Barbra Streisand - Award-Winning “Actress Who Sings” 1942-

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There is a part of anybody who is worth their salt that is very insecure, a part that is lonely and sad. As emotional human beings, we have secrets and mysteries and strange feelings, and that’s what comes out in [one's] work.
—BARBRA STREISAND

The Emmy Awards were postponed twice in 2001 because of the the terrorist attacks on September 11. When they were finally presented on November 4, Barbra Streisand was announced as the winner of the Emmy for Outstanding Individual Performance in a Variety or Music Program (for her show Timeless}. But the multitalented entertainer did not go onstage to accept the award. Most watchers assumed she was not at the ceremony.
Toward the end of the program, soft music began playing while cameras focused on a dimly lit stage. A backdrop listed the names of those who perished in the September 11 attacks. Then a singer in silhouette appeared. “Whenyou walk through a storm, hold your head up high I And don’t be afraid of the dark” sang the unmistakable voice. By the time Streisand turned to face the audience, viewers were overwhelmed with emotion. The award-winning entertainer, who once called herself an “actress who sings,” was born Barbara Joan Streisand on April 24, 1942, in Brooklyn, New York. Barbara’s father died when she was only fifteen months old, and her mother, Diana, struggled to make a living. She left Barbara and her older brother, Sheldon, with her parents while she worked.
Her mother married Louis Kind in 1950, and the family moved to Flatbush, New York. Barbara and her stepfather did not get along, and she escaped home life at the Saturday afternoon movies. Watching the glamour and opulence of Hollywood movies, Barbara fantasized about becoming a screen star herself.
Barbara was put off by the amateurish plays of her high school, but she fell in love with the theater after seeing The Diary of Anne Frank on Broadway. Before long, she landed odd jobs in small New York theaters, working as a stagehand and as a summer stock member. She graduated early and with honors from her Flatbush high school and immediately moved to Manhattan, where she began singing as a means to break into theater. When she signed up for a talent contest at a club called the Lion in I960, she changed the spelling of her name to Barbra. She won die contest, landed jobs at other clubs, and developed a strong following at celebrity hangouts such as the Bon Soir and the Bltie Angel.
By 1962 Streisand had been spotted by a talent scout and won a recording contract with Columbia Records. She also debuted on Broadway in / Can Get It for You Wholesale. Streisand earned rave reviews for her minor role—and won the New York Drama Critics’ Circle Award and a Tony nomination. In 1963 she debuted on TV on the Ed Sullivan Show and launched a successful road tour. Streisand married fellow actor Elliott Gould on March 21, 1963; they had one child, Jason, born in 1966, also a film actor. (The couple divorced in 1971.)
In 1963 Streisand landed the role of Fanny Brice in Broadway’s Funny Girl. When the show closed in 1964, she was a star. Her singing career was skyrocketing: she won two Grammys for The Barbra Streisand Album and was nominated tor an Emmy and aTony. During one week in the fall of 1964, five of her songs appeared in the Top 100 in Cashhox magazine.
In 1965 Streisand won five Emmys for her one-woman television special My Name Is Barbra. The singer was particularly pleased with the show because she had negotiated for complete creative control. After her son was born, Streisand appeared in the film version of Funny Girl, earning both her first Golden Globe and Academy Award {1969) in a tie with screen legend Katharine Hepburn. The National Association of Theatre Owners named her Star of the Year, and in 1970, just eight years into the business, she received the Star of the Decade Tony Award.
Streisand nexr appeared in Hello Dolly (1969), and On a Clear Day You Can See Forever and The Owl and the Pussycat (both 1970) before forming her own production company, Barwood Films. She starred in What’s Up, Doc? then in the first Barwood project, Up the Sandbox (1972). Although Sandbox was not a commercial success, it received critical praise.
Teaming with heartthrob Robert Redford in The Way We Were (1973) brought Streisand a second Oscar nomination, and the title song (which she recorded) became a number-one hit. For A Star Is Born (1976), Streisand was executive producer and cowrote the film’s theme song, “Evergreen.” Star received five Academy Award nominations and made Streisand the first female composer to win an Oscar.
Although she continued to record solo albums, Streisand performed two duets—”You Don’t Bring Me Flowers” (1978) with Neil Diamond, and “Guilty” (1980) with Barry Gibb, which captured Grammys for both singers. She fulfilled a longtime goal when she brought Yentl, the story of a girl passing as a Yeshiva boy in order to get an education, to the big screen in 1983- It was the first time a feature was produced, cowritten, and directed_by a female who was also its star. Yentl won Best Picture and Best Director Golden Globes and five Oscar nominations. Tn 1986 Streisand hosted a fund-raising concert, One Voice, for Democratic senatorial candidates. That year she also released The Broadway Album and earned an eighth Grammy. The Prince of Tides (1991), in which Streisand starred and also produced and directed, received overwhelming acclaim; its commercial success validated Streisand as a bona fide filmmaker. Though she did not receive an Oscar, she was nominated for the Directors Guild prize.
In 1992 Streisand was honored with a “Living Legend” Grammy Award. She actively campaigned for Bill Clinton and the Democrats in 1992. Two years later she delighted fans by returning to the stage after twenty-seven years. Her concert tour thrilled crowds in Los Angeles, San Francisco, New York, Washington, D.C., and London, and broke box-office records. The singer donated more than $10.25 million in profits to charities. Barbra: The Concert, which ran on HBO television, won two Emmys and a Peabody Award, and Streisand received a Lifetime Achievement Grammy.
The Mirror Has Two Faces (1996) marked Streisand’s third triple effort as star, producer, and directot. The film received two Oscar nominations. On July 1, 1998, Barbra married actor James Brolin at her Malibu home. Inspired by her new romance, she recorded a series of love songs for A Love Like Ours (1999) and returned to the stage in 1999—for what she said was the last time—for net Timeless concett tour.
In a career that spans almost half a century Streisand has forged a path of innovative music, film, and theater projects. She remains the top-selling female vocalist, with a number-one album in each of the last font decades. The recipient of countless honors, including the National Endowment for the Arts’s National Medal of Arts, Streisand believes she has still more to give. Reflecting on one of her lifetime achievement awards, Streisand said, “I’d rather think of myself as a work in progress.”
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