Janis Joplin, American singer who was the premier white female blues vocalist of the 1960s. She dazzled listeners with her raw blues-soaked voice and her fierce and uninhibited musical style. Her best-known songs included ‘Piece of My Heart’ and ‘Me a
Janis Joplin: Days & Summers 'Her voice was so powerful it would cut through a rock... Right away we knew she was the one. We said to her, 'We're working next weekend, hope you're ready.'- Peter Albin, Big Brother and the Holding Company ...
Self - Janis Joplin & The Full Tilt Boogie Band (archive footage), Performer ("Cry Baby", "Ain't No More Cane", "Tell Mama", "Me & Bobby McGee") $12K $1.2MM $1.3MM Janis and John (2003) Arranger ("Down On Me" (Live)), Performer ("Down On Me" (Live), "Kozmic ...
'Janis: Little Girl Blue': Inside the New Joplin Doc How Amy Berg got singer's friends, family and forgotten lovers to open up about the legendary Sixties blues singer Music By David Browne Janis Joplin's Siblings Recall Summer of Love Family Trip in New Doc "Moby Grape let [Big...
Presents the letters which Janis Joplin wrote to her family, chronicling her rise to stardom. Excerpts from the book 'Love, Janis,' by Laura Joplin, Janis' younger sister; Joplin's death at the age of twenty-seven from an accidental heroin overdose; Bands she played with; Songs which ...
Janis: I never fit into what other people thought I should. Maybe a bit of that set me free and allowed me to be who I was, but I didn’t have any of that grounding naturally as a family, grounding with friendships. The only thing that really grounded me was my ability to put pen...
Singer Janis Joplin rose to fame in the late 1960s and was known for her powerful, blues-inspired vocals. She died of an accidental drug overdose in 1970.
Janis Joplin did not initially see herself as a big-time performer or a major talent. But in 1966, when she first teamed up with a real rock band she had met through friends, Joplin had a kind of epiphany. Chet Helms, a fellow Texan and one of San Francisco’s music promoters, intro...
, exciting, sometimes calamitous, also had a family, a love life, an education, a childhood . . . Not in that order, certainly not in any state of order. But commemorated and often touchingly detailed here, with help from scrapbooks, photos, letters and Joplin’s own family....