Kandi Barbour was discovered in the mid-'70s by photographer Diana Hardy and got her start posing for men's magazines before making the leap into adult movies in 1978.

She was perhaps best known as the poster girl of Cecil Howard's landmark 1981 film Neon Nights, once named by AVN as one of the 101 greatest adult videos of all time.

Some of Barbour's other notable credits include Chuck Vincent's Bon Appetit (Video-X-Pix, 1980), Richard Mahler's Pink Ladies (VCA, 1980) and Warren Evans' Pandora's Mirror (Caballero, 1981).

Barbour gave her final XXX performance in 1987 in the Ron Jeremy-directed X-Effect (XTC Studios). She was inducted in 2009 into the Pioneers branch of the X-Rated Critics Organization (XRCO) Hall of Fame.