Barbra Streisand is an American singer, actress, songwriter, producer, and director. Considered one of the greatest and best-selling vocalists of all time, Streisand began her legendary career playing nightclubs and theaters in her native New York City before rising to fame through a series of television appearances and releasing her debut, The Barbra Streisand Album, in 1963, which garnered three Grammy Awards. 

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She went on to release more acclaimed albums—including The Second Barbra Streisand Album, My Name Is Barbra, and Color Me Barbra—and star as Fanny Bryce in the Broadway and London productions and Academy Award-winning 1968 film Funny Girl. Streisand took home the Academy Award for Best Actress and the iconic soundtrack featured her career staples People and Don't Rain on My Parade. She starred in the big screen adaptation of Hello, Dolly! the following year, and In 1970, she would become the first female EGOT.

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Throughout the 1970s, Streisand added to her run of smash albums and songs—including the chart-topping duets You Don't Bring Me Flowers with Neil Diamond and No More Tears (Enough is Enough) with Donna Summer —and classic movies, such as 1973’s  The Way We Were (which spawned the No.1 Grammy and Academy Award-winning theme song) and the 1976 remake of A Star is Born, in which she starred opposite Kris Kristofferson. It earned Streisand her second Academy Award for Best Original Song for performing and co-writing the No. 1 theme song Evergreen.

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1980 saw the icon release her personal best-selling album, the Barry Gibb-produced Guilty, which featured the title track as well as the No. 1 hits Woman In Love and What Kind of Fool. She went on to work with Gibb again on 2005's Guilty Pleasures and otherwise collaborate with Frank Sinatra, Céline Dion, Bryan Adams, Josh Groban, and John Mayer.  

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Streisand became the first woman to write, produce, direct, and star in a major studio film and the first to win the Golden Globe Award for Best Director for 1983’s Yentl, and she directed and starred in the Academy Award-winning Prince of Tides in 1991 and 1996’s The Mirror Has Two Faces. She was honored with the Presidential Medal of Freedom by Barack Obama in 2015.