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Barbra Streisand is keeping her fans fed, announcing a brand new studio album less than a year after the release of "My Name Is Barbra," a tell-all memoir chronicling her decades-long career in the entertainment industry.

Hozier has said that it was a "huge honour" to record a duet of The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face with Barbra Streisand for her new album.