In fact, she a tragic start that helped define the rest of her life.
Streisand was born on April 24, 1942 in Brooklyn, New York, to Diana and Emmanuel Streisand.
That fateful day when her father never came home changed his young daughter’s childhood and life forever.
However, it was apparently not a happy home where children could thrive.
The singer’s brother, Sheldon, described what it was like living with his grandparents toPeopleback in 1983.
“[They were] decent, hardworking people, but there was no love in that house.
But that didn’t bring happiness to the young girl’s life.
Meanwhile, Streisand told People that she finally found a way to get positive attention.
“I used to wonder what did I have to do to get attention …
When I started to sing I got attention.”
Streisand was only 18 years old and living in Manhattan, but finding work on Broadway was impossible.
That’s when she began singing in Greenwich Village gay bars, which were considered taboo at the time.
While it can take years for some people to make it on Broadway, it took Streisand only one.
“And I said my question would be, ‘How could we have grown apart?’
Then I also said to her, ‘We did great.
We made it very fast and nobody has what we have.
There’s you and me and our kid.'”
As of this writing, Streisand and Brolin just celebrated their 23rd wedding anniversary.
And 23 years is better than ever, I must say” (viaPeople).
