From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Barbara McNair (March 4, 1934 – February 4, 2007) was an African-American singer and actress. Born Barbara Joan McNair in Chicago, Illinois and raised in Racine, ...

Barbara McNair, the pioneering black singer-actress who hosted her own TV variety show and twice played Sidney Poitier’s wife in the early 1970s, died Sunday in Los Angeles of throat cancer. She was ...