Barbra Streisand

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Barbra Streisand to Tour Europe for First Time in…

Mar 26, 2013

Singer Barbra Streisand is heading to Europe for her first tour of the…

Barbra Streisand to perform in London for first…

Mar 26, 2013

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Mar 25, 2013

Barbra Streisand will bring her spectacular stage show to the UK this summer…

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Mar 22, 2013

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City	Venue	Date		Tickets
London	O2 Arena - London	Sat	Jun 01 / 13	Find Tickets
London	O2 Arena - London	Mon	Jun 03 / 13	Find Tickets
Amsterdam	Ziggo Dome	Thu	Jun 06 / 13	Find Tickets
Paris	Palais Omnisports	Mon	Jun 10 / 13	Find Tickets
Cologne	Lanxess Arena	Wed	Jun 12 / 13	Find Tickets
Berlin	O2 World - Berlin	Sat	Jun 15 / 13	Find Tickets

Barbra Streisand Biography

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Barbra Joan Streisand (born Barbara Joan Streisand, April 24, 1942) is an American singer-songwriter, actress, writer, film producer, and director. She has won two Academy Awards, eight Grammy Awards, five Emmy Awards including one Daytime Emmy, a Special Tony Award, an American Film Institute award, a Kennedy Center Honors award, a Peabody Award, She is the best-selling female artist on the Recording Industry Association of America's (RIAA) Top Selling Album Artists list, the only female recording artist in the top ten, and the only artist outside of the rock and roll genre. After beginning a successful recording career in the 1960s, by the end of the decade, Streisand ventured into film starring in the critically acclaimed Funny Girl (1968) and Hello, Dolly! (1969), the former for which she won the Academy Award and Golden Globe Award for Best Actress. Other notable films include The Owl and the Pussycat, The Way We Were and A Star Is Born for which she received her second Academy Award for composing the lyrics to the picture’s main song, Evergreen. By the 1980s, Streisand established herself as one of the film industry’s most notable figures by becoming the first woman to direct, produce, script and star in her own picture. According to the RIAA, Streisand holds the record for the most top-ten albums of any female recording artist – a total of 32 since 1963. Streisand has the widest span (48 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 rare 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.

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