#RestInPower: Remembering The Celebs We Lost In 2019 - Page 12
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Charise Frazier
Katresse Barnes
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Barnes was a talented musician, composer and the former musical director of Saturday Night Live. She died on August 3 at the age of 56 after battling breast cancer. In the 1980’s Barnes and her brother formed the R&B duo Juicy and produced three albums. During her tenure as SNL‘s musical director she won an Emmy Award for Outstanding Original Music and Lyrics twice, first in 2007 for The Lonely Island’s “D–k in a Box” and again in 2011 for the “I’m Not Gonna Sing Tonight” musical monologue delivered by Justin Timberlake.
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