Barbra Streisand on “The Secret of Life”

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Barbra Streisand has been a great presence in American entertainment – Music, Music, and Stage – for more than sixty years. She was the smallest person ever to achieve EgotWinning the Emmy Award, Grammy, Oscar, and Tony by the age of twenty -seven. At the age of eighty -three years, Streisand releases a new album, “The Secret of Life: Partners, Volume 2.” It is a group of dualities that include Paul McCartney, Bob Dylan, and Cell, along with younger artists, including Hozer, Wissam Smith and Ariana Grande. Streisand sat with David Remnick to talk about the record and date behind it. Pob Dylan seems to be crushing the singer from afar. “We were nineteen years old in the village of Greenwich, and we never met each other,” says Stracend. “I remember that he sent me flowers and writes a card with different colors, such as writing the child, as you know.” Do you sing with me? And I thought, What will I sing with him? “Streisand talks to Remnick about her complex childhood with her mother, who was jealous of her talent;
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