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Barbra Streisand

January 05, 2023

"Streisand" redirects here. For her tour, see Streisand (concert tour). For the phenomenon named after her, see Streisand effect.
For other uses, see Barbra Streisand (disambiguation).

Barbara Joan "Barbra" Streisand (/ˈstraɪsænd/; born April 24, 1942) is an American singer, actress and director. With a career spanning over six decades, she has achieved success in multiple fields of entertainment, and is among the few performers awarded an Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, and Tony (EGOT).

Barbra Streisand
Streisand in 2018
Born
Barbara Joan Streisand

(1942-04-24) April 24, 1942 (age 80)
New York City, U.S.
EducationErasmus Hall High School
Occupations
  • Singer
  • actress
  • filmmaker
WorksDiscography
Spouses
Partners
ChildrenJason Gould
Relatives
AwardsFull list
Musical career
Genres
Instrument(s)Vocals
Years active1960–present
LabelsColumbia
Websitebarbrastreisand.com

Streisand began her career by performing in nightclubs and Broadway theaters in the early 1960s. Following her guest appearances on various television shows, she signed to Columbia Records, insisting that she retain full artistic control, and accepting lower pay in exchange, an arrangement that continued throughout her career,[1] and released her debut The Barbra Streisand Album (1963), which won the Grammy Award for Album of the Year. Throughout her recording career, Streisand has topped the US Billboard 200 chart with 11 albums—a record for a woman—including People (1964), The Way We Were (1974), Guilty (1980), and The Broadway Album (1985).[2] She also achieved five number-one singles on the US Billboard Hot 100—"The Way We Were", "Evergreen", "You Don't Bring Me Flowers", "No More Tears (Enough Is Enough)", and "Woman in Love".

Following her established recording success in the 1960s, Streisand ventured into film by the end of that decade.[3] She starred in the critically acclaimed Funny Girl (1968), for which she won the Academy Award for Best Actress.[4] Additional fame followed with films including the extravagant musical Hello, Dolly! (1969), the screwball comedy What's Up, Doc? (1972), and the romantic drama The Way We Were (1973). Streisand won a second Academy Award for writing the love theme from A Star Is Born (1976), the first woman to be honored as a composer.[5] With the release of Yentl (1983), Streisand became the first woman to write, produce, direct, and star in a major studio film.[6] The film won an Oscar for Best Original Score and a Golden Globe for Best Motion Picture Musical. Streisand also received the Golden Globe Award for Best Director, becoming the first (and for 37 years, the only) woman to win that award. Streisand later directed The Prince of Tides (1991) and The Mirror Has Two Faces (1996).

With sales exceeding 150 million records worldwide, Streisand is one of the best-selling recording artists of all time.[7][8] According to the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), she is the second highest-certified female artist in the United States, with 68.5 million certified album units.[9] Billboard ranked Streisand as the greatest female artist on the Billboard 200 chart and the top Adult Contemporary female artist of all time.[10][11] Her accolades include two Academy Awards,[12] 10 Grammy Awards including the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award and the Grammy Legend Award,[13] five Emmy Awards, four Peabody Awards,[14] the Presidential Medal of Freedom,[15] and nine Golden Globes.[16]

Early life

Family

Streisand was born on April 24, 1942, in Brooklyn, New York City, the daughter of Diana Ida (née Rosen; 1908–2002)[17] and Emanuel Streisand. Her mother had been a soprano in her youth and considered a career in music, but later became a school secretary.[18] Her father was a high school teacher at the same school, where they first met.[19] Streisand's family is Jewish.[20][21][22] Her paternal grandparents emigrated from Galicia (modern-day Poland and Ukraine) in the Austro-Hungarian Empire and her maternal grandparents from the Russian Empire, where her grandfather had been a cantor.[23][24]

In August 1943, a few months after Streisand's first birthday, her father died at age 34 from complications from an epileptic seizure, possibly the result of a head injury years earlier.[25]: 3  The family fell into near-poverty, with her mother working as a low-paid bookkeeper.[26] As an adult, Streisand remembered those early years as always feeling like an "outcast", explaining, "Everybody else's father came home from work at the end of the day. Mine didn't."[25]: 3  Her mother tried to pay their bills but could not give her daughter the attention she craved: "When I wanted love from my mother, she gave me food," Streisand says.[25]: 3 

Streisand recalls that her mother had a "great voice" and sang semi-professionally on occasion. During a visit to the Catskills when Streisand was 13, she told Rosie O'Donnell, she and her mother recorded some songs on tape. That session was the first time Streisand ever asserted herself as an artist, which also became her "first moment of inspiration".[27]

She has an older brother, Sheldon, and a half-sister, singer Roslyn Kind,[28][29][30] from her mother's remarriage to Louis Kind in 1950.[31][32]

Education

Streisand began her education at the Jewish Orthodox Yeshiva of Brooklyn when she was five.[33] She was considered bright and inquisitive about everything; however, she lacked discipline, often shouting answers to questions out of turn.[34][25]: 3  She next entered Public School 89 in Brooklyn, and during those early school years began watching television and going to movies. "I always wanted to be somebody, to be famous ...You know, get out of Brooklyn."[25]: 3 

Streisand became known by others in the neighborhood for her voice. With the other kids she remembers sitting on the stoop in front of their apartment building and singing: "I was considered the girl on the block with the good voice."[25]: 3  That talent became a way for her to gain attention. She would often practice her singing in the hallway of her apartment building which gave her voice an echoing quality.[35]

She made her singing debut at a PTA assembly, where she became a hit to everyone but her mother, who was mostly critical of her daughter. Streisand was invited to sing at weddings and summer camp, along with having an unsuccessful audition at MGM records when she was nine. By the time she was 13, her mother began supporting her talent, helping her make a four-song demo tape, including "Zing! Went the Strings of My Heart", and "You'll Never Know".[25]: 4 

Becoming an actress was her main objective. That desire was made stronger when she saw her first Broadway play, The Diary of Anne Frank when she was 14. The star in the play was Susan Strasberg, whose acting she wanted to emulate.[25]: 4  Streisand began spending her spare time in the library, studying the biographies of various stage actresses such as Eleanora Duse and Sarah Bernhardt. In addition, she began reading novels and plays and studying the acting theories of Konstantin Stanislavski and Michael Chekhov.[25]: 4 

She attended Erasmus Hall High School in Brooklyn in 1956 where she became an honor student in modern history, English, and Spanish. She also joined the Freshman Chorus and Choral Club, where she sang with another choir member and classmate, Neil Diamond.[36] Diamond recalls, "We were two poor kids in Brooklyn. We hung out in the front of Erasmus High and smoked cigarettes." The school was near an art-movie house, and he recalls that she was always aware of the films they were showing.[37] She had a crush on 15-year-old US Chess Champion and fellow student Bobby Fischer, whom she found to be "very sexy".[38][39]

During the summer of 1957, she got her first stage experience as a walk-on at the Playhouse in Malden Bridge, New York. That small part was followed by a role as the kid sister in Picnic and one as a vamp in Desk Set.[25]: 4  In her second year, she took a night job at the Cherry Lane Theatre in Greenwich Village helping backstage. When she was a senior, she rehearsed for a small part in Driftwood, a play staged in a midtown attic space.[25]: 5 

She graduated, aged 16, from Erasmus Hall in January 1959, and despite her mother's pleas that she stay out of show business, she set out trying to get roles on the New York City stage.[25]: 5  After renting a small apartment on 48th street in the heart of the theater district, she accepted any job she could involving the stage, and at every opportunity, she "made the rounds" of the casting offices.[25]: 5 

Career beginnings

 
Streisand, c. 1962

Aged 16 and living on her own, Streisand took various menial jobs to have some income. During one period, she lacked a permanent address, and found herself sleeping at the home of friends or anywhere else she could set up the army cot she carried around. When desperate, she returned to her mother's flat in Brooklyn for a home-cooked meal. However, her mother was horrified by her daughter's "gypsy-like lifestyle", wrote biographer Karen Swenson, and again begged her to give up trying to get into show business,[25]: 6  but Streisand took her mother's pleadings as even more reason to keep trying: "My desires were strengthened by wanting to prove to my mother that I could be a star."[25]: 6 

She took a job as an usher at the Lunt-Fontanne Theater for The Sound of Music early in 1960. During the run of the play, she heard that the casting director was auditioning for more singers, and it marked the first time she sang in pursuit of a job.[25]: 6  Although the director felt she was not right for the part, he encouraged her to begin including her talent as a singer on her résumé when looking for other work.[25]: 6 

She asked her boyfriend, Barry Dennen, to tape her singing, copies of which she could then give out to possible employers. Dennen found a guitarist to accompany her:

We spent the afternoon taping, and the moment I heard the first playback I went insane ... This nutty little kook had one of the most breathtaking voices I'd ever heard ... when she was finished and I turned off the machine, I needed a long moment before I dared look up at her.[25]: 6 

Dennen grew enthusiastic and he convinced her to enter a talent contest at the Lion, a gay nightclub in Manhattan's Greenwich Village. She performed two songs, after which there was a "stunned silence" from the audience, followed by "thunderous applause" when she was pronounced the winner.[25]: 7  She was invited back and sang at the club for several weeks.[40] It was during this time that she dropped the second "a" from her first name,[40] switching from "Barbara" to "Barbra", due to her dislike of her original name.[41]

In the early days Streisand was repeatedly told she was too ugly to be a star and advised to get a nose job, which she did not do.[1]

Nightclub shows

Streisand was next asked to audition at the Bon Soir nightclub, after which she was signed up at $125 a week. It became her first professional engagement in September 1960, where she was the opening act for comedian Phyllis Diller. She recalls it was the first time she had been in that kind of upscale environment: "I'd never been in a nightclub until I sang in one."[25]: 7 

Dennen now wanted to expose Streisand to his vast record collection of female singers, including Billie Holiday, Mabel Mercer, Ethel Waters, and Édith Piaf. Streisand realized she could still become an actress by first gaining recognition as a singer.[25]: 7  From his collection she drew the song that best defined her mission in singing: A Sleepin' Bee, with music by Harold Arlen and lyrics by Truman Capote for the 1954 musical House of flowers. "The lyrics to that song gave me the three acts of a play that I longed for as an actress," Streisand said. "And Harold was one of those writers who could write these magnificent melodies. That gave me what I needed."[42] According to biographer Christopher Nickens, hearing other great female singers benefited her style, as she began creating different emotional characters when performing, which gave her singing a greater range.

She improved her stage presence when speaking to the audience between songs. She discovered that her Brooklyn-bred style of humor was received favorably.[25]: 8  During the next six months appearing at the club, some began comparing her singing voice to famous names such as Judy Garland, Lena Horne and Fanny Brice. Her conversational ability to charm an audience with spontaneous humor during performances became more sophisticated and professional.[25]: 8  Theater critic Leonard Harris wrote: "She's twenty; by the time she's thirty she will have rewritten the record books."[25]: 9 

Her name is Barbra Streisand. She is 20 years old, she has a three-octave promiscuity of range, she packs more personal dynamic power than anybody I can recall since Libby Holman or Helen Morgan. She can sing as loud as Ethel Merman and as persuasively as Lena or Ella, or as brassy as a Sophie Tucker ... and only Barbra Streisand can turn "Cry Me a River" into something comparable to Enrico Caruso having his first bash at Pagliacci. When Streisand cries you a river, you got a river, Sam ... and she will be around 50 years from now if good songs are still written to be sung by good singers.

—syndicated columnist Robert Ruark,
on her 1963 performances at the Blue Angel.[43][44]

Early theatre roles and Broadway debut

Streisand accepted her first role on the New York stage in Another Evening with Harry Stoones, a satirical comedy play in which she acted and sang two solos. The show received terrible reviews and closed the next day. With the help of her new personal manager, Martin Erlichman, she had successful shows in Detroit and St. Louis. Erlichman then booked her at an even more upscale nightclub in Manhattan, the Blue Angel, where she became a bigger hit during the period from 1961 to 1962. Streisand once told Jimmy Fallon, with whom she sang a duet,[45] on the Tonight Show, that Erlichman was a "fantastic manager" and still managed her career after 50 years.[46]

While appearing at the Blue Angel, theater director and playwright Arthur Laurents asked her to audition for a new musical comedy he was directing, I Can Get It for You Wholesale. She got the part of secretary to the lead actor businessman, played by then unknown Elliott Gould.[25]: 9  They fell in love during rehearsals and eventually moved into a small apartment together. The show opened on March 22, 1962, at the Shubert Theater, and received rave reviews. Her performance "stopped the show cold", wrote Nickens.[25]: 9 [25]: 10  Groucho Marx, while hosting the Tonight Show, told her that 20 was an "extremely young age to be a success on Broadway".[47] Streisand received a Tony Award nomination and New York Drama Critic's prize for Best Supporting Actress.[48] The show was recorded and made into an album.[25]: 10 

Early television appearances

 
Streisand in 1966

Streisand's first television appearance was on The Tonight Show, then credited to its usual host Jack Paar. She was seen during an April 1961 episode on which Orson Bean substituted for Paar. She sang Harold Arlen's "A Sleepin' Bee".[49] During her appearance, Phyllis Diller, also a guest on the show, called her "one of the great singing talents in the world."[50]

Later in 1961, before she was cast in Another Evening With Harry Stoones, she became a semi-regular on PM East/PM West, a talk/variety series hosted by Mike Wallace and Joyce Davidson.[51] Some of Streisand’s PM East segments survive as audio recordings, and still photos survive, but moving images do not.

In early 1962, she went into the Columbia Records studio for the cast recording of I Can Get It for You Wholesale. Also that spring she participated in a 25th anniversary studio recording of Pins and Needles, the classic popular front musical originated in 1937 by the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union. Reviews of both albums highlighted Streisand's performances.[52]

In May 1962, Streisand appeared on The Garry Moore Show where she sang "Happy Days Are Here Again" for the first time. Her sad, slow version of the 1930s upbeat Democratic Party theme song became her signature song during this early phase of her career.[25]: 10 

Johnny Carson had her on the Tonight Show half a dozen times in 1962 and 1963, and she became a favorite of his television audience and himself personally. He described her as an "exciting new singer."[53] During one show, she joked with Groucho Marx who liked her style of humor.[25]: 10 

She did three or four songs, and she was beyond brilliant – so amazing.

—Elliott Gould, about their first play together in 1961[54]

In December 1962, she made the first of a number of appearances on The Ed Sullivan Show. She was later a cohost on the Mike Douglas Show, and also made an impact on a number of Bob Hope specials. Performing with her on The Ed Sullivan Show was Liberace who became an instant fan of the young singer. Liberace invited her to Las Vegas to perform as his opening act at the Riviera Hotel. Liberace is credited with introducing Barbra to audiences on the West Coast.[55] The following September during her ongoing shows at Harrah's Hotel in Lake Tahoe, she and Elliott Gould took time off to get married in Carson City, Nevada. With her career and popularity rising so quickly, she saw her marriage to Gould as a "stabilizing influence."[25]: 11 

First albums

When she was 21, Streisand signed a contract with Columbia Records that gave her full creative control, in exchange for less money.

Lieberson relented and agreed to sign her. Nearly three decades later, Streisand said:

The most important thing about that first contract – actually, the thing we held out for – was a unique clause giving me the right to choose my own material. It was the only thing I really cared about. I still received lots of pressure from the label to include some pop hits on my first album, but I held out for the songs that really meant something to me.[56][1]

She took advantage of this several times during her career.[1]

Columbia wanted to call her first album, in early 1963, Sweet And Saucy Streisand; Streisand used her control to insist that it was called The Barbra Streisand Album, saying "if you saw me on TV, you could just go [to the record shop] and ask for the Barbra Streisand album. It's common sense".[1] It reached the top 10 on the Billboard chart and won three Grammy Awards.[25]: 11  The album made her the best-selling female vocalist in the country.[25]: 11  That summer she also released The Second Barbra Streisand Album, which established her as the "most exciting new personality since Elvis Presley."[25]: 11  She ended that breakthrough year of 1963 by performing one-night concerts in Indianapolis, San Jose, Chicago, Sacramento, and Los Angeles.[25]: 11 

Return to the stage

Streisand returned to Broadway in 1964 with an acclaimed performance as entertainer Fanny Brice in Funny Girl at the Winter Garden Theatre. The show introduced two of her signature songs, "People" and "Don't Rain on My Parade." Because of the musical's overnight success, she appeared on the cover of Time. In 1964, Streisand was nominated for a Tony Award for Best Leading Actress in a Musical but lost to Carol Channing in Hello, Dolly! Streisand received an honorary "Star of the Decade" Tony Award in 1970.[57]

In 1966, she repeated her success with Funny Girl in London's West End at the Prince of Wales Theatre. From 1965 to 1968 she appeared in her first four solo television specials, including the Emmy award-winning My Name is Barbra.

Career

Singing

Streisand has recorded 50 studio albums, almost all with Columbia Records. Her early works in the 1960s (her debut The Barbra Streisand Album, The Second Barbra Streisand Album, The Third Album, My Name Is Barbra, etc.) are considered classic renditions of theatre and cabaret standards, including her pensive version of the normally uptempo "Happy Days Are Here Again". She performed this in a duet with Judy Garland on The Judy Garland Show. Garland referred to her on the air as one of the last great belters. They also sang "There's No Business Like Show Business" with Ethel Merman joining them.[58]

 
On The Ed Sullivan Show in 1969

Beginning with My Name Is Barbra, her early albums were often medley-filled keepsakes of her television specials. Starting in 1969, she began attempting more contemporary material, but like many talented singers of the day, she found herself out of her element with rock. Her vocal talents prevailed, and she gained newfound success with the pop and ballad-oriented Richard Perry-produced album Stoney End in 1971. The title track, written by Laura Nyro, was a major hit for Streisand.

During the 1970s, she was also highly prominent on the pop charts, with Top 10 recordings such as "The Way We Were" (US No. 1), "Evergreen (Love Theme from A Star Is Born)" (US No. 1), "No More Tears (Enough Is Enough)" (1979, with Donna Summer), which as of 2010 is reportedly still the most commercially successful duet, (US No. 1), "You Don't Bring Me Flowers" (with Neil Diamond) (US No. 1) and "The Main Event" (US No. 3), some of which came from soundtrack recordings of her films. As the 1970s ended, Streisand was named the most successful female singer in the U.S. – only Elvis Presley and The Beatles had sold more albums.[59] In 1980, she released her best-selling effort to date, the Barry Gibb-produced Guilty. The album contained the hits "Woman in Love" (which spent several weeks on top of the pop charts in the fall of 1980), "Guilty", and "What Kind of Fool".

After years of largely ignoring Broadway and traditional pop music in favor of more contemporary material, Streisand returned to her musical-theater roots. Columbia records objected that the songs she wanted to sing were not pop songs, but Streisand asserted the full creative control her contract gave her—'I've always had the right to sing what I want'[1]— with 1985's The Broadway Album, which was unexpectedly successful, holding the coveted No. 1 Billboard position for three straight weeks, and being certified quadruple platinum. The album featured tunes by Rodgers and Hammerstein, George Gershwin, Jerome Kern, and Stephen Sondheim, who was persuaded to rework some of his songs especially for this recording. The Broadway Album was met with acclaim, including a Grammy nomination for album of the year and handed Streisand her eighth Grammy as Best Female Vocalist. After releasing the live album One Voice in 1986, Streisand was set to release another album of Broadway songs in 1988. She recorded several cuts for the album under the direction of Rupert Holmes, including "On My Own" (from Les Misérables), a medley of "How Are Things in Glocca Morra?" and "Heather on the Hill" (from Finian's Rainbow and Brigadoon, respectively), "All I Ask of You" (from The Phantom of the Opera), "Warm All Over" (from The Most Happy Fella) and an unusual solo version of "Make Our Garden Grow" (from Candide). Streisand was not happy with the direction of the project and it was scrapped. Only "Warm All Over" and a reworked, lite FM-friendly version of "All I Ask of You" were ever released, the latter appearing on Streisand's 1988 effort, Till I Loved You. At the beginning of the 1990s, Streisand started focusing on her film directorial efforts and became almost inactive in the recording studio. In 1991, a four-disc box set, Just for the Record, was released. A compilation spanning Streisand's entire career to date, it featured over 70 tracks of live performances, greatest hits, rarities and previously unreleased material.

 
Streisand taping her TV Special Barbra Streisand ... and other Musical Instruments in 1973

The following year, Streisand's concert fundraising events helped propel President Bill Clinton into the spotlight and into office.[60] Streisand later introduced Clinton at his inauguration in 1993. Streisand's music career, however, was largely on hold. A 1992 appearance at an APLA benefit as well as the aforementioned inaugural performance hinted that Streisand was becoming more receptive to the idea of live performances. A tour was suggested, though Streisand would not immediately commit to it, citing her well-known stage fright as well as security concerns. During this time, Streisand finally returned to the recording studio and released Back to Broadway in June 1993. The album was not as universally lauded as its predecessor, but it did debut at No. 1 on the pop charts (a rare feat for an artist of Streisand's age, especially given that it relegated Janet Jackson's Janet to the No. 2 spot). One of the album's highlights was a medley of "I Have A Love" / "One Hand, One Heart", a duet with Johnny Mathis, who Streisand said is one of her favorite singers.[61][62]

In 1993, The New York Times music critic Stephen Holden wrote that Streisand "enjoys a cultural status that only one other American entertainer, Frank Sinatra, has achieved in the last half century".[63] In September 1993, Streisand announced her first public concert appearances in 27 years (discounting her Las Vegas nightclub performances between 1969 and 1972). What began as a two-night New Year's event at the MGM Grand Las Vegas led to a multi-city tour in the summer of 1994. Tickets for the tour sold out in under an hour. Streisand also appeared on the covers of major magazines 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 US$50 to US$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 and earned five Emmy Awards and the Peabody Award, while the taped broadcast on HBO was the highest-rated concert special in HBO's 30-year history. Following the tour's conclusion, Streisand once again kept a low profile musically, instead focusing her efforts on acting and directing duties as well as a burgeoning romance with actor James Brolin.

In 1996, Streisand released "I Finally Found Someone" as a duet with Canadian singer and songwriter Bryan Adams. The song was nominated for an Oscar as it was part of the soundtrack of Streisand's self-directed movie The Mirror Has Two Faces. It reached #8 on the Billboard Hot 100, and was her first significant hit in almost a decade and her first top 10 hit on the Hot 100 (and first gold single) since 1981.

In 1997, she finally returned to the recording studio, releasing Higher Ground, a collection of songs of a loosely inspirational nature which also featured a duet with Céline Dion. The album received generally favorable reviews and once again debuted at No. 1 on the pop charts. Following her marriage to Brolin in 1998, Streisand recorded A Love Like Ours the following year. Reviews were mixed, with many critics complaining about the somewhat syrupy sentiments and overly lush arrangements; however, it did produce a modest hit for Streisand in the country-tinged "If You Ever Leave Me", a duet with Vince Gill.

On New Year's Eve 1999, Streisand returned to the concert stage, selling out in the first few hours, eight months before her return.[64] At the end of the millennium, she was the number one female singer in the U.S., with at least two No. 1 albums in each decade since she began performing. A two-disc live album Timeless: Live in Concert was released in 2000. Streisand performed versions of the Timeless concert in Sydney and Melbourne, Australia, in early 2000. In advance of four concerts (two each in Los Angeles and New York) in September 2000, Streisand announced that she was retiring from playing public concerts. Her performance of the song "People" was broadcast on the Internet via America Online.

Streisand's subsequent albums included Christmas Memories (2001), a somewhat somber collection of holiday songs, and The Movie Album (2003), featuring famous film themes and backed by a large symphony orchestra. Guilty Pleasures (called Guilty Too in the UK), a collaboration with Barry Gibb and a sequel to their Guilty, was released worldwide in 2005.

 
Streisand performing in July 2007 at The O2 Arena in London

In February 2006, Streisand recorded the song "Smile" alongside Tony Bennett at Streisand's Malibu home. The song is included on Bennett's 80th birthday album, Duets. In September 2006, the pair filmed a live performance of the song for Tony Bennett: An American Classic directed by Rob Marshall. The special aired on NBC November 21, 2006, and was released on DVD the same day. Streisand's duet with Bennett opened the special.

That same year Streisand announced her intent to tour again, in an effort to raise money and awareness for multiple issues. After four days of rehearsal at the Sovereign Bank Arena in Trenton, New Jersey, the 2006 Streisand concert tour began on October 4 at the Wachovia Center in Philadelphia, continued with a featured stop in Sunrise, Florida, and concluded at Staples Center in Los Angeles on November 20, 2006. Special guests Il Divo were interwoven throughout the show. Streisand's 20-concert tour set box-office records. At the age of 64, she grossed $92,457,062 and set house gross records in 14 of the 16 arenas played on the tour. She set the third-place record for her show of October 9, 2006 at Madison Square Garden, the first- and second-place records, of which are held by her two shows in September 2000. She set the second-place record at MGM Grand Garden Arena, with her December 31, 1999, show being the house record and highest-grossing concert of all time. This led many people to openly criticize Streisand for price gouging as many tickets sold for upwards of $1,000.[65]

A collection of performances culled from different stops on this tour, Live in Concert 2006, debuted at No. 7 on the Billboard 200, making it Streisand's 29th Top 10 album.[66] In the summer of 2007, Streisand gave concerts for the first time in continental Europe. The first concert took place in Zürich (June 18), then Vienna (June 22), Paris (June 26), Berlin (June 30), Stockholm (July 4, canceled), Manchester (July 10) and Celbridge, near Dublin (July 14), followed by three concerts in London (July 18, 22 and 25), the only European city where Streisand had performed before 2007. Tickets for the London dates cost between £100.00 and £1,500.00, and for Ireland, between €118 and €500. The Ireland date was marred by issues with serious parking and seating problems leading to the event's being dubbed a fiasco by Hot Press.[67] The tour included a 58-piece orchestra.

In February 2008, Forbes listed Streisand as the No.-2-earning female musician between June 2006 and June 2007 with earnings of about $60 million.[68] On November 17, 2008, Streisand returned to the studio to begin recording what would be her 63rd album[69] and it was announced that Diana Krall was producing the album.[70] Streisand is one of the recipients of the 2008 Kennedy Center Honors.[71] On December 7, 2008, she visited the White House as part of the ceremonies.[69]

On April 25, 2009, CBS aired Streisand's latest television special, Streisand: Live in Concert, highlighting the featured stop from her 2006 North American tour in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. On September 26, 2009, Streisand performed a one-night-only show at the Village Vanguard in New York City's Greenwich Village.[72] This performance was later released on DVD as One Night Only: Barbra Streisand and Quartet at The Village Vanguard. On September 29, 2009, Streisand and Columbia Records released the studio album Love is the Answer, produced by Diana Krall.[73] On October 2, 2009, Streisand made her British television performance debut with an interview on Friday Night with Jonathan Ross to promote the album. This album debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 and registered her biggest weekly sales since 1997, making Streisand the only artist in history to achieve No. 1 albums in five different decades.

On February 1, 2010, Streisand joined over 80 other artists in recording a new version of the 1985 charity single "We Are the World". Quincy Jones and Lionel Richie planned to release the new version to mark the 25th anniversary of its original recording. These plans changed, however, in view of the devastating earthquake that hit Haiti on January 12, 2010, and on February 12, the song, now called "We Are the World 25 for Haiti", made its debut as a charity single to support relief aid for the island nation.

Streisand was honored as MusiCares Person of the Year on February 11, 2011, two days prior to the 53rd Annual Grammy Awards.[74] That same year Streisand sang "Somewhere" from the Broadway musical West Side Story, with child prodigy Jackie Evancho, on Evancho's album Dream with Me.[75]

On October 11, 2012, Streisand gave a three-hour concert performance before a crowd of 18,000 as part of the ongoing inaugural events of Barclays Center (and part of her current Barbra Live tour) in Brooklyn (her first-ever public performance in her home borough). Streisand was joined onstage by trumpeter Chris Botti, Italian operatic trio Il Volo, and her son Jason Gould. The concert included musical tributes by Streisand to Donna Summer and Marvin Hamlisch, both of whom had died earlier in 2012. Confirmed attendees included Barbara Walters, Jimmy Fallon, Sting, Katie Couric, Woody Allen, Michael Douglas and New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg, as well as designers Calvin Klein, Donna Karan, Ralph Lauren and Michael Kors.[76][77] In June 2013 she gave two concerts in Bloomfield Stadium, Tel Aviv.

Streisand is one of many singers who use teleprompters during their live performances. Streisand has defended her choice in using teleprompters to display lyrics and, sometimes, banter.[78]

In September 2014,[79] she released Partners, a new album of duets that features collaborations with Elvis Presley, Andrea Bocelli, Stevie Wonder, Lionel Richie, Billy Joel, Babyface, Michael Bublé, Josh Groban, John Mayer, John Legend, Blake Shelton and Jason Gould. This album topped the Billboard 200 with sales of 196,000 copies in the first week, making Streisand the only recording artist to have a number-one album in each of the last six decades.[80] It was also certified gold in November 2014 and platinum in January 2015, thus becoming Streisand's 52nd gold and 31st Platinum album, more than any other female artist in history.[81]

In May 2016, Streisand announced the upcoming album Encore: Movie Partners Sing Broadway to be released in August following a nine-city concert tour, Barbra: The Music, The Mem'ries, The Magic, including performances in Los Angeles, Las Vegas, Philadelphia, and a return to her hometown of Brooklyn.[82] In June 2018, Streisand confirmed she was working on the new studio album Walls,[83] released November 2, 2018, just prior to the U.S. midterm election. The album's lead single "Don't Lie to Me" was written as a criticism of America's political climate amid the presidency of Donald Trump,[84][85] while the title track alludes to Trump's frequent calls for a wall at the Mexico border.[86]

Acting

 
Streisand in Hello, Dolly! (1969)

Streisand's first film was a reprise of her Broadway hit, Funny Girl (1968), an artistic and commercial success directed by Hollywood veteran William Wyler. She won the 1968 Academy Award for Best Actress for the role,[87] sharing it with Katharine Hepburn (The Lion in Winter), the only time there has been a tie in this Oscar category.[88] Her next two movies were also based on musicals—Jerry Herman's Hello, Dolly!, directed by Gene Kelly (1969); and Alan Jay Lerner's and Burton Lane's On a Clear Day You Can See Forever, directed by Vincente Minnelli (1970)—while her fourth film was based on the Broadway play The Owl and the Pussycat (1970).[citation needed]

During the 1970s, Streisand starred in several screwball comedies, including What's Up, Doc? (1972) and The Main Event (1979), both co-starring Ryan O'Neal, and For Pete's Sake (1974) with Michael Sarrazin. One of her most famous roles during this period was in the drama The Way We Were (1973) with Robert Redford, for which she received an Academy Award nomination as Best Actress. She earned her second Academy Award for Best Original Song (with lyricist Paul Williams) for the song "Evergreen", from A Star Is Born in 1976,[89] in which she also starred.

Along with Paul Newman, Sidney Poitier and later Steve McQueen, Streisand formed First Artists Production Company in 1969 so actors could secure properties and develop movie projects for themselves. Streisand's initial outing with First Artists was Up the Sandbox (1972).[90]

From 1969 to 1980, Streisand appeared in Top Ten Money Making Stars Poll, the annual motion picture exhibitors poll of Top 10 Box Office attractions a total of 10 times,[91] often as the only woman on the list. After the commercially disappointing All Night Long in 1981, Streisand's film output decreased considerably. She has acted in only eight films since.

I'm impressed with her choosing Yentl; it was extraordinary. But for some reason, Hollywood turned against her ... there was a lack of sympathy toward her ... Christ, she could have played Cleopatra better than Liz Taylor, with her enormous power and the subtlety of her singing ... She is one of the great actresses and she hasn't been well used.

—director John Huston, Playboy interview, 1985[92]

Streisand produced a number of her own films, setting up Barwood Films in 1972. The first film she made, Yentl (1983), was turned down by every Hollywood studio at least once when she asked to not only direct the picture, but also to star in the film, until Orion Pictures took on the project and gave the film a budget of $14 million.[93] For Yentl (1983), she was producer, director, and star, an experience she repeated for The Prince of Tides (1991) and The Mirror Has Two Faces (1996). There was controversy when Yentl received five Academy Award nominations, but none for the major categories of Best Picture, actress, or Director.[94] The Prince of Tides received even more Oscar nominations, including Best Picture and Best Screenplay, although not for director. Upon completion of the film, its screenwriter, Pat Conroy, who also authored the novel, called Streisand "a goddess who walks upon the earth."[25]: xii 

Streisand also co-scripted Yentl (with Jack Rosenthal), something for which she is not always given credit.[95] According to The New York Times editorial page editor Andrew Rosenthal in an interview with Allan Wolper, "The one thing that makes Barbra Streisand crazy is when nobody gives her the credit for having written Yentl."[96]

In 2004, Streisand made a return to film acting after an eight-year hiatus, in the comedy Meet the Fockers (a sequel to Meet the Parents), playing opposite Dustin Hoffman, Ben Stiller, Blythe Danner and Robert De Niro.

 
Streisand in On a Clear Day You Can See Forever (1970)

In 2005, Streisand's Barwood Films, Gary Smith, and Sonny Murray purchased the rights to Simon Mawer's book Mendel's Dwarf.[97] In December 2008, she stated that she was considering directing an adaptation of Larry Kramer's play The Normal Heart, a project she has worked on since the mid-1990s.[98]

In December 2010, Streisand appeared in Little Fockers, the third film from the Meet the Parents trilogy. She reprised the role of Roz Focker alongside Dustin Hoffman.

On January 28, 2011, The Hollywood Reporter announced that Paramount Pictures had given the green light to begin shooting the road-trip comedy My Mother's Curse, with Seth Rogen playing Streisand's character's son. Anne Fletcher directed the project with a script by Dan Fogelman, produced by Lorne Michaels, John Goldwyn, and Evan Goldberg. Executive producers included Streisand, Rogen, Fogelman, and David Ellison, whose Skydance Productions co-financed the road movie.[99] Shooting began in spring 2011 and wrapped in July; the film's title was eventually altered to The Guilt Trip, and the movie was released in December 2012.

Streisand was set to star in a film adaptation of the musical Gypsy – featuring music by Jules Styne, a book by Arthur Laurents and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim – with Richard LaGravenese reportedly attached to the project as screenwriter.[100] In April 2016, it was reported that Streisand was in advanced negotiations to star in and produce the film, to be directed by Barry Levinson and distributed by STX Entertainment.[101] Two months later, the film's script had been completed and production was scheduled to begin in early 2017.[102] However, in 2019 Streisand was reported to have exited the project.[103]

In 2015 plans emerged for Streisand to direct a feature biopic about the 18th-century Russian empress Catherine the Great based on the top 2014 Black List script produced by Gil Netter[104] with Keira Knightley starring.[105] As of 2022 nothing has come out of these plans.

Artistry

Streisand possesses a mezzo-soprano vocal range,[106][107] which Howard Cohen of the Miami Herald describes as "peerless".[107] Whitney Balliett wrote, "Streisand wows her listeners with her shrewd dynamics (in-your-ear soft here, elbowing-loud there), her bravura climbs, her rolling vibrato, and the singular Streisand-from-Brooklyn nasal quality of her voice – a voice as immediately recognizable in its way as Louis Armstrong's."[108] Music writer Allegra Rossi adds that Streisand creates complete compositions in her head:

Even though she can't read or write music, Barbra hears melodies as completed compositions in her head. She hears a melody and takes it in, learning it quickly. Barbra developed her ability to sustain long notes because she wanted to. She can mold a tune that others cannot; she's able to sing between song and speech, keeping in tune, carrying rhythm and meaning.[35][a]

While she is predominantly a pop singer, Streisand's voice has been described as "semi-operatic" due to its strength and quality of tone.[110] According to Adam Feldman of Time Out, Streisand's "signature vocal style" is "a suspension bridge between old-school belting and microphone pop."[111] She is known for her ability to hold relatively high notes, both loud and soft, with great intensity, as well as for her ability to make slight but unobtrusive embellishments on a melodic line. The former quality led classical pianist Glenn Gould to call himself "a Streisand freak".[112]

In recent years, critics and audiences have noted that her voice has "lowered and acquired an occasionally husky edge". However, New York Times music critic Stephen Holden noted that her distinctive tone and musical instincts remain, and that she still "has the gift of conveying a primal human longing in a beautiful sound".[110] Paul Taylor of The Independent wrote that Streisand "has sounded a little scratchy and frayed, though the stout resolve and superb technique with which Streisand manages to hoist it over these difficulties has come to seem morally as well aesthetically impressive."[113] Reviewing Streisand's most recent studio effort Partners, Gil Naveh of Haaretz described Streisand's voice as "velvety, clear and powerful ... and the passing years have given it a fascinating depth and roughness."[114]

Personal life

Relationships and family

 
Streisand with husband Elliott Gould and son Jason (1967)
 
With James Brolin (2013)

Streisand has been married twice. Her first husband was actor Elliott Gould, whom she married on September 13, 1963. They announced their separation on February 12, 1969, and divorced on July 6, 1971. They had one child, Jason Gould, who appeared as her on-screen son in The Prince of Tides.

In 1969 and 1970, Streisand dated Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau.[115][116][117]

She started a relationship with hairdresser/producer Jon Peters in 1973.[118] He went on to be her manager and producer. They broke up in 1982 during the making of Yentl, but remain friends. She is the godmother of his daughters, Caleigh Peters and Skye Peters.[119]

From November 1983 to October 1987, Streisand lived with Baskin-Robbins ice cream heir Richard Baskin,[120] who wrote the lyrics to "Here We Are At Last" on her 1984 album Emotion.

She dated actor Don Johnson from December 1987 through at least September 1988.[121][122] The pair recorded a duet of "Till I Loved You".

In 1983 and 1989, respectively, Streisand briefly dated actors Richard Gere[123] and Clint Eastwood.[124]

From 1989 to 1991, she was involved with composer James Newton Howard.[125]

Streisand dated tennis champion Andre Agassi from 1992 to 1993. Writing about the relationship in his 2009 autobiography, Agassi said: "We agree that we're good for each other, and so what if she's twenty-eight years older? We're simpatico, and the public outcry only adds spice to our connection. It makes our friendship feel forbidden, taboo – another piece of my overall rebellion. Dating Barbra Streisand is like wearing Hot Lava."[126]

During the early-to-mid-1990s, Streisand was in romantic relationships with several high-profile men, including newscaster Peter Jennings[127] as well as actors Liam Neeson,[128] Jon Voight[129] and Peter Weller.[130]

Her second husband is actor James Brolin, whom she married on July 1, 1998.[131] While they have no children together, Brolin has two sons from his first marriage, including actor Josh Brolin, and one daughter from his second marriage.[132][133]

Streisand is the owner of multiple dogs, and she loved her dog Samantha so much, that she had her cloned.[134]

In March 2019, Streisand apologized for her controversial statements about Michael Jackson's accusers.[135]

Name

Streisand changed her name from "Barbara" to "Barbra" because, she said, "I hated the name, but I refused to change it."[136] Streisand further explained, "Well, I was 18 and I wanted to be unique, but I didn't want to change my name because that was too false. You know, people were saying you could be Joanie Sands, or something like that. (My middle name is Joan.) And I said, 'No, let's see, if I take out the 'a,' it's still 'Barbara,' but it's unique."[137] A 1967 biography with a concert program said, "the spelling of her first name is an instance of partial rebellion: she was advised to change her last name and retaliated by dropping an "a" from the first instead."[138]

Politics

In the early years of her career, Streisand's interest in politics was limited, with the exception of her participation in activities of the anti-nuclear group Women Strike for Peace in 1961 and 1962.[139] In 1968, her political activism increased, and she helped promote the presidential campaign of Eugene McCarthy who held an anti–Vietnam War stance.[140] In July 1968, with Harry Belafonte and others, she performed at the Hollywood Bowl in a fundraising concert sponsored by the Southern Christian Leadership Conference to benefit the poor.[141]

Streisand has been an active supporter of the Democratic Party and many of its causes. She was among the celebrities on President Richard Nixon's 1971 list of political enemies.[142] In 1972, she assisted the presidential campaign of anti-war candidate George McGovern by headlining the benefit concert Four for McGovern, organized by actor Warren Beatty and record producer Lou Adler; her concert recording was released as Live Concert at the Forum.[143] The next year, in association with liberal activist Stanley Sheinbaum and the American Civil Liberties Union, Streisand performed a benefit at the mansion of film mogul Jennings Lang to pay for the legal defense of Daniel Ellsberg of Pentagon Papers fame. Accompanied by a small combo including Marvin Hamlisch on piano, Streisand took paid song requests from the star-studded audience and by telephone to bring the night's total to $50,000.[144]

In 1984, Streisand joined Jane Fonda and ten other television and film industry notables to establish the activist group Hollywood Women's Political Committee (HWPC), the membership eventually growing to 300. The HWPC fought for liberal causes for more than a decade, contributing to the Democratic Party taking majority control in the 1986 U.S. Senate elections,[145] and in 1992 funding Bill Clinton's presidential election[146] as well as helping to usher in the Year of the Woman by electing more women senators.[147] In 1995 Streisand spoke at Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government about the role of the artist as citizen, in support of arts programs and funding.[148][149]

Streisand is a supporter of LGBT rights and backed the "No on 8" campaign in an unsuccessful attempt to defeat California Proposition 8 of 2008.[150]

In 2012, Streisand stated, "The new laws requiring U.S. citizens to produce photo IDs at the poll are designed to deprive elderly and minority citizens of the precious right to cast their vote. These regressive laws are themselves the most dangerous voter fraud threatening American democracy."[151] Streisand continued her voter rights advocacy in 2020, tweeting a link to VoteRiders, a nonprofit that assists citizens with obtaining voter ID.[152]

In June 2013, she helped celebrate the 90th birthday of Shimon Peres held at Jerusalem's international convention center.[153] She also performed at two other concerts in Tel Aviv that same week, part of her first concert tour of Israel.[154]

In January 2017, she participated in 2017 Women's March in Los Angeles. Introduced by Rufus Wainwright, Streisand appeared on stage and made a speech.[155]

In an October 2018 interview with Emma Brockes of The Guardian, Streisand discussed the theme of her new album Walls: the danger she believed President Donald Trump posed towards the United States. She said, "This is a dangerous time in this nation, this republic: a man who is corrupt and indecent and is assaulting our institutions. It's really, really frightening. And I just pray that people who are compassionate and respect the truth will come out and vote. I'm saying more than just vote. Vote for Democrats!"[156]

Philanthropy

 
Streisand with Arnon Milchan, during the opening of the Streisand building in the Hebrew University, 1984

In 1984, Streisand donated the Emanuel Streisand Building for Jewish Studies to the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, in the Mount Scopus campus, in memory of her father, an educator and scholar who died when she was young.[157][158][159]

Streisand has personally raised $25 million[160] for organizations through her live performances. The Streisand Foundation,[161] established in 1986, has contributed over $16 million through nearly 1,000 grants to "national organizations working on preservation of the environment, voter education, the protection of civil liberties and civil rights, women's issues[162] and nuclear disarmament".[163]

In 2006, Streisand donated $1 million to the William J. Clinton Foundation in support of former President Bill Clinton's climate change initiative.[164]

In 2009, Streisand gifted $5 million to endow the Barbra Streisand Women's Cardiovascular Research and Education Program at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center's Women's Heart Center.[165] In September that year, Parade magazine included Streisand on its Giving Back Fund's second annual Giving Back 30 survey, "a ranking of the celebrities who have made the largest donations to charity in 2007 according to public records",[166] as the third most generous celebrity. The Giving Back Fund claimed Streisand donated $11 million, which The Streisand Foundation distributed. In 2012 she raised $22 million to support her women's cardiovascular center, bringing her own personal contribution to $10 million. The program was officially named the Barbra Streisand Women's Heart Center.[167]

At Julien's Auctions in October 2009, Streisand, a longtime collector of art and furniture, sold 526 items, with all the proceeds going to her foundation. Items included a costume from Funny Lady and a vintage dental cabinet purchased by the performer at 18 years old. The sale's most valuable lot was a painting by Kees van Dongen.[168]

In December 2011, she appeared at a fundraising gala for Israel Defense Forces charities.[169]

In June 2020, she gifted George Floyd's daughter, Gianna Floyd, Disney shares.[170]

Legacy

Streisand is regarded as the "Queen of the Divas" by various media outlets.[171] The New York Times called her among the three of Americas Most Beloved Divas (alongside Dolly Parton and Patti Labelle).[172] Vulture honored her enduring legacy saying her works influence "extends to Céline Dion, the 1980s output of Lionel Richie and Luther Vandross, and the more maudlin ballads of Mariah Carey, Adele, and Whitney Houston."[173] Forbes hailed Streisand as the reigning "Queen of the Charts" for her unmistakable longevity on the Billboard charts.[174] Los Angeles Times also hailed her as the 'most influential female vocalist' and 'the most revolutionary of performers' for being responsible for changing the rules for female performers to come.[175] CNN listed her as one of the most romantic singers of the 20th century.[176]

Honors

Streisand was presented Distinguished Merit Award by Mademoiselle in 1964, and selected as Miss Ziegfeld in 1965. In 1968, she received the Israel Freedom Medal, the highest civilian award of Israel, and she was awarded Pied Piper Award by ASCAP and Prix De L'Academie Charles Cros in 1969, Crystal Apple by her hometown City of New York, Woman of Achievement in the Arts by Anti-Defamation League in 1978. In 1984, Streisand was awarded the Women in Film Crystal Award for outstanding women who, through their endurance and the excellence of their work, have helped to expand the role of women within the entertainment industry.[177] She received the Woman of Courage Award by the National Organization for Women (NOW), the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres[178] and Scopus Award by American Friends of The Hebrew University.

She received Breakthrough Awards for "making films that portray women with serious complexity" at the Women, Men and Media symposium in 1991.[179] In 1992, she was given the Commitment to Life Award by AIDS Project Los Angeles(APLA), and the Bill of Rights Award by the American Civil Liberties Union of Southern California, the Dorothy Arzner Special Recognition by Women in Film, and the Golden Plate by the Academy of Achievement. She was honored with the Harry Chapin Humanitarian Award from the ASCAP in 1994 and the Peabody Award in 1995, the same year she was accorded an Honorary Doctorate in Arts and Humanities by Brandeis University.[178] She was also awarded Filmmaker of the Year Award for "lifetime achievement in filmmaking" by ShowEast and Peabody Award in 1996, Christopher Award in 1998.

In 2000, President Bill Clinton presented Streisand with the National Medal of Arts, the highest honor specifically given for achievement in the arts,[180] and Library of Congress Living Legend, she also received the highest honor for a career in film AFI Life Achievement Award from American Film Institute and Liberty and Justice Award from Rainbow/PUSH Coalition, Gracie Allen Award, First Annual Jewish Image Awards in 2001, and Humanitarian Award "for her years of leadership, vision, and activism in the fight for civil liberties, including religion, race, gender equality and freedom of speech, as well as all aspects of gay rights" from Human Rights Campaign in 2004. In 2007, French President Nicolas Sarkozy presented Streisand with Legion of Honour, the highest decoration in France, and President George W. Bush presented her Kennedy Center Honors, the highest recognition of cultural achievement.

In 2011, she was given Board of Governors Humanitarian Award for her efforts on behalf of women's heart health and her many other philanthropic activities." by Cedars-Sinai Heart Institute. She received the L'Oréal Paris Legend Award in 18th Elle Magazine Women in Hollywood. In 2012, she received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Women Film Critics Circle. She was accorded an Honorary Doctorate of Philosophy by the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 2013. In that year, she was also recipient of the Charlie Chaplin Award for Lifetime Achievement by the Film Society of Lincoln Center as the only female artist to direct, write, produce and star in the same major studio film, Yentl,[181] along with a Lifetime Achievement Glamour Awards.[182]

In 2014, Streisand was on one of eight different New York Magazine covers celebrating the magazine's "100 Years, 100 Songs, 100 Nights: A Century of Pop Music in New York". She also received the American Society of Cinematographers (ASC) Board of Governors Award,[citation needed] the Sherry Lansing Leadership Award at The Hollywood Reporter's annual Women in Entertainment Breakfast,[183] and came first in the 1010 Wins Iconic Celebrity Poll by CBS in 2015.[178] In November 2015, President Barack Obama announced that Streisand would receive the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the highest civilian award of the United States.[184] Streisand was inducted into and Hollywood Walk of Fame in 1976, Goldmine Hall of Fame in 2002,[185] Long Island Music Hall of Fame in 2007,[186] the Hit Parade Hall of Fame in 2009,[187] National Museum of American Jewish History and California Hall of Fame in 2010.[178]

In 1970, she received a Special Tony Award named "Star of the Decade", and was selected "Star of the Decade" by the National Association of Theatre Owners (NATO) in 1980, "Star of Decade" by NATO/ShowWest and President's Award by NARM in 1988. That year she was also named as All-Time Favorite Musical Performer by People's Choice Awards. In 1986, Life named her as one of "Five Hollywood's Most Powerful Women".[188] In 1998, Harris Poll reported that she is the "Most Popular Singer Among Adult Americans of All Ages." She was also featured on VH1's 100 Greatest Women of Rock N Roll,[189] Top 100 Singers of all time by Mojo magazine,[190] named the century's best female singer in a Reuters/Zogby poll, and "Top Female Artist of the Century" by Recording Industry Association of America in 1999.[191][192] In 2006, Streisand was one of honorees at Oprah Winfrey's white-tie Legends Ball.[193]

In 2015, The Daily Telegraph ranked Streisand as one of the 10 top female singer-songwriters of all time.[194] A&E's Biography magazine ranked Streisand as one of their favorite leading actress of all time,[195] she was also featured on the Voices of the Century list by BBC,[196] the "100 Greatest Movie Stars of Time" list compiled by People,[197] VH1's list of the "200 Greatest Pop Culture Icons of All Time",[198] the "100 Greatest Entertainers of All Time", "ranked at #13" and the "Greatest Movie Star of all time list" by Entertainment Weekly,[189] "The 50 Greatest Actresses of All Tim" by AMC,[199] and Billboard Hot 100 All-Time Top Artists.[200] Billboard also ranked Streisand as the top female Jewish musician of all time.[201] As a gay icon, Streisand was named by The Advocate as one of the "25 Coolest Women" and the "9 Coolest Women Appealing to Both Lesbians and Gay Men",[202] and was also placed among the "12 Greatest Female Gay Icons of All Time" by Out magazine.[203] She was recognized as one of the top gay icons of the past three decades by Gay Times.[204]

During the first decade of the 21st century, the American Film Institute celebrated 100 years of the greatest films in American cinema. Four of Streisand's songs were represented on AFI's 100 Years ... 100 Songs, which highlighted "America's Greatest Music in the Movies": "The Way We Were" at #8, "Evergreen (Love Theme From A Star Is Born)" at # 16, "People" at #13, and "Don't Rain on My Parade" at #46. Many of her films were represented on AFI's 100 Years ... series. AFI's 100 Years ... 100 Laughs, highlighting "the films and film artists that have made audiences laugh throughout the century," ranked What's Up, Doc? at #61. AFI's 100 Years ... 100 Passions highlighted the top 100 greatest love stories in American cinema and placed The Way We Were at #8, Funny Girl at #41, and What's Up, Doc? at #68. AFI's Greatest Movie Musicals highlighted the 25 greatest American movie musicals, ranking Funny Girl at #16.[citation needed]

In December 2016, the film Funny Girl was marked for preservation by the Library of Congress in the National Film Registry.[205] In March 2017, the song "People" was selected for preservation in the National Recording Registry. Streisand said she was humbled to have the song honored "as part of the flow of our nation's culture."[206]

Professional memberships

As one of the most acclaimed actresses, singers, directors, writers, composers, producers, designers, photographers and activists in every medium that she's worked in, Streisand is the only artist who is concurrently a member of the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers, Screen Actors Guild, American Federation of Television and Radio Artists, Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences and Actors' Equity Association, as well as the honorary chairwoman of the board of directors of Hadassah's International Research Institute on Women.[207]

"Streisand effect"

Main article: Streisand effect

In a 2003 lawsuit, Streisand claimed that a website illustrating coastal erosion invaded her privacy because one of its 12,000 images happened to show her Malibu, California home; Streisand wanted the photo removed from the site. The suit was dismissed and the resultant publicity prompted hundreds of thousands of people to download the photo, which had been accessed only four times prior to Streisand initiating legal action.[208][209] The term Streisand effect was coined to refer to an attempt to censor information which unintentionally publicizes that information.[210]

Awards and nominations

Main article: List of awards and nominations received by Barbra Streisand

Streisand has been nominated 43 times for a Grammy Award, winning eight. In addition, she has received two special non-competitive awards; the 1992 Grammy Legend Award and the 1994 Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award. She has also been inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame four times. In 2011, she was honored as MusiCares Person of the Year by the Grammy Foundation for her artistic achievement in the music industry.

Appearances

Filmography

Year Title Role Notes
1968 Funny Girl Fanny Brice
1969 Hello, Dolly! Dolly Levi
1970 On a Clear Day You Can See Forever Daisy Gamble / Melinda Tentrees
The Owl and the Pussycat Doris Wilgus/Wadsworth/Wellington/Waverly
1972 What's Up, Doc? Judy Maxwell
Up the Sandbox Margaret Reynolds
1973 The Way We Were Katie Morosky
1974 For Pete's Sake Henrietta "Henry" Robbins
1975 Funny Lady Fanny Brice
1976 A Star Is Born Esther Hoffman Howard
1979 The Main Event Hillary Kramer
1981 All Night Long Cheryl Gibbons
1983 Yentl Yentl Mendel / Anshel Mendel Also director, producer, and co-writer
1987 Nuts Claudia Faith Draper
1991 The Prince of Tides Dr. Susan Lowenstein Also director and producer
1996 The Mirror Has Two Faces Rose Morgan Also director and producer
2004 Meet the Fockers Rozalin "Roz" Focker
2010 Little Fockers Rozalin "Roz" Focker
2012 The Guilt Trip Joyce Brewster

Broadway performances

West End performances

Year Title Notes
1966 Funny Girl April 13, 1966 – July 16, 1966 at the Prince of Wales Theatre, London.

Television specials

Year Title Notes
1965 My Name Is Barbra Aired on CBS April 28, 1965
1966 Color Me Barbra Aired on CBS March 30, 1966
1967 The Belle of 14th Street Aired on CBS October 11, 1967
1968 A Happening in Central Park Recorded June 17, 1967; Aired Sept. 15, 1968 to coincide with release of Funny Girl
1973 Barbra Streisand ... And Other Musical Instruments Aired on CBS November 2, 1973
1975 Funny Girl to Funny Lady Aired on ABC
1976 Barbra: With One More Look at You
1978 Getting in Shape for The Main Event
1983 A Film Is Born: The Making of 'Yentl'
1986 Putting it Together: The Making of The Broadway Album
1986 One Voice
1994 Barbra Streisand: The Concert Also producer and director
2001 Barbra Streisand: Timeless Aired on FOX February 14, 2001 (1 hour edited version)
2009 Streisand: Live in Concert Aired on CBS April 25, 2009[211] (Filmed in Florida in 2006)
2011 Barbra Streisand: One Night Only at The Village Vanguard Aired on PBS, premiered on August 6, 2011
2013 Barbra Streisand: Back to Brooklyn Aired on PBS, premiered on November 29, 2013
2017 The Music ... The Mem'ries ... The Magic! Aired on Netflix, premiered November 22, 2017

Tours

Year Title Continents Box-office proceeds Total audience
1966 An Evening with Barbra Streisand Tour North America $480,000 67,500
1993–1994 Barbra Streisand in Concert North America and Europe $50 million 400,000
1999–2000 Timeless North America and Australia $70 million 200,000
2006–2007 Streisand North America and Europe $119.5 million 425,000
2012–2013 Barbra Live North America and Europe $66 million 254,958
2016–2017 Barbra: The Music, The Mem'ries, The Magic North America $53 million 203,423

Discography

Main article: Barbra Streisand discography

Autobiography

Streisand has stated she is writing her autobiography but has stopped and started at various points.[212] In May 2015, Viking Press announced it had bought Streisand's memoirs, which will cover her entire life and career, and would publish it in 2017.[213] As of 2022, the book remains unpublished.[214]

Explanatory notes

  1. ^ Rossi gives an example of how Streisand's songs are infused with meaning, such as in the film A Star Is Born. A clip of her singing "Evergreen" with co-star Kris Kristofferson shows him horsing around with her as she sang, and the look of "pure seduction" she gave him in return is seen in her eyes and heard in her voice. "When Barbra's singing, she's singing just for you."[35][109]

References

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  6. ^ Kagan, Jeremy. Directors Close Up, Scarecrow Press (2006) p. 297
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Further reading

  • Andersen, Christopher (2006). Barbra: The Way She Is. Harper-Collins. ISBN 0-06-056256-0.
  • Edwards, Anne (1997). Streisand: A Biography. Little, Brown. ISBN 978-0-316-21138-3.
  • Gabler, Neal. (2016). Barbra Streisand: Redefining Beauty, Femininity, and Power, Yale University Press ISBN 978-0300210910
  • Laufenberg, Norbert B. (2005). Entertainment Celebrities. Trafford Publishing. ISBN 1-4120-5335-8.
  • Pohly, Linda (2000). The Barbra Streisand Companion: A Guide to Her Vocal Style and Repertoire. Greenwood Press. ISBN 0-313-30414-9.
  • Riese, Randall (1993). Her Name Is Barbra: An Intimate Portrait of the Real Barbra Streisand. Birch Lane Press. ISBN 1-55972-203-7.
  • Santopietro, Tom (2006). The Importance of Being Barbra: The Brilliant, Tumultuous Career of Barbra Streisand. Thomas Dunne. ISBN 978-0-312-34879-3.
  • Schapiro, Steve; Schiller, Lawrence (2016). Barbra Streisand. Taschen. ISBN 9783836563239.
  • Spada, James (1995). Streisand: Her Life. Crown Publishers, Inc. ISBN 0-517-59753-5.

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Streisand redirects here For her tour see Streisand concert tour For the phenomenon named after her see Streisand effect For other uses see Barbra Streisand disambiguation Barbara Joan Barbra Streisand ˈ s t r aɪ s ae n d born April 24 1942 is an American singer actress and director With a career spanning over six decades she has achieved success in multiple fields of entertainment and is among the few performers awarded an Emmy Grammy Oscar and Tony EGOT Barbra StreisandStreisand in 2018BornBarbara Joan Streisand 1942 04 24 April 24 1942 age 80 New York City U S EducationErasmus Hall High SchoolOccupationsSingeractressfilmmakerWorksDiscographySpousesElliott Gould m 1963 div 1971 wbr James Brolin m 1998 wbr PartnersJon Peters 1973 1982 Richard Baskin 1983 1987 ChildrenJason GouldRelativesRoslyn Kind half sister Adam Streisand second cousin AwardsFull listMusical careerGenresBroadwaytraditional popdiscoInstrument s VocalsYears active1960 presentLabelsColumbiaWebsitebarbrastreisand wbr comStreisand began her career by performing in nightclubs and Broadway theaters in the early 1960s Following her guest appearances on various television shows she signed to Columbia Records insisting that she retain full artistic control and accepting lower pay in exchange an arrangement that continued throughout her career 1 and released her debut The Barbra Streisand Album 1963 which won the Grammy Award for Album of the Year Throughout her recording career Streisand has topped the US Billboard 200 chart with 11 albums a record for a woman including People 1964 The Way We Were 1974 Guilty 1980 and The Broadway Album 1985 2 She also achieved five number one singles on the US Billboard Hot 100 The Way We Were Evergreen You Don t Bring Me Flowers No More Tears Enough Is Enough and Woman in Love Following her established recording success in the 1960s Streisand ventured into film by the end of that decade 3 She starred in the critically acclaimed Funny Girl 1968 for which she won the Academy Award for Best Actress 4 Additional fame followed with films including the extravagant musical Hello Dolly 1969 the screwball comedy What s Up Doc 1972 and the romantic drama The Way We Were 1973 Streisand won a second Academy Award for writing the love theme from A Star Is Born 1976 the first woman to be honored as a composer 5 With the release of Yentl 1983 Streisand became the first woman to write produce direct and star in a major studio film 6 The film won an Oscar for Best Original Score and a Golden Globe for Best Motion Picture Musical Streisand also received the Golden Globe Award for Best Director becoming the first and for 37 years the only woman to win that award Streisand later directed The Prince of Tides 1991 and The Mirror Has Two Faces 1996 With sales exceeding 150 million records worldwide Streisand is one of the best selling recording artists of all time 7 8 According to the Recording Industry Association of America RIAA she is the second highest certified female artist in the United States with 68 5 million certified album units 9 Billboard ranked Streisand as the greatest female artist on the Billboard 200 chart and the top Adult Contemporary female artist of all time 10 11 Her accolades include two Academy Awards 12 10 Grammy Awards including the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award and the Grammy Legend Award 13 five Emmy Awards four Peabody Awards 14 the Presidential Medal of Freedom 15 and nine Golden Globes 16 Contents 1 Early life 1 1 Family 1 2 Education 2 Career beginnings 2 1 Nightclub shows 2 2 Early theatre roles and Broadway debut 2 3 Early television appearances 2 4 First albums 2 5 Return to the stage 3 Career 3 1 Singing 3 2 Acting 4 Artistry 5 Personal life 5 1 Relationships and family 5 2 Name 5 3 Politics 6 Philanthropy 7 Legacy 7 1 Honors 7 2 Professional memberships 7 3 Streisand effect 8 Awards and nominations 9 Appearances 9 1 Filmography 9 2 Broadway performances 9 3 West End performances 9 4 Television specials 10 Tours 11 Discography 12 Autobiography 13 Explanatory notes 14 References 15 Further reading 16 External linksEarly lifeFamily Streisand was born on April 24 1942 in Brooklyn New York City the daughter of Diana Ida nee Rosen 1908 2002 17 and Emanuel Streisand Her mother had been a soprano in her youth and considered a career in music but later became a school secretary 18 Her father was a high school teacher at the same school where they first met 19 Streisand s family is Jewish 20 21 22 Her paternal grandparents emigrated from Galicia modern day Poland and Ukraine in the Austro Hungarian Empire and her maternal grandparents from the Russian Empire where her grandfather had been a cantor 23 24 In August 1943 a few months after Streisand s first birthday her father died at age 34 from complications from an epileptic seizure possibly the result of a head injury years earlier 25 3 The family fell into near poverty with her mother working as a low paid bookkeeper 26 As an adult Streisand remembered those early years as always feeling like an outcast explaining Everybody else s father came home from work at the end of the day Mine didn t 25 3 Her mother tried to pay their bills but could not give her daughter the attention she craved When I wanted love from my mother she gave me food Streisand says 25 3 Streisand recalls that her mother had a great voice and sang semi professionally on occasion During a visit to the Catskills when Streisand was 13 she told Rosie O Donnell she and her mother recorded some songs on tape That session was the first time Streisand ever asserted herself as an artist which also became her first moment of inspiration 27 She has an older brother Sheldon and a half sister singer Roslyn Kind 28 29 30 from her mother s remarriage to Louis Kind in 1950 31 32 Education Streisand began her education at the Jewish Orthodox Yeshiva of Brooklyn when she was five 33 She was considered bright and inquisitive about everything however she lacked discipline often shouting answers to questions out of turn 34 25 3 She next entered Public School 89 in Brooklyn and during those early school years began watching television and going to movies I always wanted to be somebody to be famous You know get out of Brooklyn 25 3 Streisand became known by others in the neighborhood for her voice With the other kids she remembers sitting on the stoop in front of their apartment building and singing I was considered the girl on the block with the good voice 25 3 That talent became a way for her to gain attention She would often practice her singing in the hallway of her apartment building which gave her voice an echoing quality 35 She made her singing debut at a PTA assembly where she became a hit to everyone but her mother who was mostly critical of her daughter Streisand was invited to sing at weddings and summer camp along with having an unsuccessful audition at MGM records when she was nine By the time she was 13 her mother began supporting her talent helping her make a four song demo tape including Zing Went the Strings of My Heart and You ll Never Know 25 4 Becoming an actress was her main objective That desire was made stronger when she saw her first Broadway play The Diary of Anne Frank when she was 14 The star in the play was Susan Strasberg whose acting she wanted to emulate 25 4 Streisand began spending her spare time in the library studying the biographies of various stage actresses such as Eleanora Duse and Sarah Bernhardt In addition she began reading novels and plays and studying the acting theories of Konstantin Stanislavski and Michael Chekhov 25 4 She attended Erasmus Hall High School in Brooklyn in 1956 where she became an honor student in modern history English and Spanish She also joined the Freshman Chorus and Choral Club where she sang with another choir member and classmate Neil Diamond 36 Diamond recalls We were two poor kids in Brooklyn We hung out in the front of Erasmus High and smoked cigarettes The school was near an art movie house and he recalls that she was always aware of the films they were showing 37 She had a crush on 15 year old US Chess Champion and fellow student Bobby Fischer whom she found to be very sexy 38 39 During the summer of 1957 she got her first stage experience as a walk on at the Playhouse in Malden Bridge New York That small part was followed by a role as the kid sister in Picnic and one as a vamp in Desk Set 25 4 In her second year she took a night job at the Cherry Lane Theatre in Greenwich Village helping backstage When she was a senior she rehearsed for a small part in Driftwood a play staged in a midtown attic space 25 5 She graduated aged 16 from Erasmus Hall in January 1959 and despite her mother s pleas that she stay out of show business she set out trying to get roles on the New York City stage 25 5 After renting a small apartment on 48th street in the heart of the theater district she accepted any job she could involving the stage and at every opportunity she made the rounds of the casting offices 25 5 Career beginnings Streisand c 1962 Aged 16 and living on her own Streisand took various menial jobs to have some income During one period she lacked a permanent address and found herself sleeping at the home of friends or anywhere else she could set up the army cot she carried around When desperate she returned to her mother s flat in Brooklyn for a home cooked meal However her mother was horrified by her daughter s gypsy like lifestyle wrote biographer Karen Swenson and again begged her to give up trying to get into show business 25 6 but Streisand took her mother s pleadings as even more reason to keep trying My desires were strengthened by wanting to prove to my mother that I could be a star 25 6 She took a job as an usher at the Lunt Fontanne Theater for The Sound of Music early in 1960 During the run of the play she heard that the casting director was auditioning for more singers and it marked the first time she sang in pursuit of a job 25 6 Although the director felt she was not right for the part he encouraged her to begin including her talent as a singer on her resume when looking for other work 25 6 She asked her boyfriend Barry Dennen to tape her singing copies of which she could then give out to possible employers Dennen found a guitarist to accompany her We spent the afternoon taping and the moment I heard the first playback I went insane This nutty little kook had one of the most breathtaking voices I d ever heard when she was finished and I turned off the machine I needed a long moment before I dared look up at her 25 6 Dennen grew enthusiastic and he convinced her to enter a talent contest at the Lion a gay nightclub in Manhattan s Greenwich Village She performed two songs after which there was a stunned silence from the audience followed by thunderous applause when she was pronounced the winner 25 7 She was invited back and sang at the club for several weeks 40 It was during this time that she dropped the second a from her first name 40 switching from Barbara to Barbra due to her dislike of her original name 41 In the early days Streisand was repeatedly told she was too ugly to be a star and advised to get a nose job which she did not do 1 Nightclub shows Streisand was next asked to audition at the Bon Soir nightclub after which she was signed up at 125 a week It became her first professional engagement in September 1960 where she was the opening act for comedian Phyllis Diller She recalls it was the first time she had been in that kind of upscale environment I d never been in a nightclub until I sang in one 25 7 Dennen now wanted to expose Streisand to his vast record collection of female singers including Billie Holiday Mabel Mercer Ethel Waters and Edith Piaf Streisand realized she could still become an actress by first gaining recognition as a singer 25 7 From his collection she drew the song that best defined her mission in singing A Sleepin Bee with music by Harold Arlen and lyrics by Truman Capote for the 1954 musical House of flowers The lyrics to that song gave me the three acts of a play that I longed for as an actress Streisand said And Harold was one of those writers who could write these magnificent melodies That gave me what I needed 42 According to biographer Christopher Nickens hearing other great female singers benefited her style as she began creating different emotional characters when performing which gave her singing a greater range She improved her stage presence when speaking to the audience between songs She discovered that her Brooklyn bred style of humor was received favorably 25 8 During the next six months appearing at the club some began comparing her singing voice to famous names such as Judy Garland Lena Horne and Fanny Brice Her conversational ability to charm an audience with spontaneous humor during performances became more sophisticated and professional 25 8 Theater critic Leonard Harris wrote She s twenty by the time she s thirty she will have rewritten the record books 25 9 Her name is Barbra Streisand She is 20 years old she has a three octave promiscuity of range she packs more personal dynamic power than anybody I can recall since Libby Holman or Helen Morgan She can sing as loud as Ethel Merman and as persuasively as Lena or Ella or as brassy as a Sophie Tucker and only Barbra Streisand can turn Cry Me a River into something comparable to Enrico Caruso having his first bash at Pagliacci When Streisand cries you a river you got a river Sam and she will be around 50 years from now if good songs are still written to be sung by good singers syndicated columnist Robert Ruark on her 1963 performances at the Blue Angel 43 44 Early theatre roles and Broadway debut Streisand accepted her first role on the New York stage in Another Evening with Harry Stoones a satirical comedy play in which she acted and sang two solos The show received terrible reviews and closed the next day With the help of her new personal manager Martin Erlichman she had successful shows in Detroit and St Louis Erlichman then booked her at an even more upscale nightclub in Manhattan the Blue Angel where she became a bigger hit during the period from 1961 to 1962 Streisand once told Jimmy Fallon with whom she sang a duet 45 on the Tonight Show that Erlichman was a fantastic manager and still managed her career after 50 years 46 While appearing at the Blue Angel theater director and playwright Arthur Laurents asked her to audition for a new musical comedy he was directing I Can Get It for You Wholesale She got the part of secretary to the lead actor businessman played by then unknown Elliott Gould 25 9 They fell in love during rehearsals and eventually moved into a small apartment together The show opened on March 22 1962 at the Shubert Theater and received rave reviews Her performance stopped the show cold wrote Nickens 25 9 25 10 Groucho Marx while hosting the Tonight Show told her that 20 was an extremely young age to be a success on Broadway 47 Streisand received a Tony Award nomination and New York Drama Critic s prize for Best Supporting Actress 48 The show was recorded and made into an album 25 10 Early television appearances Streisand in 1966 Streisand s first television appearance was on The Tonight Show then credited to its usual host Jack Paar She was seen during an April 1961 episode on which Orson Bean substituted for Paar She sang Harold Arlen s A Sleepin Bee 49 During her appearance Phyllis Diller also a guest on the show called her one of the great singing talents in the world 50 Later in 1961 before she was cast in Another Evening With Harry Stoones she became a semi regular on PM East PM West a talk variety series hosted by Mike Wallace and Joyce Davidson 51 Some of Streisand s PM East segments survive as audio recordings and still photos survive but moving images do not In early 1962 she went into the Columbia Records studio for the cast recording of I Can Get It for You Wholesale Also that spring she participated in a 25th anniversary studio recording of Pins and Needles the classic popular front musical originated in 1937 by the International Ladies Garment Workers Union Reviews of both albums highlighted Streisand s performances 52 In May 1962 Streisand appeared on The Garry Moore Show where she sang Happy Days Are Here Again for the first time Her sad slow version of the 1930s upbeat Democratic Party theme song became her signature song during this early phase of her career 25 10 Johnny Carson had her on the Tonight Show half a dozen times in 1962 and 1963 and she became a favorite of his television audience and himself personally He described her as an exciting new singer 53 During one show she joked with Groucho Marx who liked her style of humor 25 10 She did three or four songs and she was beyond brilliant so amazing Elliott Gould about their first play together in 1961 54 In December 1962 she made the first of a number of appearances on The Ed Sullivan Show She was later a cohost on the Mike Douglas Show and also made an impact on a number of Bob Hope specials Performing with her on The Ed Sullivan Show was Liberace who became an instant fan of the young singer Liberace invited her to Las Vegas to perform as his opening act at the Riviera Hotel Liberace is credited with introducing Barbra to audiences on the West Coast 55 The following September during her ongoing shows at Harrah s Hotel in Lake Tahoe she and Elliott Gould took time off to get married in Carson City Nevada With her career and popularity rising so quickly she saw her marriage to Gould as a stabilizing influence 25 11 First albums When she was 21 Streisand signed a contract with Columbia Records that gave her full creative control in exchange for less money Lieberson relented and agreed to sign her Nearly three decades later Streisand said The most important thing about that first contract actually the thing we held out for was a unique clause giving me the right to choose my own material It was the only thing I really cared about I still received lots of pressure from the label to include some pop hits on my first album but I held out for the songs that really meant something to me 56 1 She took advantage of this several times during her career 1 Columbia wanted to call her first album in early 1963 Sweet And Saucy Streisand Streisand used her control to insist that it was called The Barbra Streisand Album saying if you saw me on TV you could just go to the record shop and ask for the Barbra Streisand album It s common sense 1 It reached the top 10 on the Billboard chart and won three Grammy Awards 25 11 The album made her the best selling female vocalist in the country 25 11 That summer she also released The Second Barbra Streisand Album which established her as the most exciting new personality since Elvis Presley 25 11 She ended that breakthrough year of 1963 by performing one night concerts in Indianapolis San Jose Chicago Sacramento and Los Angeles 25 11 Return to the stage Streisand returned to Broadway in 1964 with an acclaimed performance as entertainer Fanny Brice in Funny Girl at the Winter Garden Theatre The show introduced two of her signature songs People and Don t Rain on My Parade Because of the musical s overnight success she appeared on the cover of Time In 1964 Streisand was nominated for a Tony Award for Best Leading Actress in a Musical but lost to Carol Channing in Hello Dolly Streisand received an honorary Star of the Decade Tony Award in 1970 57 In 1966 she repeated her success with Funny Girl in London s West End at the Prince of Wales Theatre From 1965 to 1968 she appeared in her first four solo television specials including the Emmy award winning My Name is Barbra CareerThis section of a biography of a living person needs additional citations for verification Please help by adding reliable sources Contentious material about living persons that is unsourced or poorly sourced must be removed immediately especially if potentially libelous or harmful Find sources Barbra Streisand news newspapers books scholar JSTOR January 2017 Learn how and when to remove this template message Singing Streisand has recorded 50 studio albums almost all with Columbia Records Her early works in the 1960s her debut The Barbra Streisand Album The Second Barbra Streisand Album The Third Album My Name Is Barbra etc are considered classic renditions of theatre and cabaret standards including her pensive version of the normally uptempo Happy Days Are Here Again She performed this in a duet with Judy Garland on The Judy Garland Show Garland referred to her on the air as one of the last great belters They also sang There s No Business Like Show Business with Ethel Merman joining them 58 On The Ed Sullivan Show in 1969 Beginning with My Name Is Barbra her early albums were often medley filled keepsakes of her television specials Starting in 1969 she began attempting more contemporary material but like many talented singers of the day she found herself out of her element with rock Her vocal talents prevailed and she gained newfound success with the pop and ballad oriented Richard Perry produced album Stoney End in 1971 The title track written by Laura Nyro was a major hit for Streisand During the 1970s she was also highly prominent on the pop charts with Top 10 recordings such as The Way We Were US No 1 Evergreen Love Theme from A Star Is Born US No 1 No More Tears Enough Is Enough 1979 with Donna Summer which as of 2010 update is reportedly still the most commercially successful duet US No 1 You Don t Bring Me Flowers with Neil Diamond US No 1 and The Main Event US No 3 some of which came from soundtrack recordings of her films As the 1970s ended Streisand was named the most successful female singer in the U S only Elvis Presley and The Beatles had sold more albums 59 In 1980 she released her best selling effort to date the Barry Gibb produced Guilty The album contained the hits Woman in Love which spent several weeks on top of the pop charts in the fall of 1980 Guilty and What Kind of Fool After years of largely ignoring Broadway and traditional pop music in favor of more contemporary material Streisand returned to her musical theater roots Columbia records objected that the songs she wanted to sing were not pop songs but Streisand asserted the full creative control her contract gave her I ve always had the right to sing what I want 1 with 1985 s The Broadway Album which was unexpectedly successful holding the coveted No 1 Billboard position for three straight weeks and being certified quadruple platinum The album featured tunes by Rodgers and Hammerstein George Gershwin Jerome Kern and Stephen Sondheim who was persuaded to rework some of his songs especially for this recording The Broadway Album was met with acclaim including a Grammy nomination for album of the year and handed Streisand her eighth Grammy as Best Female Vocalist After releasing the live album One Voice in 1986 Streisand was set to release another album of Broadway songs in 1988 She recorded several cuts for the album under the direction of Rupert Holmes including On My Own from Les Miserables a medley of How Are Things in Glocca Morra and Heather on the Hill from Finian s Rainbow and Brigadoon respectively All I Ask of You from The Phantom of the Opera Warm All Over from The Most Happy Fella and an unusual solo version of Make Our Garden Grow from Candide Streisand was not happy with the direction of the project and it was scrapped Only Warm All Over and a reworked lite FM friendly version of All I Ask of You were ever released the latter appearing on Streisand s 1988 effort Till I Loved You At the beginning of the 1990s Streisand started focusing on her film directorial efforts and became almost inactive in the recording studio In 1991 a four disc box set Just for the Record was released A compilation spanning Streisand s entire career to date it featured over 70 tracks of live performances greatest hits rarities and previously unreleased material Streisand taping her TV Special Barbra Streisand and other Musical Instruments in 1973 The following year Streisand s concert fundraising events helped propel President Bill Clinton into the spotlight and into office 60 Streisand later introduced Clinton at his inauguration in 1993 Streisand s music career however was largely on hold A 1992 appearance at an APLA benefit as well as the aforementioned inaugural performance hinted that Streisand was becoming more receptive to the idea of live performances A tour was suggested though Streisand would not immediately commit to it citing her well known stage fright as well as security concerns During this time Streisand finally returned to the recording studio and released Back to Broadway in June 1993 The album was not as universally lauded as its predecessor but it did debut at No 1 on the pop charts a rare feat for an artist of Streisand s age especially given that it relegated Janet Jackson s Janet to the No 2 spot One of the album s highlights was a medley of I Have A Love One Hand One Heart a duet with Johnny Mathis who Streisand said is one of her favorite singers 61 62 In 1993 The New York Times music critic Stephen Holden wrote that Streisand enjoys a cultural status that only one other American entertainer Frank Sinatra has achieved in the last half century 63 In September 1993 Streisand announced her first public concert appearances in 27 years discounting her Las Vegas nightclub performances between 1969 and 1972 What began as a two night New Year s event at the MGM Grand Las Vegas led to a multi city tour in the summer of 1994 Tickets for the tour sold out in under an hour Streisand also appeared on the covers of major magazines 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 US 50 to US 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 and earned five Emmy Awards and the Peabody Award while the taped broadcast on HBO was the highest rated concert special in HBO s 30 year history Following the tour s conclusion Streisand once again kept a low profile musically instead focusing her efforts on acting and directing duties as well as a burgeoning romance with actor James Brolin In 1996 Streisand released I Finally Found Someone as a duet with Canadian singer and songwriter Bryan Adams The song was nominated for an Oscar as it was part of the soundtrack of Streisand s self directed movie The Mirror Has Two Faces It reached 8 on the Billboard Hot 100 and was her first significant hit in almost a decade and her first top 10 hit on the Hot 100 and first gold single since 1981 In 1997 she finally returned to the recording studio releasing Higher Ground a collection of songs of a loosely inspirational nature which also featured a duet with Celine Dion The album received generally favorable reviews and once again debuted at No 1 on the pop charts Following her marriage to Brolin in 1998 Streisand recorded A Love Like Ours the following year Reviews were mixed with many critics complaining about the somewhat syrupy sentiments and overly lush arrangements however it did produce a modest hit for Streisand in the country tinged If You Ever Leave Me a duet with Vince Gill On New Year s Eve 1999 Streisand returned to the concert stage selling out in the first few hours eight months before her return 64 At the end of the millennium she was the number one female singer in the U S with at least two No 1 albums in each decade since she began performing A two disc live album Timeless Live in Concert was released in 2000 Streisand performed versions of the Timeless concert in Sydney and Melbourne Australia in early 2000 In advance of four concerts two each in Los Angeles and New York in September 2000 Streisand announced that she was retiring from playing public concerts Her performance of the song People was broadcast on the Internet via America Online Streisand s subsequent albums included Christmas Memories 2001 a somewhat somber collection of holiday songs and The Movie Album 2003 featuring famous film themes and backed by a large symphony orchestra Guilty Pleasures called Guilty Too in the UK a collaboration with Barry Gibb and a sequel to their Guilty was released worldwide in 2005 Streisand performing in July 2007 at The O2 Arena in London In February 2006 Streisand recorded the song Smile alongside Tony Bennett at Streisand s Malibu home The song is included on Bennett s 80th birthday album Duets In September 2006 the pair filmed a live performance of the song for Tony Bennett An American Classic directed by Rob Marshall The special aired on NBC November 21 2006 and was released on DVD the same day Streisand s duet with Bennett opened the special That same year Streisand announced her intent to tour again in an effort to raise money and awareness for multiple issues After four days of rehearsal at the Sovereign Bank Arena in Trenton New Jersey the 2006 Streisand concert tour began on October 4 at the Wachovia Center in Philadelphia continued with a featured stop in Sunrise Florida and concluded at Staples Center in Los Angeles on November 20 2006 Special guests Il Divo were interwoven throughout the show Streisand s 20 concert tour set box office records At the age of 64 she grossed 92 457 062 and set house gross records in 14 of the 16 arenas played on the tour She set the third place record for her show of October 9 2006 at Madison Square Garden the first and second place records of which are held by her two shows in September 2000 She set the second place record at MGM Grand Garden Arena with her December 31 1999 show being the house record and highest grossing concert of all time This led many people to openly criticize Streisand for price gouging as many tickets sold for upwards of 1 000 65 A collection of performances culled from different stops on this tour Live in Concert 2006 debuted at No 7 on the Billboard 200 making it Streisand s 29th Top 10 album 66 In the summer of 2007 Streisand gave concerts for the first time in continental Europe The first concert took place in Zurich June 18 then Vienna June 22 Paris June 26 Berlin June 30 Stockholm July 4 canceled Manchester July 10 and Celbridge near Dublin July 14 followed by three concerts in London July 18 22 and 25 the only European city where Streisand had performed before 2007 Tickets for the London dates cost between 100 00 and 1 500 00 and for Ireland between 118 and 500 The Ireland date was marred by issues with serious parking and seating problems leading to the event s being dubbed a fiasco by Hot Press 67 The tour included a 58 piece orchestra In February 2008 Forbes listed Streisand as the No 2 earning female musician between June 2006 and June 2007 with earnings of about 60 million 68 On November 17 2008 Streisand returned to the studio to begin recording what would be her 63rd album 69 and it was announced that Diana Krall was producing the album 70 Streisand is one of the recipients of the 2008 Kennedy Center Honors 71 On December 7 2008 she visited the White House as part of the ceremonies 69 On April 25 2009 CBS aired Streisand s latest television special Streisand Live in Concert highlighting the featured stop from her 2006 North American tour in Fort Lauderdale Florida On September 26 2009 Streisand performed a one night only show at the Village Vanguard in New York City s Greenwich Village 72 This performance was later released on DVD as One Night Only Barbra Streisand and Quartet at The Village Vanguard On September 29 2009 Streisand and Columbia Records released the studio album Love is the Answer produced by Diana Krall 73 On October 2 2009 Streisand made her British television performance debut with an interview on Friday Night with Jonathan Ross to promote the album This album debuted at No 1 on the Billboard 200 and registered her biggest weekly sales since 1997 making Streisand the only artist in history to achieve No 1 albums in five different decades On February 1 2010 Streisand joined over 80 other artists in recording a new version of the 1985 charity single We Are the World Quincy Jones and Lionel Richie planned to release the new version to mark the 25th anniversary of its original recording These plans changed however in view of the devastating earthquake that hit Haiti on January 12 2010 and on February 12 the song now called We Are the World 25 for Haiti made its debut as a charity single to support relief aid for the island nation Streisand was honored as MusiCares Person of the Year on February 11 2011 two days prior to the 53rd Annual Grammy Awards 74 That same year Streisand sang Somewhere from the Broadway musical West Side Story with child prodigy Jackie Evancho on Evancho s album Dream with Me 75 On October 11 2012 Streisand gave a three hour concert performance before a crowd of 18 000 as part of the ongoing inaugural events of Barclays Center and part of her current Barbra Live tour in Brooklyn her first ever public performance in her home borough Streisand was joined onstage by trumpeter Chris Botti Italian operatic trio Il Volo and her son Jason Gould The concert included musical tributes by Streisand to Donna Summer and Marvin Hamlisch both of whom had died earlier in 2012 Confirmed attendees included Barbara Walters Jimmy Fallon Sting Katie Couric Woody Allen Michael Douglas and New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg as well as designers Calvin Klein Donna Karan Ralph Lauren and Michael Kors 76 77 In June 2013 she gave two concerts in Bloomfield Stadium Tel Aviv Streisand is one of many singers who use teleprompters during their live performances Streisand has defended her choice in using teleprompters to display lyrics and sometimes banter 78 In September 2014 79 she released Partners a new album of duets that features collaborations with Elvis Presley Andrea Bocelli Stevie Wonder Lionel Richie Billy Joel Babyface Michael Buble Josh Groban John Mayer John Legend Blake Shelton and Jason Gould This album topped the Billboard 200 with sales of 196 000 copies in the first week making Streisand the only recording artist to have a number one album in each of the last six decades 80 It was also certified gold in November 2014 and platinum in January 2015 thus becoming Streisand s 52nd gold and 31st Platinum album more than any other female artist in history 81 In May 2016 Streisand announced the upcoming album Encore Movie Partners Sing Broadway to be released in August following a nine city concert tour Barbra The Music The Mem ries The Magic including performances in Los Angeles Las Vegas Philadelphia and a return to her hometown of Brooklyn 82 In June 2018 Streisand confirmed she was working on the new studio album Walls 83 released November 2 2018 just prior to the U S midterm election The album s lead single Don t Lie to Me was written as a criticism of America s political climate amid the presidency of Donald Trump 84 85 while the title track alludes to Trump s frequent calls for a wall at the Mexico border 86 Acting Streisand in Hello Dolly 1969 Streisand s first film was a reprise of her Broadway hit Funny Girl 1968 an artistic and commercial success directed by Hollywood veteran William Wyler She won the 1968 Academy Award for Best Actress for the role 87 sharing it with Katharine Hepburn The Lion in Winter the only time there has been a tie in this Oscar category 88 Her next two movies were also based on musicals Jerry Herman s Hello Dolly directed by Gene Kelly 1969 and Alan Jay Lerner s and Burton Lane s On a Clear Day You Can See Forever directed by Vincente Minnelli 1970 while her fourth film was based on the Broadway play The Owl and the Pussycat 1970 citation needed During the 1970s Streisand starred in several screwball comedies including What s Up Doc 1972 and The Main Event 1979 both co starring Ryan O Neal and For Pete s Sake 1974 with Michael Sarrazin One of her most famous roles during this period was in the drama The Way We Were 1973 with Robert Redford for which she received an Academy Award nomination as Best Actress She earned her second Academy Award for Best Original Song with lyricist Paul Williams for the song Evergreen from A Star Is Born in 1976 89 in which she also starred Along with Paul Newman Sidney Poitier and later Steve McQueen Streisand formed First Artists Production Company in 1969 so actors could secure properties and develop movie projects for themselves Streisand s initial outing with First Artists was Up the Sandbox 1972 90 From 1969 to 1980 Streisand appeared in Top Ten Money Making Stars Poll the annual motion picture exhibitors poll of Top 10 Box Office attractions a total of 10 times 91 often as the only woman on the list After the commercially disappointing All Night Long in 1981 Streisand s film output decreased considerably She has acted in only eight films since I m impressed with her choosing Yentl it was extraordinary But for some reason Hollywood turned against her there was a lack of sympathy toward her Christ she could have played Cleopatra better than Liz Taylor with her enormous power and the subtlety of her singing She is one of the great actresses and she hasn t been well used director John Huston Playboy interview 1985 92 Streisand produced a number of her own films setting up Barwood Films in 1972 The first film she made Yentl 1983 was turned down by every Hollywood studio at least once when she asked to not only direct the picture but also to star in the film until Orion Pictures took on the project and gave the film a budget of 14 million 93 For Yentl 1983 she was producer director and star an experience she repeated for The Prince of Tides 1991 and The Mirror Has Two Faces 1996 There was controversy when Yentl received five Academy Award nominations but none for the major categories of Best Picture actress or Director 94 The Prince of Tides received even more Oscar nominations including Best Picture and Best Screenplay although not for director Upon completion of the film its screenwriter Pat Conroy who also authored the novel called Streisand a goddess who walks upon the earth 25 xii Streisand also co scripted Yentl with Jack Rosenthal something for which she is not always given credit 95 According to The New York Times editorial page editor Andrew Rosenthal in an interview with Allan Wolper The one thing that makes Barbra Streisand crazy is when nobody gives her the credit for having written Yentl 96 In 2004 Streisand made a return to film acting after an eight year hiatus in the comedy Meet the Fockers a sequel to Meet the Parents playing opposite Dustin Hoffman Ben Stiller Blythe Danner and Robert De Niro Streisand in On a Clear Day You Can See Forever 1970 In 2005 Streisand s Barwood Films Gary Smith and Sonny Murray purchased the rights to Simon Mawer s book Mendel s Dwarf 97 In December 2008 she stated that she was considering directing an adaptation of Larry Kramer s play The Normal Heart a project she has worked on since the mid 1990s 98 In December 2010 Streisand appeared in Little Fockers the third film from the Meet the Parents trilogy She reprised the role of Roz Focker alongside Dustin Hoffman On January 28 2011 The Hollywood Reporter announced that Paramount Pictures had given the green light to begin shooting the road trip comedy My Mother s Curse with Seth Rogen playing Streisand s character s son Anne Fletcher directed the project with a script by Dan Fogelman produced by Lorne Michaels John Goldwyn and Evan Goldberg Executive producers included Streisand Rogen Fogelman and David Ellison whose Skydance Productions co financed the road movie 99 Shooting began in spring 2011 and wrapped in July the film s title was eventually altered to The Guilt Trip and the movie was released in December 2012 Streisand was set to star in a film adaptation of the musical Gypsy featuring music by Jules Styne a book by Arthur Laurents and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim with Richard LaGravenese reportedly attached to the project as screenwriter 100 In April 2016 it was reported that Streisand was in advanced negotiations to star in and produce the film to be directed by Barry Levinson and distributed by STX Entertainment 101 Two months later the film s script had been completed and production was scheduled to begin in early 2017 102 However in 2019 Streisand was reported to have exited the project 103 In 2015 plans emerged for Streisand to direct a feature biopic about the 18th century Russian empress Catherine the Great based on the top 2014 Black List script produced by Gil Netter 104 with Keira Knightley starring 105 As of 2022 update nothing has come out of these plans ArtistryStreisand possesses a mezzo soprano vocal range 106 107 which Howard Cohen of the Miami Herald describes as peerless 107 Whitney Balliett wrote Streisand wows her listeners with her shrewd dynamics in your ear soft here elbowing loud there her bravura climbs her rolling vibrato and the singular Streisand from Brooklyn nasal quality of her voice a voice as immediately recognizable in its way as Louis Armstrong s 108 Music writer Allegra Rossi adds that Streisand creates complete compositions in her head Even though she can t read or write music Barbra hears melodies as completed compositions in her head She hears a melody and takes it in learning it quickly Barbra developed her ability to sustain long notes because she wanted to She can mold a tune that others cannot she s able to sing between song and speech keeping in tune carrying rhythm and meaning 35 a While she is predominantly a pop singer Streisand s voice has been described as semi operatic due to its strength and quality of tone 110 According to Adam Feldman of Time Out Streisand s signature vocal style is a suspension bridge between old school belting and microphone pop 111 She is known for her ability to hold relatively high notes both loud and soft with great intensity as well as for her ability to make slight but unobtrusive embellishments on a melodic line The former quality led classical pianist Glenn Gould to call himself a Streisand freak 112 In recent years critics and audiences have noted that her voice has lowered and acquired an occasionally husky edge However New York Times music critic Stephen Holden noted that her distinctive tone and musical instincts remain and that she still has the gift of conveying a primal human longing in a beautiful sound 110 Paul Taylor of The Independentwrote that Streisand has sounded a little scratchy and frayed though the stout resolve and superb technique with which Streisand manages to hoist it over these difficulties has come to seem morally as well aesthetically impressive 113 Reviewing Streisand s most recent studio effort Partners Gil Naveh of Haaretzdescribed Streisand s voice as velvety clear and powerful and the passing years have given it a fascinating depth and roughness 114 Personal lifeRelationships and family Streisand with husband Elliott Gould and son Jason 1967 With James Brolin 2013 Streisand has been married twice Her first husband was actor Elliott Gould whom she married on September 13 1963 They announced their separation on February 12 1969 and divorced on July 6 1971 They had one child Jason Gould who appeared as her on screen son in The Prince of Tides In 1969 and 1970 Streisand dated Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau 115 116 117 She started a relationship with hairdresser producer Jon Peters in 1973 118 He went on to be her manager and producer They broke up in 1982 during the making of Yentl but remain friends She is the godmother of his daughters Caleigh Peters and Skye Peters 119 From November 1983 to October 1987 Streisand lived with Baskin Robbins ice cream heir Richard Baskin 120 who wrote the lyrics to Here We Are At Last on her 1984 album Emotion She dated actor Don Johnson from December 1987 through at least September 1988 121 122 The pair recorded a duet of Till I Loved You In 1983 and 1989 respectively Streisand briefly dated actors Richard Gere 123 and Clint Eastwood 124 From 1989 to 1991 she was involved with composer James Newton Howard 125 Streisand dated tennis champion Andre Agassi from 1992 to 1993 Writing about the relationship in his 2009 autobiography Agassi said We agree that we re good for each other and so what if she s twenty eight years older We re simpatico and the public outcry only adds spice to our connection It makes our friendship feel forbidden taboo another piece of my overall rebellion Dating Barbra Streisand is like wearing Hot Lava 126 During the early to mid 1990s Streisand was in romantic relationships with several high profile men including newscaster Peter Jennings 127 as well as actors Liam Neeson 128 Jon Voight 129 and Peter Weller 130 Her second husband is actor James Brolin whom she married on July 1 1998 131 While they have no children together Brolin has two sons from his first marriage including actor Josh Brolin and one daughter from his second marriage 132 133 Streisand is the owner of multiple dogs and she loved her dog Samantha so much that she had her cloned 134 In March 2019 Streisand apologized for her controversial statements about Michael Jackson s accusers 135 Name Streisand changed her name from Barbara to Barbra because she said I hated the name but I refused to change it 136 Streisand further explained Well I was 18 and I wanted to be unique but I didn t want to change my name because that was too false You know people were saying you could be Joanie Sands or something like that My middle name is Joan And I said No let s see if I take out the a it s still Barbara but it s unique 137 A 1967 biography with a concert program said the spelling of her first name is an instance of partial rebellion she was advised to change her last name and retaliated by dropping an a from the first instead 138 Politics In the early years of her career Streisand s interest in politics was limited with the exception of her participation in activities of the anti nuclear group Women Strike for Peace in 1961 and 1962 139 In 1968 her political activism increased and she helped promote the presidential campaign of Eugene McCarthy who held an anti Vietnam War stance 140 In July 1968 with Harry Belafonte and others she performed at the Hollywood Bowl in a fundraising concert sponsored by the Southern Christian Leadership Conference to benefit the poor 141 Streisand has been an active supporter of the Democratic Party and many of its causes She was among the celebrities on President Richard Nixon s 1971 list of political enemies 142 In 1972 she assisted the presidential campaign of anti war candidate George McGovern by headlining the benefit concert Four for McGovern organized by actor Warren Beatty and record producer Lou Adler her concert recording was released as Live Concert at the Forum 143 The next year in association with liberal activist Stanley Sheinbaum and the American Civil Liberties Union Streisand performed a benefit at the mansion of film mogul Jennings Lang to pay for the legal defense of Daniel Ellsberg of Pentagon Papers fame Accompanied by a small combo including Marvin Hamlisch on piano Streisand took paid song requests from the star studded audience and by telephone to bring the night s total to 50 000 144 In 1984 Streisand joined Jane Fonda and ten other television and film industry notables to establish the activist group Hollywood Women s Political Committee HWPC the membership eventually growing to 300 The HWPC fought for liberal causes for more than a decade contributing to the Democratic Party taking majority control in the 1986 U S Senate elections 145 and in 1992 funding Bill Clinton s presidential election 146 as well as helping to usher in the Year of the Woman by electing more women senators 147 In 1995 Streisand spoke at Harvard s John F Kennedy School of Government about the role of the artist as citizen in support of arts programs and funding 148 149 Streisand is a supporter of LGBT rights and backed the No on 8 campaign in an unsuccessful attempt to defeat California Proposition 8 of 2008 150 In 2012 Streisand stated The new laws requiring U S citizens to produce photo IDs at the poll are designed to deprive elderly and minority citizens of the precious right to cast their vote These regressive laws are themselves the most dangerous voter fraud threatening American democracy 151 Streisand continued her voter rights advocacy in 2020 tweeting a link to VoteRiders a nonprofit that assists citizens with obtaining voter ID 152 In June 2013 she helped celebrate the 90th birthday of Shimon Peres held at Jerusalem s international convention center 153 She also performed at two other concerts in Tel Aviv that same week part of her first concert tour of Israel 154 In January 2017 she participated in 2017 Women s March in Los Angeles Introduced by Rufus Wainwright Streisand appeared on stage and made a speech 155 In an October 2018 interview with Emma Brockes of The Guardian Streisand discussed the theme of her new album Walls the danger she believed President Donald Trump posed towards the United States She said This is a dangerous time in this nation this republic a man who is corrupt and indecent and is assaulting our institutions It s really really frightening And I just pray that people who are compassionate and respect the truth will come out and vote I m saying more than just vote Vote for Democrats 156 Philanthropy Streisand with Arnon Milchan during the opening of the Streisand building in the Hebrew University 1984 In 1984 Streisand donated the Emanuel Streisand Building for Jewish Studies to the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in the Mount Scopus campus in memory of her father an educator and scholar who died when she was young 157 158 159 Streisand has personally raised 25 million 160 for organizations through her live performances The Streisand Foundation 161 established in 1986 has contributed over 16 million through nearly 1 000 grants to national organizations working on preservation of the environment voter education the protection of civil liberties and civil rights women s issues 162 and nuclear disarmament 163 In 2006 Streisand donated 1 million to the William J Clinton Foundation in support of former President Bill Clinton s climate change initiative 164 In 2009 Streisand gifted 5 million to endow the Barbra Streisand Women s Cardiovascular Research and Education Program at Cedars Sinai Medical Center s Women s Heart Center 165 In September that year Parade magazine included Streisand on its Giving Back Fund s second annual Giving Back 30 survey a ranking of the celebrities who have made the largest donations to charity in 2007 according to public records 166 as the third most generous celebrity The Giving Back Fund claimed Streisand donated 11 million which The Streisand Foundation distributed In 2012 she raised 22 million to support her women s cardiovascular center bringing her own personal contribution to 10 million The program was officially named the Barbra Streisand Women s Heart Center 167 At Julien s Auctions in October 2009 Streisand a longtime collector of art and furniture sold 526 items with all the proceeds going to her foundation Items included a costume from Funny Lady and a vintage dental cabinet purchased by the performer at 18 years old The sale s most valuable lot was a painting by Kees van Dongen 168 In December 2011 she appeared at a fundraising gala for Israel Defense Forces charities 169 In June 2020 she gifted George Floyd s daughter Gianna Floyd Disney shares 170 LegacyStreisand is regarded as the Queen of the Divas by various media outlets 171 The New York Times called her among the three of Americas Most Beloved Divas alongside Dolly Parton and Patti Labelle 172 Vulture honored her enduring legacy saying her works influence extends to Celine Dion the 1980s output of Lionel Richie and Luther Vandross and the more maudlin ballads of Mariah Carey Adele and Whitney Houston 173 Forbes hailed Streisand as the reigning Queen of the Charts for her unmistakable longevity on the Billboard charts 174 Los Angeles Times also hailed her as the most influential female vocalist and the most revolutionary of performers for being responsible for changing the rules for female performers to come 175 CNN listed her as one of the most romantic singers of the 20th century 176 Honors Streisand was presented Distinguished Merit Award by Mademoiselle in 1964 and selected as Miss Ziegfeld in 1965 In 1968 she received the Israel Freedom Medal the highest civilian award of Israel and she was awarded Pied Piper Award by ASCAP and Prix De L Academie Charles Cros in 1969 Crystal Apple by her hometown City of New York Woman of Achievement in the Arts by Anti Defamation League in 1978 In 1984 Streisand was awarded the Women in Film Crystal Award for outstanding women who through their endurance and the excellence of their work have helped to expand the role of women within the entertainment industry 177 She received the Woman of Courage Award by the National Organization for Women NOW the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres 178 and Scopus Award by American Friends of The Hebrew University She received Breakthrough Awards for making films that portray women with serious complexity at the Women Men and Media symposium in 1991 179 In 1992 she was given the Commitment to Life Award by AIDS Project Los Angeles APLA and the Bill of Rights Award by the American Civil Liberties Union of Southern California the Dorothy Arzner Special Recognition by Women in Film and the Golden Plate by the Academy of Achievement She was honored with the Harry Chapin Humanitarian Award from the ASCAP in 1994 and the Peabody Award in 1995 the same year she was accorded an Honorary Doctorate in Arts and Humanities by Brandeis University 178 She was also awarded Filmmaker of the Year Award for lifetime achievement in filmmaking by ShowEast and Peabody Award in 1996 Christopher Award in 1998 In 2000 President Bill Clinton presented Streisand with the National Medal of Arts the highest honor specifically given for achievement in the arts 180 and Library of Congress Living Legend she also received the highest honor for a career in film AFI Life Achievement Award from American Film Institute and Liberty and Justice Award from Rainbow PUSH Coalition Gracie Allen Award First Annual Jewish Image Awards in 2001 and Humanitarian Award for her years of leadership vision and activism in the fight for civil liberties including religion race gender equality and freedom of speech as well as all aspects of gay rights from Human Rights Campaign in 2004 In 2007 French President Nicolas Sarkozy presented Streisand with Legion of Honour the highest decoration in France and President George W Bush presented her Kennedy Center Honors the highest recognition of cultural achievement In 2011 she was given Board of Governors Humanitarian Award for her efforts on behalf of women s heart health and her many other philanthropic activities by Cedars Sinai Heart Institute She received the L Oreal Paris Legend Award in 18th Elle Magazine Women in Hollywood In 2012 she received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Women Film Critics Circle She was accorded an Honorary Doctorate of Philosophy by the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 2013 In that year she was also recipient of the Charlie Chaplin Award for Lifetime Achievement by the Film Society of Lincoln Center as the only female artist to direct write produce and star in the same major studio film Yentl 181 along with a Lifetime Achievement Glamour Awards 182 In 2014 Streisand was on one of eight different New York Magazine covers celebrating the magazine s 100 Years 100 Songs 100 Nights A Century of Pop Music in New York She also received the American Society of Cinematographers ASC Board of Governors Award citation needed the Sherry Lansing Leadership Award at The Hollywood Reporter s annual Women in Entertainment Breakfast 183 and came first in the 1010 Wins Iconic Celebrity Poll by CBS in 2015 178 In November 2015 President Barack Obama announced that Streisand would receive the Presidential Medal of Freedom the highest civilian award of the United States 184 Streisand was inducted into and Hollywood Walk of Fame in 1976 Goldmine Hall of Fame in 2002 185 Long Island Music Hall of Fame in 2007 186 the Hit Parade Hall of Fame in 2009 187 National Museum of American Jewish History and California Hall of Fame in 2010 178 In 1970 she received a Special Tony Award named Star of the Decade and was selected Star of the Decade by the National Association of Theatre Owners NATO in 1980 Star of Decade by NATO ShowWest and President s Award by NARM in 1988 That year she was also named as All Time Favorite Musical Performer by People s Choice Awards In 1986 Life named her as one of Five Hollywood s Most Powerful Women 188 In 1998 Harris Poll reported that she is the Most Popular Singer Among Adult Americans of All Ages She was also featured on VH1 s 100 Greatest Women of Rock N Roll 189 Top 100 Singers of all time by Mojo magazine 190 named the century s best female singer in a Reuters Zogby poll and Top Female Artist of the Century by Recording Industry Association of America in 1999 191 192 In 2006 Streisand was one of honorees at Oprah Winfrey s white tie Legends Ball 193 In 2015 The Daily Telegraph ranked Streisand as one of the 10 top female singer songwriters of all time 194 A amp E s Biography magazine ranked Streisand as one of their favorite leading actress of all time 195 she was also featured on the Voices of the Century list by BBC 196 the 100 Greatest Movie Stars of Time list compiled by People 197 VH1 s list of the 200 Greatest Pop Culture Icons of All Time 198 the 100 Greatest Entertainers of All Time ranked at 13 and the Greatest Movie Star of all time list by Entertainment Weekly 189 The 50 Greatest Actresses of All Tim by AMC 199 and Billboard Hot 100 All Time Top Artists 200 Billboard also ranked Streisand as the top female Jewish musician of all time 201 As a gay icon Streisand was named by The Advocate as one of the 25 Coolest Women and the 9 Coolest Women Appealing to Both Lesbians and Gay Men 202 and was also placed among the 12 Greatest Female Gay Icons of All Time by Out magazine 203 She was recognized as one of the top gay icons of the past three decades by Gay Times 204 During the first decade of the 21st century the American Film Institute celebrated 100 years of the greatest films in American cinema Four of Streisand s songs were represented on AFI s 100 Years 100 Songs which highlighted America s Greatest Music in the Movies The Way We Were at 8 Evergreen Love Theme From A Star Is Born at 16 People at 13 and Don t Rain on My Parade at 46 Many of her films were represented on AFI s 100 Years series AFI s 100 Years 100 Laughs highlighting the films and film artists that have made audiences laugh throughout the century ranked What s Up Doc at 61 AFI s 100 Years 100 Passions highlighted the top 100 greatest love stories in American cinema and placed The Way We Were at 8 Funny Girl at 41 and What s Up Doc at 68 AFI s Greatest Movie Musicals highlighted the 25 greatest American movie musicals ranking Funny Girl at 16 citation needed In December 2016 the film Funny Girl was marked for preservation by the Library of Congress in the National Film Registry 205 In March 2017 the song People was selected for preservation in the National Recording Registry Streisand said she was humbled to have the song honored as part of the flow of our nation s culture 206 Professional memberships As one of the most acclaimed actresses singers directors writers composers producers designers photographers and activists in every medium that she s worked in Streisand is the only artist who is concurrently a member of the American Society of Composers Authors and Publishers Screen Actors Guild American Federation of Television and Radio Artists Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences and Actors Equity Association as well as the honorary chairwoman of the board of directors of Hadassah s International Research Institute on Women 207 Streisand effect Main article Streisand effect In a 2003 lawsuit Streisand claimed that a website illustrating coastal erosion invaded her privacy because one of its 12 000 images happened to show her Malibu California home Streisand wanted the photo removed from the site The suit was dismissed and the resultant publicity prompted hundreds of thousands of people to download the photo which had been accessed only four times prior to Streisand initiating legal action 208 209 The term Streisand effect was coined to refer to an attempt to censor information which unintentionally publicizes that information 210 Awards and nominationsMain article List of awards and nominations received by Barbra Streisand Streisand has been nominated 43 times for a Grammy Award winning eight In addition she has received two special non competitive awards the 1992 Grammy Legend Award and the 1994 Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award She has also been inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame four times In 2011 she was honored as MusiCares Person of the Year by the Grammy Foundation for her artistic achievement in the music industry AppearancesFilmography Year Title Role Notes1968 Funny Girl Fanny Brice1969 Hello Dolly Dolly Levi1970 On a Clear Day You Can See Forever Daisy Gamble Melinda TentreesThe Owl and the Pussycat Doris Wilgus Wadsworth Wellington Waverly1972 What s Up Doc Judy MaxwellUp the Sandbox Margaret Reynolds1973 The Way We Were Katie Morosky1974 For Pete s Sake Henrietta Henry Robbins1975 Funny Lady Fanny Brice1976 A Star Is Born Esther Hoffman Howard1979 The Main Event Hillary Kramer1981 All Night Long Cheryl Gibbons1983 Yentl Yentl Mendel Anshel Mendel Also director producer and co writer1987 Nuts Claudia Faith Draper1991 The Prince of Tides Dr Susan Lowenstein Also director and producer1996 The Mirror Has Two Faces Rose Morgan Also director and producer2004 Meet the Fockers Rozalin Roz Focker2010 Little Fockers Rozalin Roz Focker2012 The Guilt Trip Joyce BrewsterBroadway performances Year Title Notes1961 1963 I Can Get It for You Wholesale Nominated Tony Award for Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Musical1964 1965 Funny Girl Nominated Tony Award for Best Leading Actress in a MusicalWest End performances Year Title Notes1966 Funny Girl April 13 1966 July 16 1966 at the Prince of Wales Theatre London Television specials Year Title Notes1965 My Name Is Barbra Aired on CBS April 28 19651966 Color Me Barbra Aired on CBS March 30 19661967 The Belle of 14th Street Aired on CBS October 11 19671968 A Happening in Central Park Recorded June 17 1967 Aired Sept 15 1968 to coincide with release of Funny Girl1973 Barbra Streisand And Other Musical Instruments Aired on CBS November 2 19731975 Funny Girl to Funny Lady Aired on ABC1976 Barbra With One More Look at You1978 Getting in Shape for The Main Event1983 A Film Is Born The Making of Yentl 1986 Putting it Together The Making of The Broadway Album1986 One Voice1994 Barbra Streisand The Concert Also producer and director2001 Barbra Streisand Timeless Aired on FOX February 14 2001 1 hour edited version 2009 Streisand Live in Concert Aired on CBS April 25 2009 211 Filmed in Florida in 2006 2011 Barbra Streisand One Night Only at The Village Vanguard Aired on PBS premiered on August 6 20112013 Barbra Streisand Back to Brooklyn Aired on PBS premiered on November 29 20132017 The Music The Mem ries The Magic Aired on Netflix premiered November 22 2017ToursYear Title Continents Box office proceeds Total audience1966 An Evening with Barbra Streisand Tour North America 480 000 67 5001993 1994 Barbra Streisand in Concert North America and Europe 50 million 400 0001999 2000 Timeless North America and Australia 70 million 200 0002006 2007 Streisand North America and Europe 119 5 million 425 0002012 2013 Barbra Live North America and Europe 66 million 254 9582016 2017 Barbra The Music The Mem ries The Magic North America 53 million 203 423DiscographyMain article Barbra Streisand discography The Barbra Streisand Album 1963 The Second Barbra Streisand Album 1963 The Third Album 1964 People 1964 My Name Is Barbra 1965 My Name Is Barbra Two 1965 Color Me Barbra 1966 Je m appelle Barbra 1966 Simply Streisand 1967 A Christmas Album 1967 What About Today 1969 Stoney End 1971 Barbra Joan Streisand 1971 Barbra Streisand and Other Musical Instruments 1973 The Way We Were 1974 ButterFly 1974 Lazy Afternoon 1975 Classical Barbra 1976 Superman 1977 Songbird 1978 Wet 1979 Guilty 1980 Emotion 1984 The Broadway Album 1985 Till I Loved You 1988 Back to Broadway 1993 Higher Ground 1997 A Love Like Ours 1999 Christmas Memories 2001 The Movie Album 2003 Guilty Pleasures 2005 Love Is the Answer 2009 What Matters Most 2011 Partners 2014 Encore Movie Partners Sing Broadway 2016 Walls 2018 AutobiographyStreisand has stated she is writing her autobiography but has stopped and started at various points 212 In May 2015 Viking Press announced it had bought Streisand s memoirs which will cover her entire life and career and would publish it in 2017 213 As of 2022 the book remains unpublished 214 Explanatory notes Rossi gives an example of how Streisand s songs are infused with meaning such as in the film A Star Is Born A clip of her singing Evergreen with co star Kris Kristofferson shows him horsing around with her as she sang and the look of pure seduction she gave him in return is seen in her eyes and heard in her voice When Barbra s singing she s singing just for you 35 109 References a b c d e f Savage Mark August 4 2021 Barbra 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