Rest In Peace: Katreese Barnes SNL music director who wrote "dick in a box"
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Great drop PH. I never knew Katreese Barnes was behind this. Always thought the culture vulture and other white boy actually wrote they own shit.. 
RIP Sister.
RIP Sister.
Great drop PH. I never knew Katreese Barnes was behind this. Always thought the culture vulture and other white boy actually wrote they own shit..
RIP Sister.
My bgol sister hit me with this.
It is damn CRIME I have never heard this woman mentioned
That one song made these white boys CAREERS
forget the money.
I have NEVER EVER heard Timberlake Samberg or that lonely island crew say her name out loud..
While she was alive.
Ever.
Please someone prove me wrong
I REALLY want to be wrong.
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She ain't dead. This rumor started 2 days ago and she was tweeting last night.
Not sure if she passed but her tweets look automated.
A song that will live forever …. 
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My close female friend who posts on bgol.
Yall aint ran off ALL the females from the main board yet
Its literally like 3 left. Maybe 4.
RIP
Now confirmed by her brother.
It's automated. I thought it was her too at first. Her brother confirmed. She passed.
thank you for confirmation
you mean her brother?
OP pushing her into the grave …...
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No.
R.I.H. to this gifted Sista
Wow I never knew she was the creator behind that song.
RIP gotta hit up the music section now.
RIP gotta hit up the music section now.
sadly they JUST reporting this wide now...
Katreese Barnes, Saturday Night Live’s Musical Secret Weapon, Dead at 56
By Halle Kiefer@hallekiefer
Photo: David Livingston/Getty Images
Katreese Barnes, pianist, producer, and former musical director of Saturday Night Live, died on August 3 at the age of 56. Her brother Jerry Barnes told the New York Times that Katreese passed away following a decades-long fight with breast cancer. After releasing three albums with her brother in the 1980s as the group Juicy and working with Roberta Flack, Sting, and Chaka Khan throughout the ’90s, Barnes took a position as the late-night show’s pianist in 2001, later becoming the show’s musical director.
Writing music for SNL’s live and digital sketches, Barnes won two Emmys for her work on the show, including a 2007 Original Music and Lyrics Emmy for the enduring 2006 Justin Timberlake and Andy Samberg classic “Dick in a Box,” the music for which she co-wrote with Asa Taccone, brother of Lonely Island’s Jorma Taccone. She later took home another Emmy for Timberlake’s 2011 “I’m Not Gonna Sing Tonight” musical monologue.
“Katreese was great,” Seth Meyers wrote on Twitter, one of several comedy alums posting remembrances of the musician. “Sketch writers, many with no rhythm and terrible voices, would come to her with song ideas and she would turn them into gold.”