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She covered a Prince song called "When 2 R in Love" in 1992 on Radikal Records.
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The singles "Love Is An Island" (1991) and "Summer of Love" (1992) are highly regarded club hits to those who know them. She still remained active recording a pair of underground club classics during the early 1990s. "Down and Counting" was the lead single from her album, I, Claudja, her only full-length record for Epic Records.Īfter her run at Epic did not result in another album, she focused her music career on her fans in Canada and abroad. Barry had further successes on that chart with the singles "Can't You Feel My Heartbeat" (No.
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98 on the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Singles & Tracks. At the time, the song also became only her third single to chart outside of the Billboard Club Songs chart in the U.S., peaking at a No. On the Hot Dance Music/Club Play chart, she has had much more success: six Top 10 hits, including " Down and Counting", which spent a week at No. Dance format radio stations in the United States did not give it major exposure since the album it was lifted from was a UK-only release.
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This single was produced by Jürgen Korduletsch with New York City based Hi-NRG producer, singer, and songwriter, Bobby Orlando. The year 1985 also saw the release of the single, "Born To Love" which sounds similar to a Pet Shop Boys or Erasure song. In 1985, she appeared in the movie, Rappin', starring Mario Van Peebles. It featured the lead single "Radio Action", which became a moderate club hit peaking at No. In 1981, she made a successful foray into new wave/ Hi-NRG music with the album Made in Hong Kong. With the release of her Feel The Fire album in 1980, Claudja's songs were becoming highly synthesized – this was her final album to feature an earthier, more horn & string approach to the production of her music. Also in 1979, she won a Juno Award for being the Most Promising Female Vocalist of the Year. album, received Canadian airplay, sharing the charts with "Dancin' Shoes" and reaching No. In 1976, the soulful ballad, "Love for the Sake of Love", received airplay and in 1979, the single, "Boogie Tonight", from the I Wanna. All her studio albums were produced in Germany by Jürgen Korduletsch. 7 on the RPM 100 national chart on 7 April 1979 and remained on the chart for 23 weeks) as well as in Europe. Both became major mainstream pop hits in Canada (where "Dancin' Shoes" peaked at No. 56 in 1979) from the album I Wanna Be Loved By You, released in 1978. 72, off The Girl Most Likely album, the other song being "Boogie Woogie Dancin' Shoes" (R&B No. She had two Billboard Hot 100 entries, the first being "Dancin' Fever" which peaked at No. It was released in Canada under the Hansa label.īarry had some success with her recordings. That same year she signed with Hot Foot label and released a single called "Reggae Bump". The play toured Europe where she eventually wound up in West Germany in the spring of 1975. After graduation from high school, Barry left for London where she eventually landed a role in the musical AC/DC by Heathcote Williams and after that in a German production of Catch My Soul. At the age of six, Barry and her family emigrated from Jamaica to Scarborough, Ontario, Canada.