Barbra Streisand, singer, songwriter, actress, and movie producer and director, has been one of the most popular and influential entertainers of the late 20th century. Barbara Joan Streisand, born on , began her musical career at an early age. When someone said her last name sounded “too Jewish,
” she changed the spelling of her first name.
In 1961, Streisand landed her first job as a Greenwich Village nightclub singer. Then, while headlining at the Blue Angel,...