• Barbra Streisand will be the first musical artist to receive the award.
• The “Woman in Love” singer expressed her gratitude on social media on Wednesday.
• Streisand released an album titled Live at the Bon Soir in November.

Barbra Streisand will be the first musical artist to receive the Woman of Leadership Award from Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.

The “Woman in Love” singer expressed her gratitude on social media on Wednesday for the honour, which will be presented by the Library of Congress on April 22.

“I am deeply honored to receive this award named after one of the iconic and pathbreaking Justices ever to serve on the Supreme Court,” Streisand tweeted Wednesday.

I am deeply honored to receive this award named after one of the iconic and pathbreaking Justices ever to serve on the Supreme Court. https://t.co/1QDV0obPAV

— Barbra Streisand (@BarbraStreisand) February 22, 2023

Per the Washington Post, the late Supreme Court judge was a fan of Streisand, 80.

“Women everywhere have benefited from the brilliance and courage of the Hon. Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg,” Streisand said in a statement to the Washington Post. “She is an inspiration to us all. She devoted her life to advancing equality and justice, and the world is a better place for it. I am so deeply honored to receive an award in the name of such an extraordinary woman, American hero and an icon to the world.”

Queen Elizabeth II, fashion designer Diane von Furstenberg, and justice reform advocate Agnes Gund are among the previous honorees.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg is a Supreme Court Justice. Woman of Leadership honours “an extraordinary woman who has exercised a positive and notable influence on society and served as an exemplary role model in both principles and practice.”

“She wanted to honor women of great passion and achievement,” Ginsburg’s friend Julie Opperman said to the outlet. “She wanted it to be women in the RBG tradition. I’m pleased to say Barbra Streisand was among them.”

Streisand released an album titled Live at the Bon Soir in November, which was supposed to be her debut album after signing with Columbia Records in 1962. That year, she recorded the songs in a tiny Greenwich Village nightclub. “I had never even been in a nightclub until I sang in one,” the singer said in the record’s liner notes. “I sang two songs in a talent contest at a little club called The Lion and won, which led to being hired at a more sophisticated supper club around the corner called the Bon Soir, with an actual stage and a spotlight.”

She continued, “The buzz that began at the Bon Soir led to a contract with Columbia Records in 1962, the start of a long association that continues to this day. The initial plan for my first album was to record it at the club, and these early tapes have been sleeping in my vault for six decades. I’m delighted to finally bring them out into the light and share what could have been my debut album, Live at the Bon Soir.”

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