Barbra Streisand on “The Secret of Life”

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Barbra Streisand has been a immense beingness successful American entertainment—music, film, and stage—for much than sixty years. She was the youngest idiosyncratic ever to execute the EGOT, winning Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, and Tony awards by the property of twenty-seven. At eighty-three years old, Streisand is releasing a caller album, “The Secret of Life: Partners, Volume 2.” It’s a postulation of duets featuring Paul McCartney, Bob Dylan, and Seal, on with younger artists including Hozier, Sam Smith, and Ariana Grande. Streisand sat down with David Remnick to speech astir the grounds and the past down it. Bob Dylan, for one, seemingly had a crush connected the vocalist from afar. “We were some nineteen years aged successful Greenwich Village, ne'er met each other,” Streisand says. “I retrieve him sending maine flowers and penning maine a paper successful antithetic colour pencils, similar a child’s writing, you know. And ‘Would you sing with me?’ And I thought, What would I sing with him?” Streisand talks with Remnick astir her analyzable puerility with her mother, who was jealous of her talent; her dislike of unrecorded performance; and the classy mode to rebuff a come-on from Marlon Brando.

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