STREISAND – IT ONLY HAPPENS ONCE
Anne Edwards (1996)
Barbra Streisand has been at the top almost from the first moment she sang professionally more than 30 years ago. As Anne Edwards reveals she had a, difficult childhood, her father dying when she was two and her mother remarrying a man Streisand disliked. She wanted to be an actress, but on discovering her voice had perfect pitch, she concentrated on singing. Her fame was ensured when she played the lead in only her second Broadway show.
Streisand: A Biography is much more than the story of the world's greatest living performer, how she got there, and why she remains at the top after three decades, it is also, in Anne Edward's sure hands, a compelling chronicle of a woman's fight to validate her appearance, her talent, and her right to love and be loved. Time and time again Streisand has demonstrated the ability to reinvent herself to keep pace with the continuing changes in musical taste. This updated edition of Edwards's pioneering biography chronicles her public life as a political activist as well as her private life as Mrs. James Brolin.
AUTHOR: ANNE EDWARDS (Born 1927 New York) is an American writer best known for her biographies of celebrities that include Princess Diana, Maria Callas, Judy Garland, Katharine Hepburn, Vivien Leigh, Margaret Mitchell, Ronald Reagan, Barbra Streisand, Shirley Temple and Countess Sonya Tolstoy.
FACT FILE: BARBARA JOAN STREISAND (born April 24, 1942 in Brooklyn), known professionally as Barbra Streisand, is an American singer, actress, and filmmaker. 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 theatres 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. , 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 honoured 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 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 therr best-selling recording artists of all time. According to the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), she is the highest certified female artist in the United States, with 68.5 million certified album units tying with Mariah Carey, 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.
PUBLISHER: Weidenfeld & Nicholson/Orion London. Plasti-coated Hardcover 233mm x 160mm. 416 pages. Index. ISBN: 0297817124. Weight: 970g
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