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She has had an astonishing ''thirty-three albums'' hit the Top Ten, ten of which went Number One, and is the only singer in history to have a Number One album in six consecutive decades, beginning with ''People'' in 1964 and, as of now, ending with ''Encore!'' in 2016. She defined the adult contemporary music genre during the 1960s and '70s and much of the '80s as well. She has won two [[UsefulNotes/AcademyAward Oscars]], ten [[UsefulNotes/GrammyAward Grammys]], four [[MediaNotes/EmmyAward Emmys]], an honorary [[UsefulNotes/TonyAwardWinners Tony]],[[note]]Which makes her one of the few people to have pulled off an "[[UsefulNotes/TheEGOTs EGOT]]" -- winning an Emmy, a Grammy, an Oscar and a Tony -- though the honorary status of her Tony means that her position in that club is debatable.[[/note]] and a Peabody. She was also the first woman to win a [[UsefulNotes/GoldenGlobeAward Golden Globe]] for Best Director, was a Kennedy Center Honors honoree and won AFI's Lifetime Achievement Award in 2001.

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She has had an astonishing ''thirty-three albums'' hit the Top Ten, ten of which went Number One, and is the only singer in history to have a Number One album in six consecutive decades, beginning with ''People'' in 1964 and, as of now, ending with ''Encore!'' in 2016. She defined the adult contemporary music genre during the 1960s and '70s and much of the '80s as well. She has won two [[UsefulNotes/AcademyAward [[MediaNotes/AcademyAward Oscars]], ten [[UsefulNotes/GrammyAward [[MediaNotes/GrammyAward Grammys]], four [[MediaNotes/EmmyAward Emmys]], an honorary [[UsefulNotes/TonyAwardWinners [[MediaNotes/TonyAwardWinners Tony]],[[note]]Which makes her one of the few people to have pulled off an "[[UsefulNotes/TheEGOTs "[[MediaNotes/TheEGOTs EGOT]]" -- winning an Emmy, a Grammy, an Oscar and a Tony -- though the honorary status of her Tony means that her position in that club is debatable.[[/note]] and a Peabody. She was also the first woman to win a [[UsefulNotes/GoldenGlobeAward [[MediaNotes/GoldenGlobeAward Golden Globe]] for Best Director, was a Kennedy Center Honors honoree and won AFI's Lifetime Achievement Award in 2001.
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She has had an astonishing ''thirty-three albums'' hit the Top Ten, ten of which went Number One, and is the only singer in history to have a Number One album in six consecutive decades, beginning with ''People'' in 1964 and, as of now, ending with ''Encore!'' in 2016. She defined the adult contemporary music genre during the 1960s and '70s and much of the '80s as well. She has won two [[UsefulNotes/AcademyAward Oscars]], ten [[UsefulNotes/GrammyAward Grammys]], four [[UsefulNotes/EmmyAward Emmys]], an honorary [[UsefulNotes/TonyAwardWinners Tony]],[[note]]Which makes her one of the few people to have pulled off an "[[UsefulNotes/TheEGOTs EGOT]]" -- winning an Emmy, a Grammy, an Oscar and a Tony -- though the honorary status of her Tony means that her position in that club is debatable.[[/note]] and a Peabody. She was also the first woman to win a [[UsefulNotes/GoldenGlobeAward Golden Globe]] for Best Director, was a Kennedy Center Honors honoree and won AFI's Lifetime Achievement Award in 2001.

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She has had an astonishing ''thirty-three albums'' hit the Top Ten, ten of which went Number One, and is the only singer in history to have a Number One album in six consecutive decades, beginning with ''People'' in 1964 and, as of now, ending with ''Encore!'' in 2016. She defined the adult contemporary music genre during the 1960s and '70s and much of the '80s as well. She has won two [[UsefulNotes/AcademyAward Oscars]], ten [[UsefulNotes/GrammyAward Grammys]], four [[UsefulNotes/EmmyAward [[MediaNotes/EmmyAward Emmys]], an honorary [[UsefulNotes/TonyAwardWinners Tony]],[[note]]Which makes her one of the few people to have pulled off an "[[UsefulNotes/TheEGOTs EGOT]]" -- winning an Emmy, a Grammy, an Oscar and a Tony -- though the honorary status of her Tony means that her position in that club is debatable.[[/note]] and a Peabody. She was also the first woman to win a [[UsefulNotes/GoldenGlobeAward Golden Globe]] for Best Director, was a Kennedy Center Honors honoree and won AFI's Lifetime Achievement Award in 2001.
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Streisand is married to Creator/JamesBrolin.

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Streisand is married to Creator/JamesBrolin.
Creator/JamesBrolin, and previously was in a relationship with Creator/BarryDennen from 1960-61.
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* ShoutOut: To the Art/NefertitiBust. In the TV special "Color Me Barbra", Streisand dresses up as Nefertiti as per the look of the bust (so without uraeus and strips) during the song "Where Or When". As she walks around, she passes by a copy of the Nefertiti bust.



** One of her concert specials had her sing a duet with a teenage girl who was portraying a younger version of her, which evolved into a trio when a video recording of Streisand singing in ''Film/{{Yentl}}'' was brought out.

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** One of her concert specials had her sing a duet with a teenage girl who was portraying a younger version of her, which evolved into a trio when a video recording of Streisand singing in ''Film/{{Yentl}}'' was brought out.out.
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* FreeHandedPerformer: Her song "Piano Practicing" is about a little girl who wants to be a soprano while her mother wants her to learn the piano. She hates playing it, gives up and becomes a singer, just like Barbra.
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-->''Love is a bore
Love is a ball game without a score
Love is a sail boat without a sail

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-->''Love is a bore
bore\\
Love is a ball game without a score
score\\
Love is a sail boat without a sailsail\\



-->''You don't bring me flowers
You don't sing me love songs
You hardly talk to me anymore

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-->''You don't bring me flowers
flowers\\
You don't sing me love songs
songs\\
You hardly talk to me anymoreanymore\\
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!!Tropes in her music:

* AntiLoveSong: "Down With Love" suggests giving it back to "the birds and the bees and the Viennese," while "Love is a Bore" compares it to a number of useless and/or little-desired things.
-->''Love is a bore
Love is a ball game without a score
Love is a sail boat without a sail
The lock on the candy store''
* AwardBaitSong: Sang the sweeping "I Finally Found Someone" with Music/BryanAdams for ''Film/TheMirrorHasTwoFaces''. It didn't fail to get Oscar-nominated.
* DeadSparks: "You Don't Bring Me Flowers" with Music/NeilDiamond. It's about a marriage that's no longer loving.
-->''You don't bring me flowers
You don't sing me love songs
You hardly talk to me anymore
When I come through the door at the end of the day''
* IWantSong: The aptly titled "All That I Want", where the singer sings about wanting a life of luxury and maybe true love, but that one's optional.
* LoveNostalgiaSong: In the apty titled "The Way We Were", the singer sings about the way their love used to be.
* SoloDuet:
** On ''Just For The Record'', the last song is "You'll Never Know" which has Streisand duetting with her younger self, from the very first recording she ever made.
** Also, on her album ''Barbra Joan Streisand'', she sings "One Less Bell To Answer/A House Is Not A Home" with herself.
** "Mother and Child", recorded for the [[WhatCouldHaveBeen abandoned]] ConceptAlbum ''Life Cycle of a Woman'', has her singing the parts of both the mother and child.
** One of her concert specials had her sing a duet with a teenage girl who was portraying a younger version of her, which evolved into a trio when a video recording of Streisand singing in ''Film/{{Yentl}}'' was brought out.
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TropeNamer for the StreisandEffect, after her failed attempt to censor a picture of her house; [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Barbrahouse1_5204.png this one to be precise]], which was posted online by the California Coastal Records Project as a review of said Coastline (to which Streisand disagreed with, tried to sue, and failed).

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TropeNamer for the StreisandEffect, after her failed attempt to censor a picture of her house; [[https://static.house ([[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Barbrahouse1_5204.png this one to be precise]], which precise]]). The picture was posted online by taken during a geological survey of the California Coastal Records Project as a review of said Coastline (to which Streisand disagreed with, tried to sue, coastline, and failed).was a completely unremarkable entry in a database with thousands of similar pictures. Streisand's legal battle ''made'' it remarkable, and the picture is now plastered all over the Internet with her name next to it.
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Barbra Joan Streisand (born April 24, 1942 in New York City, New York) is an American singer and actress.

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Barbra Joan Streisand (born April 24, 1942 in New York City, New York) is an American singer singer, actor, and actress.
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Barbra Joan Streisand (born April 24, 1942 in New York City, New York) is an American singer and actor.

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Barbra Joan Streisand (born April 24, 1942 in New York City, New York) is an American singer and actor.
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Barbra Joan Streisand (born April 24, 1942 in New York City, New York) is an American singer and actress.

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Barbra Joan Streisand (born April 24, 1942 in New York City, New York) is an American singer and actress.
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