Barbra Streisand

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Born:
April 24, 1942, she's 70 and American.
Birthname:
Barbra Joan Streisand.
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An Artist with 83 releases, and credited 7 times on others' music. 14 collaborations and 2 musical relatives.

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Barbra Streisand is an American singer and actress born in 1942 whose phenomenal success as a recording artist is reflected in US sales of over 71 million albums and a full-to-bursting awards shelf.

Streisand became a nightclub singer in her teens, running an acting career in parallel. In the same year that she signed her first recording contract, she also made a first appearance on Broadway. Her debut album The Barbra Streisand Album (1963) was an immediate success, winning two Grammys. This success was a precursor to that of the 60+ albums which followed, many of which have achieved multi-platinum certification. She has distinguished herself by having at least one No.1 album during each of the last four decades. Her most recent studio release was 2005's Guilty Pleasures (Guilty Too in the UK), which was a reprise of her successful 1980 album Guilty; both were collaborations with the Bee Gees' Barry Gibb.

In recent years her tours have been newsworthy in their own right, if only for the huge price of their tickets and the enormous revenue generated from them. Although she elected to retire from touring in 2000, she relented in 2006, and in 2007 she made her way to Europe to tour for the first time in 13 years.

Her success as an actress compliments, but does not eclipse, her success as a singer. Funny Girl, a reprise of her Broadway role, was followed by a succession of films including A Star Is Born in 1976, and Yentl in 1983. Recently her big-screen work has been reduced, but she did return to acting for a role in 2004's Meet the Fockers. As with her singing career she has won many awards throughout her acting career, including two Oscars and nine Golden Globes.

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Adult Contemporary, Female Vocalist, Traditional Pop, American Songbook, American Standards,
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Discography

90 releases – 83 under her own name and 7 credits on others' music Edit
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Barbra Streisand

Oct, 8 2009

If younger chart-watchers were expecting Mariah Carey or pop-punks Paramore to clinch No.1 this week with either of their new albums, they were under-estimating the continuing appeal of Barbra Streisand. Streisand's new album of jazz standards, Love Is The Answer, just beat Paramore's Brand New Eyes to the top spot, selling 180,000 to Paramore's 175,000. Streisand promoted her new release on QVC and on Oprah, suggesting that television still has a lot of power when it comes to driving record sales. The success means Barbra Streisand is now the only artist to have had a U.S. No.1 album in five different decades: her first chart-topper was People in 1964. The news wasn't so good for Mariah, whose Memoirs of an Imperfect Angel hit No.3 with 168,000 sales; quite a drop from the 463,000 she sold in E=MC²'s first week just 18 months ago. That album was boosted by the success of first single "Touch My Body," which was No.1 on the Hot 100 for two weeks, whereas Memoirs' first single "Obsessed" has so far peaked at No.7 on the same chart.

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  • Barbra Streisand has had Tinnitus since she was a little girl. In an interview with Barbara Walters (1985) Streisand said she longs for silence. According to the American Tinnitus Association, “Tinnitus is the perception of ringing, hissing, or other sounds in the ears or head when no external sound is present. For some people, tinnitus is just a nuisance. For others, it is a life-altering condition. In the United States, an estimated 12 million people have tinnitus to a distressing degree.”
  • Streisand's works have been nominated for over 56 Grammy Awards; she won 8 of these, including two special awards. She has been inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame three times. In 2011 she will be honored as MusiCares Person of the Year.
  • Streisand shares a birthday with Shirley MacLaine, and they celebrate together every year.

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