Marcia Barrett

Marcia Barrett (born 14 October 1948) is a British singer and one of the original singers with the vocal group Boney M.

Early years

Barrett was born in Saint Catherine Parish, British Jamaica. Her family later emigrated to Croydon, England. In the late 1960s she moved to Germany, where she joined a band and toured with Karel Gott and Rex Gildo. In 1971 she signed to Metronome Records and made her first record, "Could Be Love", written by Joe Menke and Frank Valdor. At the same time, she kept touring, with such songs as "Son of a Preacher Man", "Oh Happy Day" and "Big Spender".

Boney M. early era

In 1975, she joined Boney M., a group of models and dancers, to make discothèque and television performances of "Baby Do You Wanna Bump", a song recorded by record producer Frank Farian. The single was sold in the Benelux countries. When singer Claudja Barry left in early 1976, Barrett suggested a fellow Jamaican, Liz Mitchell, as replacement. Mitchell was a singer, and Farian engaged her and Barrett to make a follow-up recording, "Daddy Cool". They recorded Boney M.'s first album, Take the Heat Off Me, in 1976. After an appearance on the German television programme Musikladen in...

Read full biography on Wikipedia →