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., In 1973, when the singer was creating her innovative TV special “Barbra Streisand … and Other Musical Instruments,” which matched her voice to a sitar as well as a cacophony of household appliances, she performed a standout duet with Ray Charles on “Crying Time.” “You could feel everything about Ray in his voice — his capacity to , 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..