Barbra Streisand Reveals The Stage Name Bosses Wanted Her To Have When She First Started Out

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Barbra Streisand is a name known around the world, but the singer admitted people wanted her to be called something else when she first started out.

The singer, 79, who is the only artist ever to have a number one album in six consecutive decades, told Jimmy Fallon on Tuesday’s “Tonight Show”: “People wanted me to be called Barbara Sands.

I thought, What? No. Streisand is my name. I don’t want to change it.” RELATED: Prince Charles Shares ‘Special Memories’ Of Meeting A ‘Dazzling’ Barbra Streisand As A Young Man Streisand, who has been busy promoting her latest album, Release Me 2, also said of her first album: “For my first record they wanted me to call it Sweet and Saucy Streisand.