'She threw her head back, sang her heart out and knocked New York on its ear,' Joanne Stang wrote of Streisand in her 1964 New York Times review. Her second job, as the 1920s comedy star Fanny Brice in the musical Funny Girl, changed popular culture, launching Streisand to super stardom as both a vocalist and actor. While ambivalent about a pop career in the early 1960s, Streisand nevertheless sang at New York City nightclubs before landing her first Broadway theater role. Funny Girl, Broadway Cast Album (Capitol Records, 1964)Īny number of doors - the blues, gospel, r&b, country, rap, rock and roll, even opera - can lead to pop music.
