The following year she reached great commercial success with her first Columbia Records solo releases, 'The Barbra Streisand Album' (multiple Grammy winner, including 'Best Album of the Year') and 'The Second Barbra Streisand Album' (her first RIAA Gold Album) these albums, mostly devoted to composer Harold Arlen, brought her critical praise and, most of all, public acclaim all over the US. She debuted on Broadway in the 1962 musical comedy 'I Can Get It For You Wholesale' by Harold Rome, receiving a Tony Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress and a New York Drama Critics Poll award.

After a period as a nightclub singer and off-Broadway performer in New York City she began to attract interest and a fan base, thanks to her original and powerful vocal talent. She was raised in a middle-class family and grew up dreaming of becoming an actress (or even an actress / conductor, as she happily described her teenage years at one of her concerts). As a child she attended the Beis Yakov Jewish School in Brooklyn. She has a brother, Sheldon, and a half-sister, Roslyn Kind, from their mother's remarriage. Her father died when she was 15 months old. She was born in Brooklyn, New York, in 1942 to Diana Kind (née Ida Rosen), a singer turned school secretary, and Emanuel Streisand, a high school teacher.

She is the only person ever to receive all of the following: Oscar, Tony, Emmy, Grammy, Golden Globe, Cable Ace, National Endowment for the Arts, and Peabody awards, as well as the Kennedy Center Honor, American Film Institute's Lifetime Achievement honor and the Film Society of Lincoln Center Chaplin Award. Barbra Streisand is an American singer, actress, director and producer and one of the most successful personalities in show business.

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