Barbara Joan Streisand (she will change her name to Barbra at 18 to look more “unique”) was born on April 24, 1942 in Brooklyn, New York City, daughter of Diana Ida Rosen Kind (1908–2002) and Emanuel Streisand, son of Jewish immigrants. Her mother had been a soprano in her youth and dreamed of a career in music, while her father was a teacher. In August 1943, a few months after Streisand’s first birthday, Emanuel died at the age of 34 from complications from a seizure, possibly the result of head trauma following a fall. The family almost fell into poverty, Diana and the children, Barbra and her brother Sheldon, went to live with their maternal grandparents in a small three-room apartment, where the only shelter from their grandfather’s barrel was the kitchen table, under which she and her brother found refuge. Barbra consoled herself with the only doll available to her: a hot water bottle. As an adult, the singer recalled those early years when she always felt like an ‘outcast’, explaining: ‘Everyone else’s father came home from work at the end of the day. My no. ” The mother tried to carry on the family as best she could, but she could not give her daughter the attention she wanted: “I was looking for my mother’s love, she gave me food,” he recalled on several occasions. Streisand. The singer has an older brother, Sheldon, and a half-sister, singer Roslyn Kind, born of her mother’s marriage to Louis Kind in 1950. Her stepfather called Barbra ‘the beast’, while Roslyn was her beloved ‘beauty of her “about her. “You’re not pretty enough,” she told her once when she Barbra asked him for money for an ice cream. “I bowed to her fucking feet and called him dad and brought him his slippers for two days. There has been no change. He didn’t treat me better. He didn’t talk to me. He didn’t see me. He didn’t like me, ”Barbra recalled.
April 24, 2022 | 07:17
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