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  1. Streisand, Barbra Streisand, Barbra Joan Streisandnoun

    United States singer and actress (born in 1942)

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  1. streisand

    Barbara Joan "Barbra" Streisand (; born April 24, 1942) is an American singer, actress and director. With a career spanning over six decades, she has achieved success in multiple fields of entertainment, and is among the few performers awarded an Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, and Tony (EGOT). Streisand began her career by performing in nightclubs and Broadway theaters in the early 1960s. Following her guest appearances on various television shows, she signed to Columbia Records, insisting that she retain full artistic control, and accepting lower pay in exchange, an arrangement that continued throughout her career, and released her debut The Barbra Streisand Album (1963), which won the Grammy Award for Album of the Year. Throughout her recording career, Streisand has topped the US Billboard 200 chart with 11 albums—a record for a woman—including People (1964), The Way We Were (1974), Guilty (1980), and The Broadway Album (1985). She also achieved five number-one singles on the US Billboard Hot 100—"The Way We Were", "Evergreen", "You Don't Bring Me Flowers", "No More Tears (Enough Is Enough)", and "Woman in Love". Following her established recording success in the 1960s, Streisand ventured into film by the end of that decade. She starred in the critically acclaimed Funny Girl (1968), for which she won the Academy Award for Best Actress. Additional fame followed with films including the extravagant musical Hello, Dolly! (1969), the screwball comedy What's Up, Doc? (1972), and the romantic drama The Way We Were (1973). Streisand won a second Academy Award for writing the love theme from A Star Is Born (1976), the first woman to be honored as a composer. With the release of Yentl (1983), Streisand became the first woman to write, produce, direct, and star in a major studio film. The film won an Oscar for Best Original Score and a Golden Globe for Best Motion Picture Musical. Streisand also received the Golden Globe Award for Best Director, becoming the first (and for 37 years, the only) woman to win that award. Streisand later directed The Prince of Tides (1991) and The Mirror Has Two Faces (1996). With sales exceeding 150 million records worldwide, Streisand is one of the best-selling recording artists of all time. According to the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), she is the second highest-certified female artist in the United States, with 68.5 million certified album units. Billboard ranked Streisand as the greatest female artist on the Billboard 200 chart and the top Adult Contemporary female artist of all time. Her accolades include two Academy Awards, 10 Grammy Awards including the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award and the Grammy Legend Award, five Emmy Awards, four Peabody Awards, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, and nine Golden Globes.

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  1. streisand

    Streisand generally refers to Barbara Streisand, an award-winning American singer, actress, and filmmaker. However, it can also refer to the "Streisand Effect" which is a social phenomenon where an attempt to hide, remove, or censor information has the unintended effect of publicizing the information more widely. The term was coined after an incident involving Barbara Streisand in which she tried to suppress photographs of her residence, unintentionally drawing further public attention to it.

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  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of Streisand in Chaldean Numerology is: 1

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of Streisand in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1

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  1. Brothers Johnson:

    I had access to all musicians and artists, from Barbra Streisand to Paul McCartney to Michael Jackson, it was like an open door. The Lord blessed me with that — I prayed to God and my prayer he answered. He said, 'OK, you got the whole world now.' Every time I'd get in the car to go somewhere, I'd hear me playing the bass ... I was all over the place. I released the funk on everybody.

  2. Jessica Chastain:

    I'm not interested in [ talking about Trump ] at all, what I'm interested in is pointing to actual real change. I want to focus on that'cause people can pooh-pooh Hollywood all they want — and there is a lot to pooh-pooh, sure — but Barbra Streisand and Kris Kristofferson also make culture.

  3. Tony Glover:

    You said Father of Night was written for a play, and Lay Lady Lay was done for Midnight Cowboy, actually it was written for Barbra Streisand.

  4. Ron Galella/Ron Galella:

    It was like that a lot: You had Madonna and Sean Penn walking in, Barbra Streisand and Don Johnson, Muhammad Ali would be there, Oprah sitting with Donald ringside, it was a special time. I'm sorry to see it go.

  5. Judith Viorst:

    But it's hard to be hip over thirty When everyone else is nineteen, When the last dance we learned was the Lindy, And the last we heard, girls who looked like Barbra Streisand Were trying to do something about it.

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