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Barbra Streisand Philadelphia Tickets
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
