Biography: American singer-songwriter, actress, film producer and director Barbra Streisand has sold over 145 million albums worldwide. She is one of the few people to have won an Oscar, Tony, Emmy and a Grammy award.
Streisand began her career as a night club singer before becoming a star on Broadway. She released her first studio album "The Barbra Streisand Album" in 1963 and it went on to win two Grammys, including Best Album.
Streisand won her first of five Emmy Awards for her television special "My Name is Barbra" in 1964. For her debut film role asFanny Brice in the 1968 film "Funny Girl", which she had played on Broadway, she won the Oscar for Best Actress. This win was the only tie for best actress in Academy Awards history -Katharine Hepburn also won.
Other successful films followed including in "The Way We Were" (1973) oppositeRobert Redford and "A Star is Born" (1976) withKris Kristofferson.
Streisand drew on her Jewish heritage as the creative force behind "Yentl" (1983) as co-writer, director, producer and star. She won a Golden Globe for Best Director for the film, the first woman to do so.
Streisand returned to live shows in the 1990s breaking box office records around the world.
Born:April 24,1942 Birthplace: Brooklyn, New York, USA
1961-10-21 Barbra Streisand opens Off-Broadway musical-comedy revue "Another Evening With Harry Stoones"
1962-03-22 Musical "I Can Get It For You Wholesale" starring Barbra Streisand in her Broadway debut, opens at Shubert Theater, NYC; runs for 300 performances
1962-05-29 Barbra Streisand appears on "The Garry Moore Show"
1962-10-01 American singer Barbra Streisand signs her first recording contract with Columbia
1962-11-07 Columbia Records completes a three-night live recording of Barbra Streisand at the Bon Soir nightclub in Greenwich Village, NYC, for her debut album; technical issues force them to shelve the release and bring her to a studio to record
1963-05-24 Barbra Streisand performs "Happy Days Are Here Again" at White House Press Correspondents Dinner, and meets US PresidentJohn F. Kennedy
1982-01-01 American singer Barbra Streisand and hairdresser/film producer Jon Peters' romantic relationship ends
1983-11-17 Film "Yentl" premieres, based on a play and story by Isaac Bashevis Singer, produced, directed, and starring Barbra Streisand with co-starMandy Patinkin
1985-08-07 Barbra Streisand records "The Broadway Album"
1987-12-11 Martin Ritt's dramatic film "Nuts", starring Barbra Streisand and Richard Dreyfus premieres
1988-04-18 Barbra Streisand records "Warm All Over"
1988-04-21 Barbra Streisand records "You'll Never Know"
1992-02-22 Barbra Streisand surprises cast members in a cameo appearance at the end of a "Coffee Talk" sketch on "Saturday Night Live"
1993-12-31 Barbra Streisand performs her 1st public concert in 20 years before a sell-out crowd of over 25,000 at MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada
1994-05-10 Barbra Streisand's begins 1st concert tour in 30 years, at the Capitol Centre in Landover, Maryland (after "warm-up" shows in Las Vegas and London)
2014-09-16 Barbra Streisand releases the album "Partners," featuring duets with other artists, and when it reaches No. 1, Streisand becomes the only recording artist with a top album in six decades
2018-02-27 Barbra Streisand reveals she has cloned her dog twice
2022-11-04 Columbia Records releases album "Barbra Streisand - Live At The Bon Soir", recorded in an NYC nightclub in November 1962
Personal Life
1963-09-13 American singer and actress Barbra Streisand (21) weds American actorElliott Gould (24) in Carson City, Nevada; divorce in 1971
1998-07-01 Eight-time Grammy Award-winning singer Barbra Streisand (57) weds actor James Brolin (58) in Malibu, California
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