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Micah Barnes

Article by Sarah Church

Published Online July 8, 2007

Last Edited December 16, 2013

Micah Barnes. Singer, songwriter, pianist, actor, b Vienna 30 May 1960. Barnes studied voice with José Hernandez and Bill Vincent, and led his own groups from the piano in Toronto cabarets and nightclubs during the 1980s while appearing in theatre, film, TV, and radio productions.

Barnes, Micah

Micah Barnes. Singer, songwriter, pianist, actor, b Vienna 30 May 1960. Barnes studied voice with José Hernandez and Bill Vincent, and led his own groups from the piano in Toronto cabarets and nightclubs during the 1980s while appearing in theatre, film, TV, and radio productions. He was a member of the Nylons 1990-6 and later re-located to Los Angeles. He performed throughout the US, wrote the score for the rock musical Tribe, and produced a hit single on Billboard's Hot Dance Music/Club Play chart (2003).

See also Milton Barnes (his father), and Daniel Barnes (his brother).

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