Career
Barnes-Kennerly recorded in the 1960s for Detroit"s Mickay Records and Coral Records, a Decca Records label. While never signing with Motown Records, she opened for a number of its stars, including Wonder, Marvin Gaye and Gladys Knight. Barnes died in May 2015, in Saint Thomas in the United States. Virgin Islands, where she went for a performance, friend and bass player, Ralphe Armstrong told the Detroit Free Press.
She had at least two strokes in recent years and died of heart failure, she was 70.