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Barbra Streisand: Singers
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Barbra Streisand's collaboration with Barry Gibb marks an astonishing climax to the second phase of her eighteen-year recording career. This phase, which began almost a decade ago with Stoney End, has had its ups (Streisand Superman) and downs (Butterfly) as the singer tried to adapt her stentorian, pseudoperatic style to a variety of rock and soul trends. Yet despite having loosened up enough to be called "contemporary" (which she certainly wasn't in the late Sixties), Streisand is still essentially a theatrical diva.
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Barbra Streisand is so security conscious that she wants a police K-9 team to sweep arenas before she performs. Streisand's security requirements--which include metal detectors at all doors--are detailed in the below excerpt from her 2006 tour rider. The "thorough inspection" by the K-9 team, which is required before the singer's pre-show sound check, is presumably geared toward discovering explosive devices.
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After a music competition, Streisand became a nightclub singer while in her teens. She originally wanted to be an actress and appeared in a number of Off-Off-Broadway productions, including one with then-aspiring actress Joan Rivers, but when her boyfriend Barry Dennen helped her create a club act — first performed in a gay bar in Manhattan's Greenwich Village in 1960; she achieved success as a singer. In 1961 Streisand appeared at the Town and Country nightclub in Winnipeg, MB, but her appearance was cut short; audiences did not understand her revolutionary singing style. http://www.barbra-archives.com/Performances/streisand_towncountry.html. It was at this time that she shortened her first name to Barbra to make it more distinctive.
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