She is a true icon----Academy award winner, Tony winner, Emmy winner, Grammy winner. Her vocals no other female artist can match.

One of our greatest female vocalists. She is not an opera singer. Her genre is Broadway and movie hits/ballads But she does cross over into the pop and disco genres too.I she started out in the 60's and starred on Broadway in the hit Musical Funny Girl. She starred in the movie version as well and also the movie version of Hello Dolly. The song she is singing here is from the Broadway hit musical "Cats". This song was originally done by Betty Buckley on Broadway. The story behind this song is this is an older female cat who is dying she's has singing about her life. It's a very beautiful, but sad song. Barbra sings this song every bit as beautifully as Betty Buckley did. ( If you are interested, there is a video of Betty singing this from a live performance) Barbra is a huge star as a vocalist, actor and film director. If you look her up you will see the movies she has been in. She does equally well in comedies , love stories and dramas. She did the remake of "A Star Is Born" with Kris Kristofferson in the mid 1970's. The remake Lady Gaga did a couple of years ago is the 4 th time the movie has been updated. Barbra Streisand songs: The Way We Were, Papa Can You Hear Me, Evergreen, Dont Rain on My Parade, People. Duets with: Barry Gibb ( from the Bee Gee's)... "A Woman I Love" Duet with Donna Summer: "No More Tears/Enough is Enough." Duet with Neil Diamond.. " You Don't Bring Me Flowers Anymore" Barbra is a national treasure. She ijust turned 80 and is still going strong. She is an EGOT award winner...An Emmy, Grammy, Oscar and Tony. There are just a few that have won all 4 of these awards.

she's not an opera singer, she's not even a trained singer. It's just a natural perfect voice from an amazingly talented woman. Sings, acts, movies, and plays She sings every kind of music ever written. listen to My Man or Piece of Sky or It's a Quiet Thing etc. etc. etc. Nice honest reaction.

This was released in November 1981--one of her most brilliant songs that shows off her skills as a singer and actress.

“Evergreen” is another of Barbra’s beautiful songs. 💜💕💜💕💜💕

BARBARA STEISAND IS AN ICON. 🎶🎙🎵

Definitely check out her duet with Donna Summer, Enough is Enough (no more tears)

From the Broadway show - Cats. This is '81 Barbra and a semi-hit. Barbra was a big movie star having as a pop singer and like 19 movies in the 60s, 70s, 80s. 90s. 20s.10s. She did it all .... comedy movies, love dramas and musicals. She was a pop singer who first song was in 1964 and already had a Greatest Hits album released in 1970. She is a Diva and did Jazzy, bluesy to movie musicals and Broadway scores, love story movies also starring in them. Very early 80s here and a traditional Broadway musical song .... she had pop hits from most of her movies but for some comedies. Like others said... she won virtually all types of awards.

She sings in every genre!!!!! The greatest!!!!! Classic pop, classical, rock, disco, Broadway, jazz...etc!

Dont Cry Dont Cry😢Her voice gets you in your feels and gives you the chills! Absolutely one of the best,actually she may be the best!!

Literally the best singer of all time. Her acting and singing career spans like 40 years. She’s not opera. Try her disco hit with Donna Summer “enough is enough” anything from her amazing movie A star is born/ or “Papa” from Yentl or she did a whole album with Barry Gibb from the BeeGees or I could go on forever….

Please watch her song "My Man" from the 1965 TV special "My name is Barbra" please

I love her Piece of Sky, and Somewhere, and Evergreen. Cheers

You should do her duet with Barry Gibb, “Guilty” & “What kind of fool” the performance with them dressed in white! Give it up for Barbara the legend!

I say Barbra Streisand is The Greatest Star.

she is a living legend, one of a kind artist❤

I highly recommend you to react to A piece of sky which is one of her most iconic song. Its final note is epic !

Barbra is a national treasure. No one else can compare. My favorite song of her's is One Less Bell to Answer/A House is Not a Home. Duet with herself. Its outstanding.

One of her big hits was THE WAY WE WERE, she also starred in the film of the same name along with Robert Redford.

You picked a good song. I believe she had 50 something songs that hit the Billboard Hot 100 and had 5 #1 singles and 13 top 10 hits. She has had songs on the r & b charts, country charts, pop charts, and had several disco hits that hit the disco top 10. I think you would probably enjoy her disco duet with Donna Summer called No More Tears that hit #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 and on the Disco Charts or her song called Woman in Love which was written and produced by Barry Gibb from the Bee Gees. That song hit #1 in about 20 countries and was her biggest worldwide hit. She has been an actress in numerous movies, the one most of the younger generation remember her for is called Meet The Fockers. She won the Acdemy Award for best actress for her first movie called Funny Girl. She has had a #1 album on the Billboard Hot 100 in every decade since 1964 when the Beatles first became known and successful in the United States. A lot of female singers look up to her as the first artist to do it all in a male dominated world. It's a huge rabbit hole but you will not be disappointed, the song you reacted to was from 1982 and was one of her lesser known songs.

This is from the mid 80s! Her vibrato is unmatched! She's the greatest singer ever!

Oh are you in for the ride of your life, Ace. There isn't a bad song in this woman's repertoire. She is considered by many as the GOAT and she has sung just about every genre out there. You're about a decade off on this one... it was released in 1981. Barbra is the only artist ever to chart an album at #1 in SIX consecutive decades. Her acting (both comedy and drama), and directing career is just as impressive. I've just subscribed to your channel and hope to see more Barbra reactions from you. You are about to embark down a truly remarkable rabbit hole. As Barry Gibb once said...'There's the 10 best singers in the world, and then there's Barbra Streisand.' Pretty much sums it up.

She is Broadway baby, all the way!!!

Barbra Streisand has her roots in Broadway. Many of her songs come out of that genre, including this song that came from "Cats" in the early 80s. Check out No More Tears (Enough Is Enough) a disco song by Barbra Streisand and Donna Summer

Barbra Is the Best!!! ❤❤❤❤❤

Nor just a singer, a film star as well. One of tbe biggest in America history 😊❤

Matchless. Unparalleled. Biggest female box office star of the 70s/80s.

Please. Do you need to listen to a lot of Her songs but I think this song is called "Memory" Check out the song "Somewhere" And the whole thing album she did with andy gibb called "Guilty!"

Easily the best singer of a generation.

This woman is Amazing shes also an actress but her voice 1 of a kind.i saw her i was 14 teen ill never forget i was mezmerized with her it was in the theater yes in the 70s im 65 and she still mt number 1 singer i went back to see her 7 times.

Hi Ace. So glad you got introduced to Babs. She has so many great songs it's hard to list them. A few songs I suggest include Left in the Dark, What are you doing the rest of your Life, Prisoner, Splish Splash, Niagara, With one more look at you/Watch closely Now, Woman in the Moon, The Best We Could, All in love is Fair and You and I. Thanks.

In 1963 at the age of 21, Barbra released her first album. A couple of weeks ago, she was awarded the Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg Women in Leadership award. She did a buttload of stuff between these two events. See internet for details. 😊

Her roots are in Broadway, but she's done everything from jazz-inflected pop to mainstream pop to disco and has had a #1 pop album from the 60s on, the only artist to have accomplished that....This song is from the early 80s, the musical Cats. Everybody from Jennifer Hudson to Barry Manilow has sung it but IMO this is the definitive version (with apologies to Elaine Paige)

Not opera, this is musical theater, and this song is from Cats. Miss Streisand is theater, pop, and contemporary. She has the rare EGOT, and well deserved.

Sorry for the late comment - just ran across your channel. Barbara Streisand is an EGOT - a winner of an Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, and Tony award. There are only 18 EGOTs so it's kind of a big deal. There are so, so many songs of hers that are amazing, but if you want to hear her hold a note, try On a Clear Day (You Can See Forever), from the movie of the same name. At the end, that note goes on forever. I'm sure there are others, but I remember that one particularly.

This song is from the early eighties, 1981, and that vibrating sound you correctly noted in her voice is a standard Western singing technique called vibrato. And you seemed to have a positive response to an instrument that came in toward the end of the song at the end of the line, "Touch me. It's so easy to leave me all alone with the memory of my days in the sun." That instrument is an oboe.

May I suggest two duo's that she done, one with Celine Dion and Tell Him, and she also done another with the late and great Donna Summers No More Tears ( Enough is Enough) incredible talent.

Not an opera singer. She is the best singer ever!

4 octaves of flawless voice. No auto-tune here.

The GOAT!

She’s incomparable! The greatest artist alone in her league. Singer, actress, songwriter, director, name it she does it all.

You should watch Funny Girl. You will be amazed at what a good all round performer she is.

Been singing since the sixties. When she was a teen she recorded herself in one of those booths that were around at the time and sent it in ... Cheers.

this song was released in November 1981 to promote The Broadway arrival of the Musical Cats.

The most versatile pop singer who ever stepped in front of a microphone.

Beautiful voice!!

She's not an opera singer, but she does have a fantastic voice. She has so many great songs, you won't be sorry.

Pure Art…

Simply the goat! The absolute best!

Threat yourself and watch the One less bell to answer/ A house is not home Medley that Barbra Streisand did live, it’s basically perfect

I personally would not choose this song as an introduction to Barbra Streisand, unless they were into Broadway showtunes, as this song is from Cats, the Broadway musical. Depending on the listener... I would recommend No More Tears (slow/upbeat), The Way We Were (ballad), Woman In Love (more upbeat), Somewhere (it's a showtune but done in a different way), Evergreen (ballad).

She sings every genre, clasic pop, pop, broadway, jazz classical, rock, bossa nova, disco etc! This is 1980s.

This is from the Broadway show, Cats, so not really opera. She's performed in the musicals Hello Dolly, Funny Girl, Funny Lady, and Yentl, so you could say this is mainly the style of music she's most known for. But she's also done a lot of pop and disco. She's even done duets with Donna Summer, Barry Gibb, Celine Dion, Neil Diamond, and Kris Kristofferson. Cats came out in 1981, so it was likely written in the late 70s by Andrew Lloyd Weber. Barbra released this version of this song on her Broadway album in 1985.

By now I’m sure you’ve learned that what Barbra is singing is musical theater and not opera. There’s a whole lifetime of her work as an actor, director, producer and especially as a singer. Check out “Woman In Love,” written by Barry Gibb.

Great reaction! Definitely NOT opera. Broadway. Lol. You are sweet. Subscribing for this one! And this is early 80s. Haha. Ok... Off by Barbra soap box! Definitely keep digging into some more Streisand! Highly recommend so many songs! Ordinary Miracles is my all time favorite!

singer, actor, director, producer, philanthropist, and activist she also released 36 albums one of which while not opera is fully classical, her personal take on classical and operatic pieces called Classical Barbra

Its not opera, its streisand

We had SINGERS back in the day. Today all we have are performers...

The Way We Were and Evergreen are musts! 💔❤️

The song is from the Broadway musical 'Cats'. The character in that musical who sings the song is an elderly female cat named 'Grizabella the Glamour Cat'. A cat who has seen better days during her youth, and is approaching the time when she must either die, or be chosen to be the cat who is awarded a new life to ascend to the Everlasting Cat, to be born into a new Jellical life. Wonderful musical. You should look it up.

You should check out Tell Him the duet she did with Celine Dion. Its amazing

This song is from the musical, Cats. It debuted in 1981 with Elaine Paige performing Memory.

I had flashes ✨✨✨ of Judy Garland singing in Oz.

Barry Gibb of the Bee Gees wrote an produced her album Guilty. He sings on it too.

I HIGHLY recommend you react to Piece of Sky by Barbra. She SAAAANGS on it and holds the last note for 20 years. She is still holding it right now.

With all due respect to the fabulous Barbra Streisand, she is most definitely NOT an opera singer (take it from an opera singer). However her voice is so versatile and may I add gorgeous, that she has sung almost every other style successfully. She began get career as a Broadway belter, transitioned into a pop chanteuse, dabbled in disco, and sang others. She is one of the few recipients of the elusive EGOT (Emmy, Grammy, Oscar and Tony). A true natural talent, she is very "at home" here singing the hit song from Andrew Lloyd Weber's hit musical, "Cats".

Barbra epic - no words ❤ Love from Austria/Europe 🇦🇹

I love to see your reactions when you hear songs that you haven't heard before when I've been listening to them for most of my life. There are so many great songs from the past, I'm so pleased that you are discovering them now.

Listen to woman in Love, tell him, Enough is Enough. Soooo many great songs

Yes........ She is a singer.......... She sings............... You are brilliant. Great insight. No one ever knew what she was doing before now.............. So it's singing......And it is not Opera ..... Wow........Just Wow.

LO l, she had a lot of jazz and pop in a repertoire.

The song is from "CATS" the Broadway show.

It seems incredible now but her first singing job came when she won an open mike night at the New York gay bar "The Lion" in 1960 and it was a swift ascent from there, beginning with nightclubs to a small scene stealing role in a Broadway show then her first album (which won a Grammy for Album of the Year) to starring in the Broadway hit "Funny Girl", a series of hugely successful television specials, followed by her recreating the role in the film version of Funny Girl (and winning an Oscar for Best Actress-shared with Katharine Hepburn in the only tie in the category's history) becoming a Top 10 box office star for the remainder of the 60's into the 70's. After that she only made films intermittently focusing more on her recording career. She is the only female to have charted an album in the Top 20 in every decade between the 1960's through the 2020's. Obviously her catalog is vast so the easiest way to begin a journey of discovery of her magic is to check out her biggest hits and then dig deeper. You chose well with this as your first, it's a fine spotlight of her strengths. I'd suggest the next songs to check out are her five that went to #1 on the charts-"The Way We Were" which was the theme song of one of her biggest film successes (she was again nominated for Best Actress for the film), "Evergreen" (which she co-wrote), "Woman in Love", "You Don't Bring Me Flowers" (a duet with Neil Diamond) and "No More Tears" (a duet with Donna Summer). That's just scratching the surface though.

Great reaction, thanks. Barbra is one of those singers you can't play in the background - you either have to listen or turn her off. I've been listening for close to seventy years, many of my friends just can't. Recommending tracks is hard, there are so many. Here are a few from the 1960s on: He Touched Me - 1967 kzfaq.info/get/bejne/qL-EnJCFvrPSqmw.html One Less Bell to Answer/A House is Not a Home - 1971 kzfaq.info/get/bejne/fduWna6SpsyVhH0.html “Evergreen” from A Star Is Born” - 1976 kzfaq.info/get/bejne/q8p8mLKA3pzJnWg.html Send In The Clowns - 1986 kzfaq.info/get/bejne/fKuSlMmHmLaqpYU.html Tell Him (duet with Céline Dion) - 1997 kzfaq.info/get/bejne/rrGHityAkqmWn2Q.html It Had To Be You (duet with Michael Buble) - 2014 kzfaq.info/get/bejne/d7qTiMyqp8evmIE.html

She did a duet with Barry Gibb. As a matter of fact, he and his brothers, wrote the songs for her album, Guilty. (1980) The album turned out to be her biggest-selling album. I guess so! The brothers wrote the songs. 😁 Guilty kzfaq.info/get/bejne/nphnfcJqmrXYgXU.html

She’s going back into the studio to record in January according to her friend and associate Jay Landers.

Barbra Streisand/Prisoner - Theme to the Motion Picture Soundtrack Eyes Of Laura Mars😮😊

I think this was in the late 80’s - Streisand’s voice is hard to beat.

React to the guilty album with Barry Gibb.

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Check out "who will buy"

She’s not an opera singer, she’s a broadway singer👀

and songwriter

This is not opera. The vibration you are referring to is called vibrato.

This is from Broadway "Cats."

Hey bro how about the best singer in the world called, Dimaah Kudaibergen-singing, ‘SOS”, (the Slavic bizarre performance)?

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Vibrato.

Did all the interests of the legends start after the movie of Elton John and Queen and Freddie Mercury? Bc I’m really surprised that some gen z are not familiar with these legends and been around for 50 years. Kind of shows many of the younger generations were not interested in artist from he past. It’s sad bc with smart phones and internet at everyone’s fingertips and could research these artists. What are the youth using the phones for? To just get on tic tok and fb?!

This is not opera, it is a show tune.

In 1977 Barbara released Streisand Superman, which is one of her most eclectic collections of songs if you think she sounds like an opera singer listen to her to rock in a song called. Don’t believe it.

Tom Jones. Richard Burton.

Antonio Banderas

watch Funny Girl

Do yourself a favor and sooner rather than later, listen to her sing Woman in Love b

Off a little...Broadway 2 album ... late 80s.

Andrew loyyd Webber I think.

1980s

Opera?? Noooooooooooooooo

This would have been sung by a female dressed as a cat.