Claire Barry. To call her a singer is an oversimplification... like saying Picasso was just a painter... or calling a croissant a roll. She has a quality and an elegance, which sets her apart just as a diamond is set apart from a zircon.

Her career goes back decades, when as a little girl as half of the singing Barry Sisters she charmed people all through the world. The hit records and personal appearances touring the world on peace visits to Russia with Ed Sullivan, singing for Israeli troops during the Yom Kippur War (at the request of the Israeli Government), and world tours just to entertain audiences.

The death of her sister did not effect her drive and power to entertain audiences. She is an ageless powerful solo performer, who has continued to tour and electrify audiences. Live performances by Claire Barry are about transporting the audience to another place and time. Her vast repertoire includes songs in Yiddish, English, Hebrew, and Russian. Songs that make you want to dance, songs that make you want to laugh, and songs that make you want to cry.

And her audience is just as vast as her repertoire of songs. She has fans that can remember the early days of her career singing on the Yiddish Radio, all the way to fans who are the grandkids of her original radio audience. Not to mention the legion of fans that she has collected around the world during her many years of touring. Even in the twilight of her career she is still looking for the bigger and better: In June of 2004 she performed at Carnegie Hall with Neil Sedaka.