Barbra Streisand Reveals How She Holds a Note So Long
She discussed the “Streisand Method” of singing during an exclusive SiriusXM Town Hall.
What’s Barbra Streisand’s vocal technique? Just singing her heart out.
The stage and screen icon celebrated the re-launch of SiriusXM’s limited-run The Barbra Streisand Channel with a special Town Hall hosted by her “Encore: Movie Partners Sing Broadway” collaborator, Patrick Wilson, and she sounded off on everything from her career to politics.
“See, I don’t understand anything intellectual about the voice. Meaning, somebody asked me many years ago, I think I was 18, ‘How do you hold the note so long?’ I said, ‘Because I want to,'” she said as the crowd of SiriusXM listeners laughed. “And then some guy came up to me at some party, says, ‘You know, I teach the Streisand Method.’ I swear. I said, ‘What is that, because I’d love you to teach me what the Streisand Method is.'”
Streisand’s Town Hall premieres at 5pm ET on September 7 on The Barbra Streisand Channel.
