Barbara Joan Streisand, conocida artísticamente como Barbra Streisand, nació el 24 de abril de 1942 en Williamsburg, Brooklyn, Nueva York. Desde temprana edad, Streisand mostró un talento excepcional para el canto y la actuación, marcando el comienzo de una carrera que la llevaría a convertirse en una de las figuras más prominentes y reconocidas de la industria del entretenimiento.
Streisand creció en un hogar humilde. Su padre, Emanuel Streisand, falleció cuando ella tenía solo 15 meses, dejando a su madre, Diana, criar a Barbra y su hermano mayor, Sheldon, en condiciones bastante precarias. A pesar de las dificultades económicas, Barbra se destacó en la escuela y mostró un interés temprano por las artes.
A finales de la década de 1950, en su adolescencia, Barbra decidió seguir una carrera en el mundo del espectáculo. Después de graduarse de la Erasmus Hall High School en 1959, se mudó a Manhattan para buscar oportunidades en el teatro y la música. Su determinación la llevó a presentarse en varios clubes nocturnos neoyorquinos, donde rápidamente ganó la atención por su poderosa voz y talento interpretativo.
En 1960, participó en la obra "Another Evening with Harry Stoones", la cual resultó ser un fracaso, pero esto no la detuvo. Su carrera comenzó a despuntar cuando fue contratada para actuar en el famoso club de Greenwich Village, el Bon Soir. En 1962, Barbra debutó en Broadway con la obra musical "I Can Get It for
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You are complete,
Yes, you are your own;
We do not belong together.
You are complete, just you all alone.
I am unfinished, I am diminished
With or without you.
We do not belong together,
And we should have belonged together.
What made it so right together
Is what made it all wrong.
No one is you and no one can be,
But others will do though.
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But no one is me, no, no one is me!
We do not belong together,
And we'll never belong...
There's nothing to say,
I cannot be what you want,
I did what I had to do,
Now it's up to you...
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If you can go where you're going,
You've gone.
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The chosing was not,
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Look at what you want
Not what might have been
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Opened up my eyes, taught me how to see,
Notice every tree,
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Through this something new,
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And we should have belonged together.
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Settle for the glow, time for letting go
Now the moment's gone...
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Move on...
Move on...