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About Barbra Streisand

Barbra Streisand was born on April 24, 1942. Streisand is considered by many to be a diva who has enjoyed success across many media including radio, television, and cinema. She is loved by millions and has had a career in entertainment that's spanned decades.

Streisand is a two-time Academy Award-winning American singer/songwriter, theater and film actor, composer, film producer and film director. Barbra Streisand won her Oscars for Best Actress & Best Original Song.

Streisand's Singing career
Barbra Streisand has recorded more than 60 albums, almost all with the Columbia Records label. Her early works in the 1960s (her debut, The Second Barbra Streisand Album, The Third Album, My Name Is Barbra, etc.) are considered classic renditions of theatre and nightclub standards, including her famously ironic version of "Happy Days Are Here Again". Beginning with My Name Is Barbra her albums were often medley-filled keepsakes of her television specials.

Starting in 1969, Streisand tackled contemporary songwriters; she floundered on attempts to tackle rock, but finally found success with the pop and ballad-oriented, Richard Perry-produced Stoney End in 1971, whose Laura Nyro-written title track was a big hit.

Barbra's Guilty
Streisand's 1980 album, Guilty featured the songwriting, production and vocal talents of Barry Gibb and was one of her biggest successesDuring the 1970s she was also highly prominent in the pop charts, with number-one records like "The Way We Were", "Evergreen", "No More Tears (Enough Is Enough)" and "Woman In Love"; some of these came from soundtrack records to her films.

When the 1970s ended, Streisand was named the most successful female singer in the U.S., with only Elvis Presley and The Beatles having sold more albums. In 1982, music critic Stephen Holden wrote that Streisand was "The most influential mainstream American pop singer since Frank Sinatra."

The 8th Grammy for Streisand
Streisand returned to her musical theater roots with 1985's The Broadway Album. This was an unexpected commercial success, holding the coveted #1 Billboard position for 3 weeks straight, and being certified 3x Platinum. The album featured some songs reworked by Stephen Sondheim especially for this recording, was critically acclaimed, nominated as Album of the Year and landed Streisand her 8th Grammy as Best Female Vocalist.

In 1991 a four-disc box set, entitled Just for the Record was released, spanning Streisand's entire career. It featured over 70 tracks, including live material, greatest hits, and rarities, from her early recordings up to 1991.

Around 1992, however, music success was not in Streisand's favor. She was again, proclaimed the most influential entertainer by the New York Times, for her relationship with President Bill Clinton. Streisand's concert fundraising events helped propel Clinton into the spotlight and into office. Streisand later introduced Clinton at his inauguration in 1992. However, Streisand's music career was on hold. A concert tour was suggested to her and she debated it for nearly 2 yrs, due to her immense stage fright. A year later, Streisand landed yet another #1 Back to Broadway (another show-tunes themed piece).

Barbra Streisand concert dubbed "The Music Event of the Century"
In September 1993, Streisand made news again, announcing her first public concert tour in 27 years. Tickets to the limited tour were sold out in under 1 hr. Streisand also hit the cover of every major magazine, in anticipation of what Time magazine named, "The Music Event of the Century." The tour was one of the biggest all-media merchandise parlays in history. Ticket prices ranged from $50 to $1,500 - making Streisand the highest paid concert performer in history. Barbra Streisand: The Concert, went on to be the top grossing concert of the year, earned 2 Emmy Awards, the prestigious Peabody Award, and the taped broadcast on HBO is to-date, the highest rated concert special in HBO's 30 year history.

On New Year's Eve 1999 she returned to the concert stage, scoring another personal triumph for giving the highest grossing single concert in Las Vegas history to date. At the end of the last millennium, she still was the number-one female singer in the United States, with at least 2 #1 albums in each decade since she had started out.

Barbara Streisand Guilty sequel
Her most recent albums have been Christmas Memories (2001), a collection of somber holiday songs, and The Movie Album (2003), featuring famous movie themes and backed by a large symphony orchestra. Guilty Pleasures (called Guilty Too in the UK), a collaboration with Barry Gibb and a sequel album to their previous Guilty, was released worldwide in 2005.

Awards for Barbra Streisand
Over the years, Streisand has been the recipient of an award in every medium she has worked in. Among her many awards are two Oscars, six Emmys, eleven Golden Globes, ten Grammys, a Tony award, two Cable Ace awards, the American Film Institute's Lifetime Achievement Award, as well as a number of other awards.

In 1995 she received a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award. As of 2005, her U.S. album sales rank her as the top-selling female recording artist in the U.S.

Barbra Streisand Performances on Broadway
I Can Get It for You Wholesale (1962), musical - Tony Nomination for Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Musical
Funny Girl (1964), musical - Tony Nomination for Best Leading Actress in a Musical