American singer, actor, and director Barbara Joan “Barbra” Streisand was born on April 24, 1942.
She has had a successful career spanning more than six decades and is one of the few performers to have received Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, and Tony awards (EGOT).
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What is considered Barbra Streisand’s best song?
Early in the 1960s, Streisand started her career by giving performances in Broadway theatres and nightclubs.
The Barbra Streisand Album, which won the Grammy Award for Album of the Year in 1963, was her debut album. It followed her appearances as a guest on various television shows. She then signed to Columbia Records, insisting that she maintain complete artistic control while accepting less money in exchange. Over the course of her music career, Streisand has had 11 albums that have debuted at number one on the US Billboard 200 list, a record for a woman.
These albums include People (1964), The Way We Were (1974), Guilty (1980), and The Broadway Album (1985). Additionally, she had five singles that reached number one on the US Billboard Hot 100, including “The Way We Were,” “Evergreen,” “You Don’t Bring Me, Flowers,” and “No More Tears (Enough Is Enough)”, and “Woman in Love”.
