Barbra Streisand

Released: October 14, 1975

Songwriter: Dave Grusin Marilyn Bergman Alan Bergman

Producer: Jeffrey Lesser Rupert Holmes

A child is born
We've suddenly stepped through
A thousand doors
A child is born
Her chin is like mine
But her eyes are yours

How perfectly formed are her fingers
So far reach, so much to know
What words will be formed by her fingers
We'll hold her close, then let her go

How sweet to find
A part of ourselves
We knew nothing of
A child is born
A child that is born of our love

Barbra Streisand is an Oscar-winning, Tony-winning, Emmy-winning, Golden Globe-winning Broadway legend, film star, movie director and one of the biggest-selling recording artists of all time - a staggering amount of accomplishments for someone whose mother insisted she not to go into show business.

By the time she was sixteen, she’d graduated high school and was living on her own in Manhattan. After winning a talent contest at a gay bar on West 9th Street, Streisand’s ‘spellbinding’ voice quickly became popular at New York clubs and in Broadway shows. After appearances on a number of popular television shows including The Tonight Show, Streisand signed with Columbia Records and released several top 10 albums in the 1960s, scoring two US top 40 hits with “People” and “Second Hand Rose”.

Her success as a recording artist continued through the 1970s with several more gold/platinum-certified albums and four US “You Don’t Bring Me Flowers”, “No More Tears”, the Oscar-winning “The Way We Were”, and the Academy Award-winning “Evergreen (Love Theme from A Star Is Born)”. The 1980s would begin with Streisand’s biggest-selling release of her career Guilty, a collaborative effort with BeeGees member Barry Gibb. It topped the albums chart in several countries and as did its lead single “Woman In Love”.

more tracks from the album

Lazy Afternoon

From the albums

Lazy Afternoon (1975)
For Our Children (1991)
Every Child Deserves A Lifetime: Songs From The For Our Children Series (1991)

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