Barbra Streisand

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You Don't Bring Me Flowers

Woman in Love

Memory

The Way We Were

People

The Music of the Night

I Won’t Be the one to Let Go

Evergreen

Duet with Neil Diamond

Duet with Michael Crawford

Duet with Barry Manilow

Biography

Barbra Joan Streisand, born April 24, 1942, is an American singer-songwriter, actress, writer, film producer, and director.

She has won 2 Academy Awards, 11 Golden Globes, 10 Grammy Awards, 5 Emmy Awards including one Daytime Emmy, a Special Tony Award, an American Film Institute award, a Kennedy Center Honors award, a Peabody Award. She is one of the most commercially and critically successful entertainers in modern entertainment history, with more than 71.5 million albums shipped in the United States and 145 million records sold worldwide.

She is the best-selling female artist on the Recording Industry Association of America's (RIAA) Top Selling Album Artists list, the only female recording artist in the top ten, and the only artist outside of the rock and roll genre.

After beginning a successful recording career in the 1960s, by the end of the decade, Streisand ventured into film starring in the critically acclaimed “Funny Girl” (1968) and “Hello, Dolly!” (1969), the former for which she won the Academy Award and Golden Globe Award for Best Actress.

Other notable films include, “The Way We Were” and “A Star Is Born” for which she received her second Academy Award for composing the lyrics to the picture’s main song, Evergreen.

Streisand established herself as one of the film industry’s most notable figures during the 80’s, by becoming the first woman to direct, produce, script and star in her own picture. According to the RIAA, Streisand holds the record for the most top-ten albums of any female recording artist, a total of 36 since 1963.

Streisand has the widest span (48 years) between first and latest top-ten albums of any female recording artist. With her 2009 album, Love Is the Answer, she became one of the rare artists to achieve number-one albums in five consecutive decades. According to the RIAA, she has released 51 Gold albums, 30 Platinum albums, and 13 Multi-Platinum albums in the United States.

Career Milestones

1960 - Achieved success as a singer at “The Lion”, a popular nightclub in Manhattan's Greenwich Village

1960 - Stage acting debut, "The Insect Comedy"

1961 - First television appearance, "The Tonight Show" (NBC) with host Jack Paar

1961 - Made off-Broadway debut in the revue "Another Evening with Harry Stoones"

1962 - Made Broadway debut in "I Can Get It For You Wholesale“, as the secretary Miss Marmelstein; received a Tony nomination.

1962 - Put under contract by Columbia Records in October

1963 - Released first solo album “The Barbra Streisand Album”

1964 - Breakthrough stage role, played Fanny Brice in "Funny Girl"; received second Tony nomination.

1966 - Made London stage debut reprising her Broadway success in "Funny Girl"

1968 - Made film debut in director William Wyler's adaptation of "Funny Girl“

1969 - Starred in the overblown film version of "Hello, Dolly!" directed by Gene Kelly

1972 - Delivered a fine comic turn in "What's Up, Doc?"; first screen teaming with Ryan O'Neal

1972 - Formed Barwood Films; first Barwood-produced film, "Up the Sandbox"

1973 - Appeared opposite Robert Redford in "The Way We Were"; also sang the theme song; earned a Best Actress Oscar nomination

1974 - Reprised role of Fanny Brice in the sequel "Funny Lady"

1976 - First film as executive producer, "A Star Is Born"; also starred and composed some of the songs

1979 - Produced first film "The Main Event"; re-teamed on screen with Ryan O'Neal

1983 - Made feature directorial and screenwriting (co-writer) debut with “ Yentl "; also produced and played the title role of a woman who poses as a boy to study the Talmud

1985 - Returned to theatrical roots with The Broadway Album

1987 - Starred as an upper-class woman forced into prostitution and accused of murdering one of her clients in "Nuts"; also served as producer and composer

1991 - Directed Oscar-nominated Best Picture "The Prince of Tides"; also starred and served as a producer

1993 - Released second recording of theater music Back to Broadway

1994 - Headlined landmark multi-city concert tour; concerts were taped and aired first on HBO and in a slightly revised form on CBS

1995 - Executive produced the Emmy winning TV movie "Serving in Silence: The Margarethe Cammermeyer Story" (NBC).

1996 - Directed third film "The Mirror Has Two Faces"; also starred, produced, and contributed to the score

1999 - Headlined a "farewell" concert tour with concerts in Las Vegas on 1999 New Year's Eve and New Year's Day 2000; aired on Fox in 2001 as "Barbra Streisand Timeless"

2000 - Executive produced Showtime original movie "Frankie and Hazel"

2000 - Executive produced a series of PBS specials that aired under the umbrella title "The Living Century"

2001 - Executive produced Showtime original movie "Varian's War"

2001 - Served as executive producer of Lifetime lesbian-themed movie "What Makes a Family"

2003 - Received Grammy nomination for Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album for The Movie Album

2004 - Teamed with Dustin Hoffman to play Ben Stiller's parents in "Meet the Fockers"

2010 - Reprised role of Ben Stiller's mother Roz Focker in "Little Fockers"

2012 - Co-starred with Seth Rogen as a mother-and-son duo driving cross-country in "The Guilt Trip"; also executive produced

2012 - Compiled previously unreleased tracks into the album “Release Me”

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