Barry was raised in Modesto, California. He first saw Britney Spears when he was 15 in her...Baby One More Time music video on MTV, and first went to see her in concert in 2002. His first time in drag was when he dressed as Spears for Halloween in 2003. His second time dressing as Spears was two weeks later on November 17, 2003, at the audience of The Tonight Show where Spears was a guest star. Derrick was the 2010 representative for a National anti-bullying organization Don't H8 as Miss Don't H8 DIVA where she was also awarded Hall of Fame, LEGEND Award, Lifetime Achievement Award, and Presidential Hall of Champions.
Career
Barry first gained attention when he competed on the third season of America's Got Talent in 2008, with his talent being a Britney impersonator. He made it past the auditions, but was eliminated in the quarterfinals. After the show, he appeared in the music videos for Eminem's "We Made You" and Katy Perry's "Waking Up In Vegas" in 2009. He was brought on stage by Madonna during one of her performances on her Rebel Heart Tour in 2015. It was announced that Barry would be competing with 11 other drag queens for the eighth season of RuPaul's Drag Race on February 1, 2016. He was the one-hundredth queen to be seen competing on the show in the first episode. He was eliminated in the eighth episode after losing a lip sync to Bob the Drag Queen, and placing fifth. In acting, he first appeared as the character Julie in an episode of Dig in 2015. He appeared in in 2016. He played the character Kimberly in War on Everyone in 2016. She appeared as a guest for the first challenge in the premiere of season eleven of Drag Race. She appeared with Vanessa Vanjie Mateo and Silky Nutmeg Ganache for an episode of the fourteenth season of Germany's Next Topmodel in 2019. In September 2019, at RuPaul’s DragCon NYC, Barry was named as one of a rotating cast of a dozen Drag Race queens in RuPaul's Drag Race Live!, a Las Vegas show residency from January to August 2020 at the Flamingo Las Vegas. The show will feature RuPaul’s music and seven of the twelve queens: Barry, Aquaria, Asia O'Hara, Coco Montrese, Yvie Oddly, Eureka O'Hara, India Ferrah, Kahanna Montrese, Kameron Michaels, Kim Chi, Naomi Smalls, and Shannel. Barry joined Eve in her performance of Supermodel by RuPaul during her appearance on The Talk. In 2020, Barry returned for the fifth season of RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars, where she was the first queen eliminated from the competition, placing 10th overall.
Music
Barry released his first single, "BOOMBOOM" with Chris Cox on May 6, 2016.
Personal life
As of at least January 2017, Barry is in a polyamorous relationship with Nick San Pedro and Nebraska Thunderfuck, Alaska Thunderfuck's drag daughter. In 2017, Barry created controversy when he mistakenly thought people were killed during the Stonewall riots in a Billboard roundtable discussion, which Willam corrected. Willam later used the controversy for the topic to the song, "Derrick" from her album "Now That's What I Call Drag Music Vol. 1" where she parodies the instrumental of "...Oops, I Did It Again" and references the misunderstanding. Barry later appeared alongside Willam in the music video for "Derrick."
