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Streisand in 1965
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Born |
Barbara Joan Streisand April 24, 1942 Brooklyn, New York, U.S. |
Residence | Malibu, California, U.S. |
Education | Erasmus Hall High School |
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Spouse(s) |
Elliott Gould (m. 1963; div. 1971) James Brolin (m. 1998) |
Children | Jason Gould |
Relatives | Roslyn Kind (half-sister) |
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Instruments | Vocals |
Years active | 1960–present |
Labels | Columbia |
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Website | barbrastreisand |
Barbara Joan "Barbra" Streisand (/ˈstraɪsænd/; born April 24, 1942) is an American singer, songwriter, actress, and filmmaker. In a career spanning six decades, she has become an icon in multiple fields of entertainment and has been recognized with two Academy Awards, ten Grammy Awards including the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award and the Grammy Legend Award, five Emmy Awards including one Daytime Emmy, a Special Tony Award, an American Film Institute award, a Kennedy Center Honors prize, four Peabody Awards, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, and nine Golden Globes. She is among a small group of entertainers who have been honored with an Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, and Tony Award, and is one of only two artists who have also won a Peabody.
Streisand is one of the best-selling music artists of all time, with more than 68.5 million albums in the United States and with a total of 145 million records sold worldwide (the only female in the top ten, and the only artist outside of the rock 'n' roll genre), making her the best-selling female artist among the top-selling artists recognized by the Recording Industry Association of America.