One of the greatest superstars of music, cinema, theater and human rights causes

1. Barbra
Streisand
Biography
&
Juke-Box
You Don't Bring Me Flowers
Woman in Love
Memory
The Way We Were
People
The Music of the Night
I Won’t Be the one to Let Go
Evergreen
Duet with Neil Diamond
Duet with Michael Crawford
Duet with Barry Manilow

2. Biography
Barbra Joan Streisand, born April 24, 1942, is an American singer-songwriter, actress,
writer, film producer, and director.
She has won 2 Academy Awards, 11 Golden Globes, 10 Grammy Awards, 5 Emmy
Awards including one Daytime Emmy, a Special Tony Award, an American Film Institute
award, a Kennedy Center Honors award, a Peabody Award.
She is one of the most commercially and critically successful entertainers in modern
entertainment history, with more than 71.5 million albums shipped in the United States
and 145 million records sold worldwide.
She is the best-selling female artist on the Recording Industry Association of America's
(RIAA) Top Selling Album Artists list, the only female recording artist in the top ten, and
the only artist outside of the rock and roll genre.

3. After beginning a successful recording career in the 1960s, by the end of the decade,
Streisand ventured into film starring in the critically acclaimed “Funny Girl” (1968) and
“Hello, Dolly!” (1969), the former for which she won the Academy Award and Golden Globe
Award for Best Actress.
Other notable films include, “The Way We Were” and “A Star Is Born” for which she
received her second Academy Award for composing the lyrics to the picture’s main song,
Evergreen.
Streisand established herself as one of the film industry’s most notable figures during the
80’s, by becoming the first woman to direct, produce, script and star in her own picture.
According to the RIAA, Streisand holds the record for the most top-ten albums of any
female recording artist, a total of 36 since 1963.
Streisand has the widest span (48 years) between first and latest top-ten albums of any
female recording artist. With her 2009 album, Love Is the Answer, she became one of the
rare artists to achieve number-one albums in five consecutive decades. According to the
RIAA, she has released 51 Gold albums, 30 Platinum albums, and 13 Multi-Platinum
albums in the United States.

4. Career Milestones
1960 - Achieved success as a singer at “The Lion”, a popular nightclub in Manhattan's
Greenwich Village
1960 - Stage acting debut, "The Insect Comedy"
1961 - First television appearance, "The Tonight Show" (NBC) with host Jack Paar
1961 - Made off-Broadway debut in the revue "Another Evening with Harry Stoones"
1962 - Made Broadway debut in "I Can Get It For You Wholesale“, as the secretary Miss
Marmelstein; received a Tony nomination.
1962 - Put under contract by Columbia Records in October
1963 - Released first solo album “The Barbra Streisand Album”
1964 - Breakthrough stage role, played Fanny Brice in "Funny Girl"; received second Tony
nomination.
1966 - Made London stage debut reprising her Broadway success in "Funny Girl"

5. 1968 - Made film debut in director William Wyler's adaptation of "Funny Girl“
1969 - Starred in the overblown film version of "Hello, Dolly!" directed by Gene Kelly
1972 - Delivered a fine comic turn in "What's Up, Doc?"; first screen teaming with Ryan
O'Neal
1972 - Formed Barwood Films; first Barwood-produced film, "Up the Sandbox"
1973 - Appeared opposite Robert Redford in "The Way We Were"; also sang the theme
song; earned a Best Actress Oscar nomination
1974 - Reprised role of Fanny Brice in the sequel "Funny Lady"
1976 - First film as executive producer, "A Star Is Born"; also starred and composed some
of the songs
1979 - Produced first film "The Main Event"; re-teamed on screen with Ryan O'Neal
1983 - Made feature directorial and screenwriting (co-writer) debut with “ Yentl "; also
produced and played the title role of a woman who poses as a boy to study the Talmud
1985 - Returned to theatrical roots with The Broadway Album

6. 1987 - Starred as an upper-class woman forced into prostitution and accused of
murdering one of her clients in "Nuts"; also served as producer and composer
1991 - Directed Oscar-nominated Best Picture "The Prince of Tides"; also starred and
served as a producer
1993 - Released second recording of theater music Back to Broadway
1994 - Headlined landmark multi-city concert tour; concerts were taped and aired first
on HBO and in a slightly revised form on CBS
1995 - Executive produced the Emmy winning TV movie "Serving in Silence: The
Margarethe Cammermeyer Story" (NBC).
1996 - Directed third film "The Mirror Has Two Faces"; also starred, produced, and
contributed to the score
1999 - Headlined a "farewell" concert tour with concerts in Las Vegas on 1999 New
Year's Eve and New Year's Day 2000; aired on Fox in 2001 as "Barbra Streisand
Timeless"

7. 2000 - Executive produced Showtime original movie "Frankie and Hazel"
2000 - Executive produced a series of PBS specials that aired under the umbrella title
"The Living Century"
2001 - Executive produced Showtime original movie "Varian's War"
2001 - Served as executive producer of Lifetime lesbian-themed movie "What Makes a
Family"
2003 - Received Grammy nomination for Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album for The Movie
Album
2004 - Teamed with Dustin Hoffman to play Ben Stiller's parents in "Meet the Fockers"
2010 - Reprised role of Ben Stiller's mother Roz Focker in "Little Fockers"
2012 - Co-starred with Seth Rogen as a mother-and-son duo driving cross-country in
"The Guilt Trip"; also executive produced
2012 - Compiled previously unreleased tracks into the album “Release Me”

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