Tag: janis
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How Janis Joplin Became The Singer Who Wouldn’t Settle
Janis made it sound as if fighting the urge to settle was the most natural thing to her. But deep down inside there had always been the yearning for doing exactly that: getting the house, the white picket fence and the husband. They had been the middle-class hopes of her mother, Dorothy, who herself had…
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The singer who screamed a very American pain – Janis Joplin
With her raw, anguished voice, Joplin – who would have been 75 this month – was a hippy icon. But on Piece of My Heart she became something darker still When did pop first show that it had the capacity to feel bad? Not bad in the sense of feeling blue or worried or cross or cray-zee, or…
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Janis Joplin
Feminine icon of the Summer of Love and member of the 27 Club, Janis Joplin stamped the music industry with her rebellious attitude and tremendous husky voice. Let’s look back into the short and turbulent life of the woman who became a rock legend. Texas childhood Janis Lyn Joplin was born on January 19th, in Port Arthur, Texas. She…