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Subject: Reg Idol Spotlight: Streisand Looks Back on 25 Years Author: Music Inside Buzz Music Artist Special [ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ] Date Posted: 00:48:31 09/28/05 Wed In reply to: Music Inside Buzz Music Artist Special 's message, "Bird Nest- " Spotlight on Superstar Barbra Streisand "" on 00:41:32 09/28/05 Wed ********** Regine music idol spotlight ************ Barbra Streisand has had considerable success not only as a singer, but as an actress and director as well. ************************************************** Sept. 22, 2005 -- A quarter of a century after her first collaboration with Barry Gibb, Barbra Streisand is releasing a new album with the Bee Gees star — but the legendary singer, actress and director says she's a different woman than when "Guilty" hit the charts in 1980. She is a woman who is "less afraid," she told Diane Sawyer in an exclusive interview. Streisand is infamous for having avoided live performances for nearly three decades due to a debilitating bout of stage fright. She told Sawyer she traced her phobia to a concert in New York's Central Park in 1967, during which she forgot the lyrics to one of her songs. She described the experience as "staggering." "I couldn't come out of it. … It was shocking to me to forget the words. So, I didn't have any sense of humor about it," she told Sawyer. "You know, I didn't make up words … some performers really do well when they forget the words. They forget the words all the time, but they somehow have humor about it. I remember I didn't have a sense of humor about it. I was quite shocked." Added Streisand, "I didn't sing and charge people for 27 years because of that night … I was like, 'God, I don't know. What if I forget the words again?'" Streisand returned to the stage in the early 1990s. In the Blink of an Eye Streisand said she's also getting better about dealing with bad reviews — but said they still hurt her. "You know, I can't remember my good reviews. I remember negative ones. They stay in my mind. So, that says a lot about my upbringing or, you know, a feeling of self-worth when I was younger. Now, I can sort of look at it and see that's kind of funny. But, you know, it is true even today," she said. Streisand also remarked on the passing of time. "You know, what I'm fascinated by is how fast the time is going. In a blink of an eye. I mean it's 15 years later … it's 20 years later … it's 25 years later," said Streisand. Sawyer asked her if her voice can still do everything she wants it to do. "You know, I always think I can't do it," she replied. "If I try to sing it … the beginning of a record, let's say … 'Ooh, my God! … And then as I sing, it just sort of opens up, and I thank God for this gift that I have. Because I'm surprised myself." Streisand's new album, titled "Guilty Pleasures," hits stores this month. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Photos: Barbra Streisand: Through the Years http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/popup?id=1142721 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ A special posting on the Regine Velasquez fans bird nest yahoo group on-line. ;-> --------- > rv_thebirdnest Music * Inside * Buzz http://insidebuzz.tripod.com REgInE VeLasQueZ - ThE FaNs BiRd'S nEsT! < ---------------------------------- [ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ]

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[> [> Subject: Spotlight on Regine Music Idol - Barbra Streisand Author: Music Inside Buzz Music Artist Special [Edit] Date Posted: 00:55:03 09/28/05 Wed Spotlight on Regine Music Idol - Barbra Streisand Monday, February 03, 2003 / By Joelle Jacinto Barbra Streisand sings more in "Duets" ANY true Barbra Streisand fan would not be caught dead without this album. The diva's followers would be glad to know that there's a new Streisand masterpiece on the shelves, one that can only be described as 'a career-spanning collection featuring 19 of Barbra's classic duets hits.' What's more, two of those are newly recorded tracks - with Barry Manilow entitled "I Won't Be The One To Let Go" and "All I Know Of Love" with Josh Groban. And it only gets better. The album also features Barbra's duet with Frank Sinatra, "I've Got A Crush On You," for the first time on any Barbra Streisand album. Their parts were recorded separately for Sinatra's own "Duets" album in 1993, but when Barbra cheekily flirted "Oh, you make me blush, Francis." Sinatra re-recorded his part to reply to her with, "I've got a crush, my Barbra, on you." Barbra's "Duets" is full of such classic moments. The album opens with her wonderful timeless duet with Judy Garland, "Get Happy/Happy Days Are Here Again," and continues with the most classic duets in the history of popular music. Included in this collection are Barbra's memorable duets with Neil Diamond ("You Don't Bring Me Flowers"), Ray Charles ("Crying Time"), Kris Kristofferson ("Lost Inside of You"), Johnny Mathis ("I Have A Love/One Hand, One Heart"), Don Johnson ("Till I Loved You"), Donna Summer ("No More Tears"), Kim Carnes ("Make No Mistake, He's Mine"), Barry Gibb ("Guilty" and "What Kind of Fool"). Some tracks are the unforgettable themes of her films, such as "I Finally Found Someone" with Bryan Adams. Celine Dion performed the Oscar-nominated "I Finally Found Someone" at the 1997 Academy Awards, after which Barbra had said to her, "Next time, let's do one together." The result was "Tell Him," which is inevitably included in "Duets" as well. The career of Barbra Streisand has been paved with bold, creative achievements and highlighted by a series of firsts. Those who have not really followed the star's career would be amazed at her long list of achievements. Aside from a remarkable recording career, "The Prince of Tides" was the first motion picture directed by its female star ever to receive a Best Director nomination from the Directors Guild of America as well as seven Academy Award nominations. Barbra Streisand produced the heralded drama in addition to directing and starring in it. Her very first Broadway appearance in "I Can Get It For You Wholesale" won her the New York Drama Critics Award and received a Tony nomination. For her very first record album, "The Barbra Streisand Album," she won two 1963 Grammy Awards, one of which was for Album of the Year; and she was then the youngest artist to have received that award. For her motion picture debut in "Funny Girl," she won the 1968 Academy Award for Best Actress, the first of two Oscars. With "Yentl" in 1983, she became the first woman ever to produce, direct, write and star in a major motion picture. She was honored with an Emmy Award and the distinguished Peabody Award for her first television special, "My Name Is Barbra," in 1965. The program earned a total of five Emmys. 30 years later, "Barbra Streisand: The Concert" earned her two additional Emmy awards. She is the first female composer ever to win an Academy Award, this for her song, "Evergreen," the love theme from her 1976 hit film, "A Star Is Born." She was nominated again in 1997 as co-composer of "I Finally Found Someone," the love theme for her most recent film as director/producer/star, "The Mirror Has Two Faces." The "actress who sings," as Streisand once called herself, has repeatedly been at the top of the record sales charts. Her recent albums, "A Love Like Ours" (1999) and the double album, "Timeless - Live In Concert" (2000), were both quickly certified as gold and then platinum. Her prior "Higher Ground" (1997) and earlier "Back To Broadway" (1993) albums are among only a handful of recordings ever to become Number One on the sales charts in their initial week of release and to go platinum through their first shipping orders. The previous "The Broadway Album" (1985) similarly enjoyed great praise and sales, became #1 and brought her three Grammy nominations and her eighth Grammy for Best Pop Female Vocalist. The double-album "Barbra Streisand: The Concert" (1994) was another recent ffort in her parade of hits. "Higher Ground" occasioned two additional Grammy nominations. At home in pop, show tunes, rock and ballads, she even made a classical album titled "Classical Barbra" (1976) which was nominated for a Grammy Award in the classical division. Of all her releases, 1980's "Guilty," Barbra's collaboration with Barry Gibb of The Bee Gees, achieved the greatest success worldwide, selling over 20 million units and spawning several smash hit singles. Barbra had achieved sales unequaled by any other female recording artist. With forty-seven gold albums, she is second in the all-time charts, ahead of The Beatles and The Rolling Stones, exceeded only by Elvis. Thus, she is the only artist among the top four all-time gold record sellers who was not part of the rock & roll revolution, which has dominated the record business for four decades. Her twenty-eight platinum albums, according to the Recording Industry Association of America, exceed all other female singers. That organization also noted that she is the only female artist ever to have achieved thirteen multi-platinum albums (including the soundtrack for her motion picture "A Star Is Born"), earning her eight Grammy Awards and Grammy's Lifetime Achievement and Legend Awards in the process. Recipient in 1995 of an Honorary Doctorate in Arts and Humanities from Brandeis University, Barbra Streisand is a rare honoree, the only artist to earn Oscar, Tony, Emmy, Grammy, Golden Globe, Cable Ace, Peabody, and the American Film Institute's Life Achievement Award. She is also the recipient of the National Endowment for the Arts' National Medal of Arts and has been honored by France as a Commander of the Order of Arts and Letters. A remarkable body of work from a remarkable woman. She has serenaded the world with her beautiful songs and the heavenly voice the world knows so well. 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