Adam Barta

Adam Steven Barta (born September 21, 1979) is an American actor, reality star, and musician from the Bronx, New York.

He has had four charting singles on the Billboard Dance Chart and is known for his duets and viral videos with Alana Thompson (Honey Boo Boo) from Here Comes Honey Boo Boo, Farrah Abraham, Margaret Cho, Nadya Suleman (Octomom), Tan Mom, Eureka O'Hara, Mariah Lynn (from Love and Hip Hop New York), and Jonah Falcon.

Barta is also known for his collaborations with Kathy Sledge (of Sister Sledge) and music videos featuring Lisa Lampanelli that have landed him in TMZ.

In 1999, Barta appeared in the Comedy Central series Strangers with Candy.

His music video hit the Number 1 spot on Logo's Click List in August, and was one of the top 10 videos of 2007.

He was named favorite Click List artist of 2007 and made No. 96 on AfterElton.com's Hot 100 for 2008.

His video was also picked up internationally on Canada's Only Dance Channel.

The music video for "Standing in the Rain" premiered October 1, 2008, on Logo network's new mainstream dance/pop show Pop Lab, hosted by Solange and Lady Gaga.

Barta hosted the Spring Break episode of Pop Lab on March 11.

In September 2009, his music video for "Standing in the Rain" was voted No. 1 on Logo's Ultimate Sexiest Music Video Countdown.

The music video for "VIP" was filmed in December 2009 and contains cameos from The Real World: Hollywood's Nick Brown, Project Runway's Nicholas Putvinski, Michael Musto, Reina, and Jipsta.

It premiered on Pop Lab on Logo on April 13, 2010.

"VIP" was featured on the premiere of season 6 episode of The Bad Girls Club and also on The Real World: Las Vegas.

In January 2011, he was featured on the show Face to Face with Ke$ha on the HERE!

Network, although the two were not filmed together.

His next single was with Kathy Sledge (lead singer of Sister Sledge), a dance song produced by Mike Rizzo and Mr. Mig, called "Give Yourself Up (To The Music)."

It was released on June 14 on Ingrooves/Universal Dist. Sledge performed it on The Oprah Winfrey Show in April to promote it.

In September, the song debuted on the Billboard club chart at #45*.

In August, Barta filmed a music video starring reality celebrities Kim Granatell of The Real Housewives of New Jersey, Miguel Allure from Jerseylicious, Tonye 'Tone Tone' Albanese from Cake Boss, Jack Mackenroth from Project Runway, and Robin Kassner from Millionaire Matchmaker.

The video featured Sledge's daughter Kristin.

In 2012, he filmed scenes for his music video "Q&A" with Celebrity Apprentice's Lisa Lampanelli at the Night of a Thousand Gowns, in NYC, where he also was a headliner with her.

Barta's first single, "I Wanna Hold You", was produced by Mike Rizzo and was picked up on Abercrombie & Fitch's official playlist.

It was Barta's first charting Billboard Dance Chart single and hit No. 55 on the chart.

EsNtion Records signed Barta to a record deal for which his first single was "Standing in the Rain," with DJ Russ Harris.

In May 2012 he released the music video for his single "Q&A" featuring Lisa Lampanelli, Michael Musto, Ro Bear (from NY Ink), Hailey Glassman, Kerry Schwartz, Tone Tone (from Cake Boss), Harry Legg, JC Alvarez, Ryan Nikulas (from The A-List: New York on Logo).

Shortly after in June, he signed with Gina Rodriguez of DD Entertainment.

It was then announced he would be heading into the recording studio for a new single with Nadya Suleman (Octomom), after she appeared in an alternate cut of the "Q&A" music video where she was heard saying, "Let's do a duet...on my new album!"

He recorded with Suleman on June 20, at Audiomaxx Studios in Cherry Hill, NJ.

The song was produced by Mr. Mig and Mike Rizzo.

Barta's song with Suleman was supposed to be called "Meet Me on the Dance Floor" and was slated to be released in August on Global Groove Entertainment.

In 2017, he starred on the WE tv series Dr. Miami.

In 2018 he released a single called "Peep Me Tonight" with hip-hop star Mariahlynn.

In 2018 he released the viral hit, "Free 2 Be Me" with "Tan Mom" Patricia Krentcil which Howard Stern called an "earworm" and "the greatest song of all time."

In December, Howard announced the music video had hit over a half million views in the first few days, as one of their most viewed videos of all time.

In 2022 he created, starred in and executive produced the series #THEDISH, with "Mama June" Shannon, and featuring Tammie Brown.

It premiered August 30 on Apple TV and Vudu.

On October 1, it debuted on Tubi TV.

In August, Shannon went on to sue Barta on a live televised appearance, and won credit as an executive producer on the series.

Barta started his career doing off-Broadway theatre.

He played Tash in Befriending Beau, alongside Eric Millegan.