EARLY LIFE
She was born Barbara Joan Streisand to Jewish parents on April 24, 1942 in Brooklyn, New York.
Barbara changed her name to Barbra when she was 18-years-old as she wanted to be unique, but didn't want to change her name completely.
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| 1966 promotional photo of Barbra Streisand |
Her mother Diana (born Ida Rosen) had been a soprano singer as a teenager and considered a career in music, but later became a school secretary.
Her father was a high school teacher, who died of a cerebral hemorrhage when Barbra was just fifteen months old.
Diana Streisand worked as a low-paid bookkeeper while bringing up Barbara and her older brother. They struggled financially until Barbra's mom remarried in 1949.
Barbra attended Bais Yakov School in Brooklyn, New York as a child.
While a student at Brooklyn's Erasmus Hall High School, Barbra had an unrequited crush on a schoolmate who also would achieve international renown - chess genius Bobby Fischer.
At Erasmus Hall High School. she sang in the school choir alongside Neil Diamond. The pair teamed up again in 1978 for the smash hit "You Don't Bring Me Flowers".
CAREER
Barbra Streisand made her Broadway debut aged 19 on March 22, 1962 in the musical I Can Get It For You Wholesale. Streisand played the role of Miss Marmelstein in the production, which ran for 300 performances at the Sam S. Shubert Theatre in New York City. Her performance in the musical was widely praised, and she won the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role in a Musical for her work.
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| Barbra Streisand, c. 1962. |
In 1970 Barbra Streisand became the first person ever to receive a Grammy, an Emmy, an Academy Award, and a Tony. She won her first Grammy in 1963, her first Emmy in 1965, her first Oscar in 1968, and her one Tony, an honorary "Star of the Decade" Tony Award, in 1970.
Streisand is still the only artist ever to receive an Oscar, Tony, Emmy and Grammy plus record a number one single and album.
With the release of Yentl in 1983, Streisand became the first woman to write, produce, direct, and star in a major studio movie.
On New Year's Eve 1993, Barbra Streisand embarked on her first ever full tour. The tour consisted of 26 shows and ended in Anaheim, California in July 1994. Although she had sung concerts this was her first tour after a 28 year bout of stage fright.
Barbra: The Concert was broadcast on HBO August 21, 1994 and received a television audience of 11.2 million viewers, becoming the highest-rated musical event in HBO’s history.
When in 1999 the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) announced the biggest-selling artists of the century in the United States, it was revealed that Barbra Streisand was the best-selling female solo act of the 20th century.
When Barbra Streisand's 2014 long player Partners topped the Billboard 200, she created US chart history by becoming the first artist to score number one albums in every decade from the 1960s to the 2010s.
Streisand has been married twice. Her first husband was actor Elliott Gould, to whom she was married from 1963 until 1971. They had one child, Jason Gould, who appeared as her on-screen son in The Prince of Tides.
Her second husband is actor James Brolin, whom she married on July 1, 1998
Both of Streisand's husbands, Elliott Gould and James Brolin, starred in Capricorn One (1977).
A photograph of Barbra Streisand's Malibu, California home was taken in 2003 by aerial photographer Kenneth Adelman for the California Coastal Records Project.
Streisand's attempts to suppress the photograph led to the unintended consequence of publicizing it much more widely; before the singing star filed her lawsuit, the image had been downloaded only six times, whereas in the month after the lawsuit afterwards more than 420,000 people visited the site. The term "Streisand effect" evolved from the controversy and has been used to describe subsequent cases of the phenomenon.
Barbra Streisand had her dead dog Sammie cloned twice and both pets now have different personalities than the original.
Leaked documents from a U.S. tour revealed that Streisand demanded 120 luxury towels and a sprinkling of rose petals in the toilet bowl at every show.
When Barbra Streisand's 2014 long player Partners topped the Billboard 200, she created US chart history by becoming the first artist to score number one albums in every decade from the 1960s to the 2010s.
PERSONAL LIFE
Streisand has been married twice. Her first husband was actor Elliott Gould, to whom she was married from 1963 until 1971. They had one child, Jason Gould, who appeared as her on-screen son in The Prince of Tides.
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| Streisand with husband Elliott Gould and son Jason (1967) |
Her second husband is actor James Brolin, whom she married on July 1, 1998
Both of Streisand's husbands, Elliott Gould and James Brolin, starred in Capricorn One (1977).
A photograph of Barbra Streisand's Malibu, California home was taken in 2003 by aerial photographer Kenneth Adelman for the California Coastal Records Project.
Streisand's attempts to suppress the photograph led to the unintended consequence of publicizing it much more widely; before the singing star filed her lawsuit, the image had been downloaded only six times, whereas in the month after the lawsuit afterwards more than 420,000 people visited the site. The term "Streisand effect" evolved from the controversy and has been used to describe subsequent cases of the phenomenon.
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| The image of Streisand's Malibu house By Copyright (C) 2002 Kenneth & Gabrielle Adelman |
Barbra Streisand had her dead dog Sammie cloned twice and both pets now have different personalities than the original.
Leaked documents from a U.S. tour revealed that Streisand demanded 120 luxury towels and a sprinkling of rose petals in the toilet bowl at every show.
She founded the Streisand Foundation in 1986 to support social and political causes.
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