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 140 million albums sold worldwide.She is the best-selling female artist on the Recording Industry Association of America Top Selling Artists list, the only female recording artist in the top ten, and the only artist outside of the rock and roll genre Along with Frank Sinatra, Cher, and Shirley Jones, she shares the distinction of being awarded an acting Oscar and also recording a number-one single on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 chart.
According to the RIAA, Streisand holds the record for the most top ten albums of any female recording artist - a total of 31 since 1963.Streisand has the widest span (46 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 only 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
* 1 Early life
* 2 Career
o 2.1 Singing
o 2.2 Acting
* 3 Personal life
o 3.1 Marriages and family
o 3.2 Name
o 3.3 Politics
o 3.4 Philanthropy
* 4 References in popular culture
o 4.1 On television
o 4.2 On film
o 4.3 In music
o 4.4 On stage
o 4.5 "Streisand Effect"
* 5 Awards
o 5.1 Music awards
o 5.2 Film awards
* 6 Appearances
o 6.1 Broadway performances
o 6.2 West End performances
o 6.3 Television specials
* 7 Tours and live performances
* 8 Discography
* 9 Filmography
* 10 References
* 11 Further reading
* 12 External links
Barbara Joan Streisand was born on April 24, 1942, in Brooklyn, New York, to a Jewish family, the daughter of Emmanuel and Diana (née Rosen) Streisand. She is the second of two children fathered by Emmanuel (the elder child is Sheldon), who was a respected high school teacher. Fifteen months after Streisand's birth, Emmanuel died of a cerebral hemorrhage and the family went into near-poverty She attended Erasmus Hall High School in Brooklyn and joined the Freshman Chorus and Choral Club.Diana Rosen Streisand remarried Louis Kind in 1949 and gave Streisand a half-sister, the singer Roslyn Kind (Kind "is 9 years younger" than Barbra
Barbara Streisand became a nightclub singer while in her teens. She wanted to be an actress and appeared in summer stock and in a number of Off-Off-Broadway productions, including Driftwood (1959), with then-unknown Joan Rivers. (In her autobiography, Rivers wrote that she played a lesbian with a crush on Streisand's character, but this was later denied by the play's author.) Driftwood ran for only six weeks When her boyfriend, Barry Dennen, helped her create a club act—first performed at The Lion, a popular gay nightclub in Manhattan's Greenwich Village in 1960she achieved success as a singer. While singing at The Lion for several weeks, she changed her name from Barbara to Barbra One early appearance outside of New York City was at Enrico Banducci’s hungry i nightclub in San Francisco[citation needed]. In 1961, Streisand appeared at the Town and Country nightclub in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, but her appearance was cut short; the club owner did not appreciate her singing style Streisand appeared at Baker's Keyboard Lounge in Detroit in 1961.
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