Diana Streisand: What Happened To Barbra Streisand's Mother?

Diana Streisand is the mother of American singer, actress, and director Barbra Streisand. Diana’s daughter Barbra’s career spans more than six decades. She has achieved success in multiple fields of entertainment and is among the few performers awarded an Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, and Tony (EGOT). Diana is also the mother of actress and songwriter Roslyn Kind.

Diana Streisand: Bio Summary

Diana Ida (née Rosen) was born on 10 December 1908, in Brooklyn, Kings County (Brooklyn), New York, USA to Russian émigrés. Her parents are Louis Rosen and Esther Etlin Rosen. Her parents were from the Russian Empire, where her father had been a cantor.

Diana Streisand’s father was a part-time cantor and also a tailor by trade. She loved singing from an early age. She had been a soprano in her youth and wanted to have a career in music. She became a school secretary instead. Much is still unknown about her childhood.

Diana Streisand appeared as herself on the TV Series Your New Day, Hour Magazine, Good Morning America, and Barbra: The Concert, per her IMDb profile. She met Emanuel Streisand and the duo soon began a romantic relationship. After dating for some time, they got married.

Diana Streisand and Emanuel Streisand eventually got married on December 24, 1930, in a beautiful wedding ceremony in front of family and loved ones. Emanuel was a high-school teacher. Diana and Emanuel gave birth to Sheldon Streisand and Barbra Streisand.

Diana Streisand and Emanuel Streisand were married until Emanuel passed away. Emanuel died on 4 August 1943, at age 35 from complications from an epileptic seizure, possibly the result of a head injury years earlier.

After Emanuel died, Diana had to hold her family together. The family fell into near poverty. She became a low-paid bookkeeper. She kept herself busy to provide for her family, but it resulted in a rather distant mothering style that left permanent emotional scars on her childhood, especially Barbra Streisand.

Diana Streisand’s daughter Barbra Streisand recalled: “When I wanted love from my mother, she gave me food”. Diana married again. On December 23, 1950, she got married to businessman Louis Kind, who was reportedly 16 years her senior. They gave birth to Roslyn Kind.

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Diana Streisand’s husband Louis Kind didn’t treat her well. Barbra Streisand had an intense dislike for her stepfather because of how he treated her mom. However, Diana and Louis’ marriage collapsed. Diana had a “great voice” and sang semi-professionally on occasion.

Diana Streisand and her daughter Barbra Streisand had recorded some songs on tape. Barbra revealed she didn’t get the attention and love she craved from her mother. She once confessed that she thought her mother Diana Streisand was jealous of her success.

Diana Streisand was unloving towards her daughter. Barbra said: ‘I think sometimes there are parents who don’t really like themselves. They don’t like their offspring either. My mother meant well. She loved me as best she could. She had dreams of her own and she wanted to be a singer.’ Was she jealous?

‘Yes. And that was staggering for me to learn. She never praised me to my face but I have a feeling she praised me to other people. And she wasn’t a toucher. She never hugged me or said words like, “I love you”.’

However, Barbra credits her mom for her career, as she believed her mom pushed her to be her best. “I was always trying to prove to her that I was worthy of being somebody”.

Barbra played her mother’s record to her audience while on a tour in 2012. She said: ‘She had a beautiful voice. And we played her so that I could finally say, “Ma, you finally made it. You’re singing in front of thousands of people.”

She always said she was too shy. When I was 13 we used to have a week’s vacation every year in the Catskill Mountains and that’s when my mother hired a pianist so she could make this record. I had a good voice too.

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‘On the block I was known as the girl with the good voice and no father. That was my identity tag. We made these funny recordings when I was 13. I suppose you have to go through these turbulent times. She motivated me to prove I was worth it.’

What Happened To Diana Streisand?

Diana Streisand died on 27 March 2002, at age 93, in Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, California, USA. She died of complications after an accident at home. She has suffered from Alzheimer’s Disease. She was buried at Mount Hebron Cemetery Flushing, Queens County, New York, USA.

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