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Guilty (Album) by Barbra Streisand

Artist Biography For Barbra Streisand

Barbra Streisand Born Barbara Joan Streisand April 24 1942 Brooklyn New York Is An Academy Award-Winning American Singer Theater And Film Actress Composer Film Producer And Director. She Has Won Oscars For Best Actress And Best Original Song As Well As Multiple Emmy Awards Grammy Awards Golden Globe Awards And An Honorary Tony Award. She Received The Prestigious Kennedy Center Honor On December 7 2008. She Is The Most Successful Female Recording Artist According To The Recording Industry Assoc. Of America RIAA . Barbra Streisand Has Recorded More Than 60 Albums Almost All With Columbia Records. Her Early Works In The 1960s Her Debut The Barbra Streisand Album Which Won Two Grammy Awards In 1963 Followed By The Second Barbra Streisand Album The Third Album My Name Is Barbra Etc. Are Considered Classic Renditions Of Theater And Nightclub Standards Including Her Version Of Happy Days Are Here Again. Beginning With My Name Is Barbra Her Albums Were Often Medley-Filled Keepsakes Of Her Television Specials. Starting In 1969 Streisand Tackled Contemporary Songwriters Like Many Talented Singers Of The Day She Found Herself A Fish Out Of Water In Attempts To Tackle Rock But Her Vocal Talents Prevailed And She Gained Newfound Success With The Pop And Ballad-Oriented Richard Perry-Produced Album Stoney End In 1971. The Title Track Written By Laura Nyro Was A Big Hit For Streisand. Streisand's 1980 Album Guilty Featured The Songwriting Production And Vocal Talents Of Barry Gibb And Was The Best-Selling Album Of Her Recording Career. During The 1970s She Was Also Highly Prominent In The Pop Charts With Number-One Records Like The Way We Were Evergreen No More Tears Enough Is Enough Her Duet With Donna Summer And Woman In Love Some Of These Came From Soundtracks Of Her Films. She Recently Took Part In Supporting Haiti In Singing "We Are The World 25th Anniversary. When The 1970s Ended Streisand Was Named The Most Successful Female Singer In The U.S. - Only Elvis Presley And The Beatles Having Sold More Albums. 1 1 In 1982 New York Times Music Critic Stephen Holden Wrote That Streisand Was "the Most Influential Mainstream American Pop Singer Since Frank Sinatra."

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Frogtoon Music Album Info: Guilty

Guilty Is An Album Released By Barbra Streisand In 1980. After The Success Of The Bee Gees In 1977/1978 There Was Some Time To Perform Songwriting For Other Artists And Barbra Streisand Asked Barry Gibb To Write An Album For Her. It Became Her Best-Selling Album To Date With Sales According To Streisand's Official Website Of Over 15 Million Copies And Was Produced By The Bee Gees' Barry Gibb And The Bee Gees' Regular Production Team Of Albhy Galuten And Karl Richardson. The Title Track A Duet Between Streisand And Gibb Won The Grammy Award For Best Pop Performance By A Duo Or Group With Vocal In 1981 And Was A #3 Billboard Hot 100 Hit. The First Single "Woman In Love" Became One Of The Most Successful Songs Of Streisand's Music Career And Spent A Total Of Three Weeks At The #1 Position In The Billboard Chart. "What Kind Of Fool" Another Duet With Gibb Reached #10. The Fourth Single "Promises" A More Disco-Oriented Track Released In May 1981 Reached As High As #48. This Song Was Also Released On Streisand's First Commercially-Released 12" Disco Single As A Solo Artist Following Her 1979 Duet With Donna Summer And Two "promotional" 12" Singles Released For "Shake Me Wake Me When It's Over In 1975 And "The Main Event/Fight" In 1979. Streisand Released A Sequel To This Album Guilty Pleasures In 2005 Also Produced And Largely Written By Gibb. Guilty Was Re-Released On DualDisc On 30 August 2005 In Advance Of Its Sequel Project Guilty Pleasures. The Re-Release Featured Remastered Audio New Interviews With Streisand And Gibb Two Live Performances From 1986 And A Photo Gallery Of The Original Photo Session For Guilty By Mario Casilli.