Martin Lee “Marty” Erlichman, Barbra Streisand‘s supervisor for greater than six many years, died on Oct. 31. He was 97.
Erlichman’s demise was as a result of “age-related causes,” a press launch issued on Sunday (Nov. 1) states.
As an leisure supervisor, Erlichman is credited with discovering Streisand and serving to to form and information her profession for the reason that early Sixties.
Erlichman was born in Brooklyn, New York, on Sept. 13, 1929, and is an alumni of Drake College in Des Moines, Iowa. He’s the recipient of each an Emmy Award and a Peabody Award for his work as government producer of the 1994 HBO tv particular Barbra: The Live performance.
He first encountered Streisand when she was 19 years previous and singing because the opening act for comic Phil Leeds at Bon Soir nightclub in Greenwich Village. Streisand has recalled that her soon-to-be new supervisor advised her he obtained chills the second he heard her vocals; she felt comfy with him instantly, feeling he “validated all my goals” whereas being “like a man from my previous neighborhood. Seems he grew up close to me in Brooklyn. We spoke the identical language.”
He helped her safe her first recording contract, with Columbia Data. Streisand is grateful he negotiated giving her inventive management on her repertoire and album covers, “an unprecedented contract for a first-timer.”
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“Though Marty lived a protracted and full life, nothing can put together you for the fact of shedding somebody so expensive,” Streisand mentioned in an announcement following Erlichman’s passing. “I actually thought he would reside ceaselessly. In my eyes, he was merely indestructible — all the time by my facet, by means of every part. And we by no means even had a contract. Marty can by no means get replaced, and I shall be ceaselessly grateful for his friendship, loyalty, and unwavering assist.”
Streisand additionally mentioned, “A number of weeks in the past, he was making an attempt to persuade me to go on tour, and advised me he’d be there each step of the best way. I do know it’s extraordinarily uncommon for present enterprise relationships to endure for so long as mine did with Marty. He trusted me, and I trusted him. This can be a difficult enterprise, however I all the time felt protected with Marty by my facet.”
An announcement from Erlichman’s household reads, “To the world, he was an enormous of Hollywood; to us, he was a deeply devoted and loving father, husband, grandfather, and rock. We really feel his loss deeply however are endlessly happy with the life he lived and the indelible mark he left on the world.”
All through his profession in administration — with The Clancy Brothers, Tommy Makem and Gary Puckett & The Union Hole amongst his different music artist purchasers, and extra purchasers together with comic/actor Chevy Chase, heavyweight boxing champion George Foreman and file producer/songwriter Bob Crewe — Erlichman additionally labored as a movie producer, with credit together with Streisand’s 1974 comedy For Pete’s Sake; psychological thriller Coma (1978), starring Michael Douglas, and romantic thriller Breathless (1983), starring Richard Gere.
Erlichman is survived by his spouse of 52 years, Miko Mayama Erlichman, in addition to son J.J. Erlichman (who’s a tour and manufacturing supervisor) and daughter-in-law Talia, and 4 grandchildren: Mia, Sarah, Olivia, and Jack. His household plans to carry a non-public service to honor his life.
Donations could also be made in Erlichman’s honor to St. Jude Youngsters’s Analysis Hospital or the Nationwide Kidney Basis in lieu of flowers.
