Sugar Free" has since been sampled by AZ for his song "Sugar Hill" among other artists.
Their second album It Takes Two was released in 1985. The album featured an answer record to the Mtume song "Juicy Fruit" called "Sugar Free". It peaked at #13 on the Billboard R&B chart and #45 on the UK Singles Chart. Another moderately successful single from the album include "Nobody but You", reaching number 59 on the R&B chart.
Their last album, Spread the Love, released in 1987, was commercially unsuccessful, resulting in Juicy's disbanding. Katreese Barnes later became a producer, songwriter and the 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 as co-writer of The Lonely Island's "Dick in a Box" and again in 2011 for writing a monologue for Justin Timberlake. Katreese Barnes died of breast cancer on August 3, 2019, at the age of 56.
Discography
Studio albums Year Album Peaks Record Label USR&B 1982 Juicy 57 Arista 1985 It Takes Two 32 Private I 1987 Spread the Love — CBS Associated "—" denotes a recording that did not chart.
Singles Year Single Peak chart positions Album US USR&B USDan UK 1982 "I've Got Something" — — — — Juicy "Don't Cha Wanna" — — — — 1983 "Love's a Merry-Go-'Round" — 75 — — "You're Number One" — — — — 1984 "Beat Street Strut" 107 76 27 — Beat Street 1985 "Bad Boy" — 41 — — It Takes Two "It Takes Two" — 72 — — 1986 "Sugar Free" — 13 — 45 "Nobody but You" — 59 — — 1987 "After Loving You" — — — 84 Spread the Love "All Work, No Play" — — — — "—" denotes a recording that did not chart.
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