Perhaps the new piece closest to Streisand’s heart is with Laufey, a 26-year-old Icelandic musician. The lyrics to “Letter to My 13 Year Old Self” let each artist look back, and nurture, their past inner teens. When she was 13, Streisand said, her teacher asked her to write her autobiography, a treasure she has kept. “It’s going to the Library of Congress,” she said, adding ruefully, “if there is a Library of Congress.” Streisand was also 13 when she cut her first amateur record, at which point she discovered she could play around with a melody. “That was my first improvisation!” she said., Streisand’s passion for duets began, in part, after seeing the 1955 movie version of “Guys and Dolls.” “That’s when I fell in love with Marlon Brando!” she said. “I wanted to be Jean Simmons,” his romantic partner for several songs in the film. Streisand said her breakthrough duet with Diamond foreshadowed her role as a film , Barbra Streisand has revealed the curious way that Bob Dylan requested to sing a duet with her. Streisand’s upcoming duet album, The Secret Of Life: Partners, Volume Two, set for release on June 27th, is the long-awaited sequel to her 2014 duets collection, Partners. It will feature the likes of Paul McCartney, Bob Dylan, and Hozier..