Barbra Streisand record history and tour info

Barbra Streisand is one of the most legendary singers of our time with over 50 gold, 30 platinum and 13 multi-platinum albums. She is also the only artist to have received an Oscar, Tony, Emmy Grammy, Golden Globe, Cable Ace and Peabody Award, as well as the American Film Institute's Life Achievement Award. Her music and acting is world renown and she is bringing her great talent to concert arenas across America in the Fall of 2006.

In 1962, Barbra Streisand appeared on Broadway in her first but critically acclaimed role in "I Can Get It for You Wholesale" in 1962, and she quickly signed her first record deal with Columbia Records in that same year. Her first record, The Barbra Streisand Album, won 2 Grammy Awards in 1963. Streisand's popularity soared and her first 3 records were all at the top of Billboard's Top Ten pop albums. Barbra would not put acting on hold however, as she starred in the movie Funny Girl in 1964. The movie was based on the life of Fanny Brice and begin opening eyes of her acting as well as musical talents. Streisand would then star in several TV specials including 1965's My Name Is Barbra, which was critically acclaimed and drew more attention to her great acting as well as singing skills. Some of Barbara's records in the 1960's were The Second Barbra Streisand Album, The Third Album, and My Name Is Barbra. These albums featured Barbra's unique and beautiful singing voice performing nightclub and theatre standards and they also did very well on the pop charts. The late 60's and 70's brought change to her music styling, as she would produce new versions of current songs. Streisand's next big hit record came with the pop laden Stoney End in 1971, with the title track becoming the biggest hit off the record. Streisand was successful in the 70's and outsold every other female recording artist of the time.  Her #1 1970's records included the pop songs, "The Way We Were", "Evergreen", "No More Tears (Enough Is Enough)" and "Woman In Love". She was third in record sales only below rock immortals, Elvis and the Beatles. But her biggest success would be the 1980 album, Guilty, featuring Barry Gibb of the Bee Gees. After venturing into pop music Barbra came out with a theatrical laden album named appropriately, "The Broadway Album". The album was able to crossover and still hit the top of the billboard charts, even though it contained Broadway tunes rather than pop numbers. The Album included reworked recordings written by Stephen Sondheim and was nominated as Album of the Year in 1985. Not only that but she Streisand won her 8th Grammy as best Female Vocalist. After amounting a slew of number 1 records and hits, Streisand released a greatest hits box set in 1991 called "Just For the Record". The box set featured 70 songs spanning her almost 30 year old singing career from the early 1960's to 91'.

Fervor for a Barbra Streisand concert tour grows....

A Barbra Streisand tour was wanted by all of her fans as Barbra Streisand concert tickets were in huge demand by 1993. But, due to her intense stage fright Barbra was unable to get together a concert tour or schedule. However, after another successful album titled "#1 Back to Broadway", In September 1993, Streisand made a huge announcement that she would start her first public concert tour in 27 years. Tickets to the limited Barbra Streisand tour sold out almost instantly and Streisand created some of the biggest concert ticket demand ever seen. The tour was titled, "Barbra Streisand: The Concert", and it went on to be the top grossing concert of the year, earned 2 Emmy Awards, a coveted Peabody Award, and the broadcast on HBO to this day is the highest rated music HBO concert special in the cable channel's 30 year history. Barbra would not return to the stage until New Year's Eve 1999, scoring the highest grossing single concert in Las Vegas history to date with a good amount of the proceeds going to charity. At the close of the 1990's, she still was the number-one female singer in the U.S., with at least 2 #1 albums in each decade since she had started out in 1962. Her most recent albums have been Christmas Memories (2001), a collection of holiday songs, and The Movie Album (2003), featuring famous movie themes and backed by a large symphony orchestra. Streisand would also release a new collaboration with the Bee Gees front man, Barry Gibb, called Guilty Pleasures, which was a return album to their previous one, Guilty. The album was released worldwide in 2005 and was a major success. Streisand has decided to tour again in 2006 in an effort to raise money and awareness for multiple issues and charities dear to her heart. The new Barbra Streisand tour will kick off in October 2006, in Philadelphia and will hit many major U.S. cities such as New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Miami, and San Jose to name a few. Get your Barbra Streisand tickets from ABCtickets.com if you want to sit in premium seats and see her live for the first time in 7 years, you may not get another chance to see one of the best vocalists of our time again!