New Zealand Woman’s Weekly

Thanks for the Memories THE BEST OF BABS!

She sings, she acts – and she doesn’t suffer fools! Barbra Streisand turns 80 on April 24 and the legendary diva still has the world at her feet. To celebrate her milestone, we uncover seven facts you might not know about the sensational and soon-to-be-minted octogenarian.

A STAR WAS BORN

‘I didn’t sing and charge people for 27 years because of that night’

Barbra was born in Brooklyn in 1942 and her English

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