Yes, its the last line in her official bio, but seconds into a conversation with entertainer Roslyn Kind, its pretty easy to forget that she currently resides in Los Angeles and has done so since 1973.

She has a voice, she has a demeanour, she has an attitude that is pure, 100-proof, bustling streets of New York City. Proudly.

I still am, Kind says via telephone from a stop in North Carolina. I still have my Brooklyn accent, Im a fast talker and a fast walker.

Ill never lose who I am and who I grew up as.

Her upbringing tends to be the thing that many people focus on, perhaps, as a detriment and insult to everything else on that otherwise impressive resume of hers one thats filled with Broadway and off-Broadway productions, TV and film roles and album releases. That, of course, is that Brooklyn upbringing as the younger, half-sister of famous artist Barbra Streisand.

Its a shadow and relationship that Kind, or Rozzie, certainly doesnt shy away from, even sharing the stage with her sister during Streisands massive North American tour in 2012 which was called, appropriately enough, Back to Brooklyn and European dates in 2013, including the 02 Arena in London.

But, as she says, that elder sibling relationship is only a small part of who she is.

Shes an inspiration to everybody and as well as to me. Shes always been an inspiration, Kind says. And the rest of my inspirations come from what my roots are, what I was taught by my family, and from God above.

Tuesday night, the entertainer will do more work on His behalf, when she returns to Calgary for a fundraising performance for Jewish Family Service Calgary at the Beth Tzedec Synagogue.

It will be the first time in over two decades that shell be in the city, where she actually spent a good chunk of time, performing the lead role of Ellie Greenwich in a Stage West production of Leader of the Pack, from April to August in 1988.

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