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Barbra Streisand

BARBRA STREISAND
 
 
Barbra Streisand  (born April 24, 1942) is an American singer, songwriter, actress, and filmmaker.  During a career spanning 60 years, she has become an icon and legend in multiple fields of entertainment, winning numerous awards.  She is among only 17 entertainers who have won an Oscar, Golden Globe, Emmy, Grammy, and Tony Award.  She is one of the best-selling music artists of all time, with more than 72.5 million albums in the United States and 245 million records sold worldwide,which makes her the best-selling female artist on the Recording Industry Association of America’s Top Selling Album Artists list.  By the end of the 1960’s, Streisand ventured into film, starring in Funny Girl, for which she won the Academy Award and Golden Globe Award for Best Actress.  With the release of Yentl in 1983, Streisand established herself as one of the film industry’s most notable figures by becoming the first woman to write, produce, direct, and act in a major film.  (More from Wikipedia)
 
 
Those fancy singers do love their nursery rhymes:  Barbra Streisand put “Who’s Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf” on her debut album, The Barbra Streisand Album.  I picked that one up for a buck in mint condition not long ago, though that was local, not in Atlanta. 
 
(October 2010)
 
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The newest member of Trillion, CJ Vanston has also performed on the last two albums by Steve Lukather of Toto and the recent tour by Tears For Fears, as well as a remarkably varied list of other artists like Joe Cocker, Ringo Starr, Bob Seger, Prince, Tina Turner, Barbra Streisand, Richard Marx, Celine Dion, and ’NSync.  Interestingly, CJ Vanston also worked with Patrick Leonard on the Anna Vissi album referenced previously, Apagorevmeno. 
 
(October 2012)
 
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The Stone Poneys album, Linda Ronstadt, Stone Poneys and Friends, Volume III included “Let’s Get Together” and “Stoney End” – several years before those songs became big hits for the Youngbloods and Barbra Streisand, respectively.  

 

(October 2013)