Barbara Joan "Barbra" Streisand (/ˈstraɪsænd/; born April 24, 1942) is an American singer and actress. 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).

Guilty (studio album, with Barry Gibb, 1980) Guilty was a total departure from the more "easy listening" style of adult contemporary pop Barbra Streisand recorded throughout the 1970s. It's also her best-selling album.

145 million records sold Streisand is one of the best-selling music artists of all time, with more than 68.5 million albums in the United States and with a total of 145 million records sold worldwide.

Apollo's musical prowess is on full display on “Evergreen,” as he fluctuates from whisper to bellow, singing of unrequited love over sophisticated R&B runs. Lyrically, it's as vulnerable a confession as one could make, but it shouldn't be mistaken as a cry for help; instead, it's an effort to make peace.

Although Ed claims to have discovered her singing in a Greenwich Village nightclub, she had in fact already had a Broadway hit (I Can Get It For You Wholesale), received a Tony nomination and recorded her first album by the time she appeared on Ed's show.

Barbra Streisand viewed singing as “a means to an end”, but became one of the greatest vocalists the world will ever know –says Jaime Babbitt.

Best-selling artists worldwide as of 2022 Perhaps unsurprisingly, British rock band The Beatles are top of the list for best-selling artists worldwide, with 183 million units certified sales. Second is Garth Brooks with over 157 million units sales, followed by Elvis Presley with 139 million units.

Thriller Thriller – Michael Jackson – Best Selling Albums Of All Time. Finally, the King of Pop has held on to the top spot posthumously since 2009, selling over 66 million copies worldwide! As well as the title, track, the album was packed with best-selling singles from 'Billie Jean', to 'P.Y. T', to 'Beat It'.

250 million or more records

evergreen, any plant that retains its leaves through the year and into the following growing season. Many tropical species of broad-leaved flowering plants are evergreen, but in cold-temperate and Arctic areas the evergreens commonly are cone-bearing shrubs or trees (conifers), such as pines and firs.

R&B But it was “Evergreen,” a soulful, R&B-tinged deep cut, that captured the hearts of fans and catapulted Apollo onto the Billboard Hot 100 for the first time, through what every artists hopes for in 2022: a viral TikTok moment.

[Barbra-Archives Note: Barbra Streisand's collection of Art Deco and Art Nouveau was auctioned by Christie's in 1994. The collection netted $5.8 million.

It is named after American singer and actress Barbra Streisand, whose attempt to suppress the California Coastal Records Project's photograph of her cliff-top residence in Malibu, California, taken to document California coastal erosion, inadvertently drew greater attention to the photograph in 2003.

The 200 greatest singers of all time according to Rolling Stone as of January 2023

The greatest singing voices of all time

• 1 of 35. Celine Dion. Kevin Winter/Getty Images.
• 2 of 35. Barbra Streisand. Kevin Mazur/Getty Images for BSB.
• 3 of 35. Etta James.
• 4 of 35. Nina Simone.
• 5 of 35. Aretha Franklin.
• 6 of 35. Whitney Houston.
• 7 of 35. Smokey Robinson.
• 8 of 35. Mariah Carey.

The 200 greatest singers of all time according to Rolling Stone as of January 2023