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. : 3 The family fell into near poverty, with her mother working as a low-paid bookkeeper. 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. 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.
Her father was a high school teacher at the same school, where they first met. Her mother had been a soprano in her youth and considered a career in music, but later became a school secretary. Streisand was born on April 24, 1942, in Brooklyn, New York City, to Diana Ida ( née Rosen 1908–2002) and Emanuel Streisand (1908–1943). Her accolades include two Academy Awards, 10 Grammy Awards including the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award and the Grammy Legend Award, five Emmy Awards, four Peabody Awards, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, and nine Golden Globes. Billboard ranked Streisand as the greatest solo artist on the Billboard 200 chart and the top Adult Contemporary female artist of all time. 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. With sales exceeding 150 million records worldwide, Streisand is one of the best-selling recording artists of all time. Streisand later directed The Prince of Tides (1991) and The Mirror Has Two Faces (1996). Streisand also received the Golden Globe Award for Best Director, becoming the first (and for 37 years, the only) woman to win that award. The film won an Oscar for Best Original Score and a Golden Globe for Best Motion Picture Musical. With the release of Yentl (1983), Streisand became the first woman to write, produce, direct, and star in a major studio film. 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. 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). She starred in the critically acclaimed Funny Girl (1968), for which she won the Academy Award for Best Actress. 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".įollowing her established recording success in the 1960s, Streisand ventured into film by the end of that decade. Throughout her recording career, Streisand has topped the US Billboard 200 chart with 11 albums-a record for a woman until 2023 -including People (1964), The Way We Were (1974), Guilty (1980), and The Broadway Album (1985).
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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, and released her debut The Barbra Streisand Album (1963), which won the Grammy Award for Album of the Year.
Streisand began her career by performing in nightclubs and Broadway theaters in the early 1960s. 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).
Barbara Joan " Barbra" Streisand ( / ˈ s t r aɪ s æ n d/ born April 24, 1942) is an American singer and actress.
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