Barbara Joan Streisand (she will change her name to Barbra when she is 18 to look more “unique”) was born on April 24, 1942 in Brooklyn, New York City to Diana Ida Rosen Kind (1908-2002) and Emanuel Streisand, son , born of Jewish immigrants. Her mother was 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 as a result of a seizure, possibly resulting from head trauma following a fall. The family almost fell into poverty, Diana and the children, Barbra and her brother Sheldon, moved in with their maternal grandparents in a small three-room apartment, where the only protection from their grandfather’s barrel was the kitchen table, under which she and her brother took refuge. Barbra consoled herself with the only doll she had: a hot water bottle. As an adult, the singer recalled those early years when she always felt like an “outcast,” explaining, “Everybody else’s father would come home from work at the end of the day. my no ” The mother tried to continue the family as much as possible, but could not give her daughter the attention she wanted: “I was looking for my mother’s love, she gave me food,” Streisand recalled several times. The singer has an older brother, Sheldon , and a half-sister, singer Roslyn Kind, who was born of her mother’s marriage to Louis Kind in 1950. Her stepfather called Barbra “the beast,” while Roslyn was his beloved “beauty.” “You’re not pretty enough,” he replied once when Barbra asked him for money for an ice cream cone.”I bowed at his damn feet and called him daddy and brought him his slippers for two days. Nothing changed. He didn’t treat me any better. He didn’t.” talked to me. He didn’t see me. He didn’t like me,” Barbra recalled.
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