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Barbra Streisand
Barbra Streisand (Barbra Streisand), born in Brooklyn , New York City , USA on April 24, 1942 , is an American female singer, actor, director, and producer.
In 1961, signed with Columbia Records . In 1963, he released his first music album of the same name " Barbra Streisand ". In 1969, she won the 41st Oscars Best Actress Award for her leading role in the movie " Funny Girl " . In 1995, he won the 37th Grammy Awards Lifetime Achievement Award
[1]
. In 2001, he won the Lifetime Achievement Award
[2] of the American Film Institute
. In the same year, she was certified as "The Best-selling Female Artist of the 20th Century" by the Recording Industry Association of America ( RIAA )
[1]
. In 2008, he won the 31st Kennedy Center Honors Lifetime Achievement Award
[3]
. In 2018, the music album " Walls "
[4] was released
.
Early Experience
Barbra Streisand was born in the Streisand family in Brooklyn , New York City, USA . In 1952, the ten-year-old Barbara wanted to be a performer and studied ballet for half a year. Later, she participated in a summer talent audition held in a restaurant in the Catskill Mountains of the United States . Her singing attracted the attention of hotel guests and was given the opportunity to perform at the wedding banquet.
In September 1955, Barbara left the orthodox Jewish parish school and entered Erasmus Hall College in Brooklyn
. She was enthusiastic about the school's choir club. In April 1956, her mother took her to Manhattan to watch the musical "Annie Frank's Diary", which gave her the ideal of becoming an actor. In 1959, he went to Manhattan to develop in the United States.
Performing Experience
At the end of 1961, he participated in the musical "I Can Get It for You Wholesale" written by Harold Romer and participated in the recording of the original soundtrack of the play. In addition, he also recorded an album for the musical "Pins and Needles" and won a recording contract with Columbia Music Label.
In February 1963, he released his first music album "Barbra Streisand". In the same year, he released his second music album "The Second Barbra Streisand Album".
In 1964, starring in the musical " funny girl " . In the same year, the music album "People" was released, becoming the first championship album.
In October 1966, the English and French bilingual album "Je m'appelle Barbra" was released. The album included the song "Ma Premiere Chanson" that Streisand tried to compose for the first time.
In 1968, she served as the heroine of the movie " Funny Girl " and won the Academy Award for Best Actress . On September 15th of the same year, "Barbra Streisand: A Happening In Central Park" was broadcast. This show was a live video of Streisand ’s concert in New York’s "Back Garden" on June 17, 1967. 150,000 viewers participated in this outdoor event. concert.
In 1971, the music album "Stoney End" was released. In 1974, he acted as the lead actor in the movie " The Way We Were " and sang the theme song of the film "The Way We Were". In 1976, the album "Classical Barbra" adapted from classical music was released. On December 17th of the same year, he acted as the star of the movie " A Star is Born " and sang the theme song "Evergreen"; in 1977, the song won the 49th Oscars Best Movie Theme Song Award. In 1985, the style music album "The Broadway Album" was released in collaboration with music producer David Fuster.
In 1977, he released the music album "Streisand Superman" in collaboration with Barry Gibb and won the third place in the rankings. In 1978, he released his second personal music selection album "Greatest Hits.Vol.2". The 1980 album "Guilty" was tailor-made for her by Bee Gees member Barry Gibb. Although there were only 9 songs, it occupied the top spot on the Billboard for 3 weeks. "What Kind of Fool" sang with Barry Gibb entered the Top 10. A more disco-style "Promises" also entered the Top 50. Global sales exceeded 20 million at that time, not only became Barbara's best-selling album in the 1980s and one of the best-selling albums of all albums, but also became the world's first 20 million female singer album.
In 1981, Barbara released a selected album "Memories/Love Songs". In 1983, " Yentl " broke the male-dominated situation in the American entertainment industry. Streisand became the first female artist to direct, perform, produce, and sing as a theme song. She won two Oscar nominations for best movie theme song. Streisand With this film, he won the first Golden Globe Award in his life . Reproduced for the first time in collaboration with David Fuster in 1985Fenghua's album "The Broadway Album" adds another championship album.
In 1992, the album "Back to Broadway" was released in the first week of airborne rankings. In 1994, Streisand againThe performance, the album recorded based on the performance also became the top ten on the charts, and soon became a platinum album. In 1994, he held a solo concert tour, which was held in Las Vegas, Washington, Southern California, Detroit, San Jose , London and other places
. In 1995, Streisand was awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award by the Grammy Award . In 1996, he re-directed and co-starred with Jeff Bridges in the movie " The Mirror Has Two Faces ". The theme song "I Finally Found Someone" due to Bryan Adams also had a TOP 8 performance.
In 1997, he sang " Tell Him " with Céline Dion and released the album "Higher Ground", reaching the top spot in the first week of release. On December 31, 1999, Streisand returned to the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Inc. luxury hotel in Las Vegas to hold a concert "Timeless".
From September 20th to 28th, 2000, in order to sponsor the presidential candidate Al Gore, Streisand performed two farewell concerts in Los Angeles' Temple Hall and New York's Madison Square Garden . The total number of the concerts was The raised $5 million has become the largest political donation since the founding of the Democratic Party.
In 2001, he won the Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Film Institute
. In the same year, it was certified as the "Best-selling Female Artist of the 20th Century" by the Recording Industry Association of America ( RIAA )
. At the end of 2001, the Christmas album "Christmas Memories" was released, and the sales exceeded one million copies in less than two months.
In early 2002, he released the best-selling album "The Essential Barbra Streisand", which ranked 15th on the American Pop Chart and jumped to the British Gold Chart. In 2003, the music album " Floating Light and Glimpse " was released . With the sales of 162,000 copies in the first week, it became the fifth place on the Billboard 200 chart. The songs in this album are all covers from movie episodes, including the movie " Modern Times " episode "Smile", " Breakfast at Tiffany's " episode " Moon River " and so on. In 2004, she starred in " Meet The Fockers " as the Jewish mother of a sex clinician.
In March 2006, the personal biography "Barbara: Such Her" was released in the United States
. On October 4th, the concert tour kicked off in Philadelphia, USA. There are 20 cities including New York, Los Angeles and Chicago . This "Live in Concert 2006" album ranked seventh on the Billboard 200 that week , and won the Billboard Top Music DVD champion.
In 2008, won the 31st Kennedy Center Honors Lifetime Achievement Award
. On September 29, 2009, the music album "Love Is The Answer" was released, which won the top of the U.S. charts and the British chart in the first week. In 2011, he won the 53rd Grammy Awards for Music Care of the Year, and the album "Love Is The Answer" was nominated for the Best Traditional Pop Singing Album Award
. On August 23, the studio album "What Matters Most" was released, which reached No. 4 on the US Billboard in the first week. On October 9, 2012, the collection "Release Me" was released.
On February 24, 2013, he served as a guest performer at the 85th Oscars Awards Ceremony
. On September 16, 2014, the 34th studio album " Partners " was released , which topped the US Billboard charts with a sales volume of 196,000 in the first week. On November 24, 2015, he was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Obama in Washington District of Columbia
.
On August 26, 2016, the music album "Encore: Movie Partners Sing Broadway" was
released; the first week of the album's release, it topped the British pop music charts
.
On November 2, 2018, the music album " Walls " was released
.
Personal Life
family
Barbra Streisand's father Emmanuel Streisand is Jewish
. He worked as a teacher and died when Barbra Streisand was 15 months old
. The mother is of Russian Jewish descent
.
Romance
In 1963, he married American actor Elliott Gould . In 1998, he married his second husband James Brolin
.
Extended Reading
