1. Janis Joplin - Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia Janis Joplin was born to Seth and Dorothy (East) Joplin 2; her father was an engineer at Texaco, her mother, registrar at a business college. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janis_Joplin

Janis Joplin From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation search This article needs additional citations for verification Please help improve this article by adding reliable references . Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. (December 2007) Janis Joplin Janis Joplin, San Jose, California, 1968 Background information Birth name Janis Lyn Joplin Born January 19 Port Arthur Texas U.S. Died October 4 Los Angeles California U.S. ... hard rock Occupation(s) Singer songwriter arranger Instrument(s) ... maracas Years active Label(s) Columbia Associated acts Website http://www.officialjanis.com/ Janis Lyn Joplin January 19 October 4 ) was an American singer, songwriter, and music arranger, from Port Arthur, Texas . She rose to prominence in the late 1960s as the lead singer of Big Brother and the Holding Company , and later a solo career. In 2004, Rolling Stone magazine ranked Joplin #46 on their list of the 100 Greatest Artists of All Time. Her career continued until her death in Los Angeles, California of a drug overdose, at the age of 27. Contents Biography Early life University Career ... edit Biography edit Early life Janis Joplin was born to Seth and Dorothy (East) Joplin ; her father was an engineer at Texaco , her mother, registrar at a business college. She had two younger siblings, Michael and Laura. As a teenager, she befriended a group of outcasts, including Jim Langdon and Grant Lyons, the latter of whom played her the

2. Janis Joplin Janis Joplin brought her powerful, bluesy voice from Texas to San Francisco’s psychedelic scene, where she went from drifter to superstar. http://www.rockhall.com/inductee/janis-joplin

Visitor Info About Us Hours/Admission Transit/Parking ... Shop Janis Joplin Induction Year: 1995 Induction Category: Performer "Inductee: Janis Joplin (vocals; born January 19, 1943, died October 4, 1970) Janis Joplin brought her powerful, bluesy voice from Texas to San Francisco’s psychedelic scene, where she went from drifter to superstar. She has been called “the greatest white urban blues and soul singer of her generation.” Joplin’s vocal intensity proved a perfect match for the high-energy music of Big Brother and the Holding Company, resulting in a mix of blues, folk and psychedelic rock. Joplin’s tenure with Big Brother may have been brief, lasting only from 1966 to 1968, but it yielded a pair of albums that included the milestone Cheap Thrills . Moreover, her performance with Big Brother at 1967’s Monterey International Pop Festival, a highlight of the film documentary Monterey Pop , is among the great performances in rock history. In the words of biographer Myra Friedman, “It wasn’t only her voice that thrilled, with its amazing range and strength and awesome wails. To see her was to be sucked into a maelstrom of feeling that words can barely suggest.” She was a dynamic singer who shred her vocal cords on driving psychedelic rockers like “Combination of the Two” and then deliver a delicate, empathetic reading of George Gershwin’s “Summertime.” Joplin was born in 1943 in Port Arthur, Texas, an oil-refining town on the coast. Growing up, she was a social outcast who found an outlet in music. Joplin was drawn to blues (Odetta

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4. Janis Joplin Janis Joplin Big Brother and the Holding Company Vocalist 196668 The Kozmic Blues Band Vocalist 1968-69 The Full-Tilt Boogie Band Vocalist 1970 http://www.nndb.com/people/212/000022146/

This is a beta version of NNDB Search: All Names Living people Dead people Band Names Book Titles Movie Titles Full Text for Janis Joplin AKA Janis Lyn Joplin Born: 19-Jan Birthplace: Port Arthur, TX Died: 4-Oct Location of death: 7047 Franklin Ave, Hollywood, CA Cause of death: Accident - Overdose Remains: Cremated, Scattered in Pacific Ocean Gender: Female Race or Ethnicity: White Sexual orientation: Bisexual Occupation: Singer Nationality: United States Executive summary: Ball and Chain (Piece of My Heart) Father: Seth Joplin (oil refinery worker) Boyfriend: Kris Kristofferson Boyfriend: Country Joe McDonald (musician) Boyfriend: Seth Morgan (engaged, at the time of her death) Girlfriend: Janis Ian Slept with: Dick Cavett Slept with: Eric Clapton Slept with: Leonard Cohen Slept with: Jimi Hendrix Slept with: Howard Hesseman Slept with: Jim Morrison Slept with: Joe Namath Slept with: Peggy Caserta Slept with: Bob Seidemann (rock photographer) High School: Thomas Jefferson High School, Port Arthur, TX (1960) University: Lamar State College University: University of Texas Janis Joplin Big Brother and the Holding Company Vocalist 1966-68 The Kozmic Blues Band Vocalist 1968-69 The Full-Tilt Boogie Band Vocalist 1970 Disorderly Conduct Curtis Hall concert at Tampa, FL (15-Nov-1969)

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var britAdCategory = "music"; Already a member? LOGIN Encyclopædia Britannica - the Online Encyclopedia Home Blog Advocacy Board ... Free Trial Britannica Online Content Related to this Topic This Article's Table of Contents Introduction Representative Works Big Brother and the Holding Company The Kozmic Blues Band Janis Joplin and the Full Tilt Boogie Band Janis Joplin ... Print this Table of Contents Shopping New! Britannica Book of the Year The Ultimate Review of 2007. 2007 Britannica Encyclopedia Set (32-Volume Set) Revised, updated, and still unrivaled. New! Britannica 2008 Ultimate DVD/CD-ROM The world's premier software reference source. Janis Joplin Page 1 of 5 born Jan. 19, 1943, Port Arthur, Texas, U.S. died Oct. 4, 1970, Los Angeles, Calif. Janis Joplin. American singer, the premier white female blues vocalist of the 1960s, who dazzled listeners with her fierce and uninhibited musical style. Special Offer! Activate a FREE trial to Britannica Online , your complete (re)search engine for when you need to be right. After an unhappy childhood in a middle-class family in southeastern Texas, Joplin attended Lamar State College of Technology and the University of Texas at Austin before dropping out in 1963 to sing folk songs and especially the blues in Texas clubs. After a long sojourn in San Francisco (during which she abused alcohol and amphetamines), she went back to Texas, only to return to

6. Janis Joplin Janis Lyn Joplin grew up in Port Arthur, Texas listening to the blues. In high school, she started singing them, first at coffee houses throughout Texas, http://classicrock.about.com/od/artistprofilesfj/p/janis_joplin.htm

zGCID=" test0" zGCID=" test0 test4" zJs=10 zJs=11 zJs=12 zJs=13 zc(5,'jsc',zJs,9999999,'') You are here: About Entertainment Classic Rock Classic Rock History ... Artists F - J Janis Joplin Classic Rock Entertainment Classic Rock Essentials ... Help Janis Joplin performs in Tempe, Arizona in October 1969. Email to a friend Print this Page Submit to Digg Elsewhere on the Web Official Web Site Photo Gallery Most Popular Top 500 Songs Top 50 Bands ZZ_Top_Color_3_low_res.jpg Top 10 Classic Rock Albums Janis Joplin From Dave White Your Guide to Classic Rock FREE Newsletter. Sign Up Now! Vital Statistics: Born: January 19, 1943 - Port Arthur, Texas Died: October 4, 1970 - Hollywood, California (heroin overdose) Quote Girl Meets Blues: Janis Lyn Joplin grew up in Port Arthur, Texas listening to the blues. In high school, she started singing them, first at coffee houses throughout Texas, and eventually in southern California and, on the opposite coast, around New York's Greenwich Village. She returned to Texas to give college a try, and became heavily involved with drugs and alcohol. She was an excellent student, but continued to be drawn to the musician's life. In the Company of Big Brother: Joplin had become friends with Chet Helms in Austin in the early '60s. By 1966, Helms was in San Francisco promoting groups like

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8. Janis Joplin Janis Joplin was born January 19th, 1943, in Port Arthur, Texas. Her father was an oil refinery worker and her mother was a registrar at a business college. http://www.classicbands.com/joplin.html

Janis Joplin Janis Joplin was born January 19 th , 1943, in Port Arthur, Texas. Her father was an oil refinery worker and her mother was a registrar at a business college. Though her family was middle-class, as a teenager she showed signs of the unconventional woman she would become. She was something of a loner, and, unlike her siblings and neighbourhood peers, she listened to folk and blues music. Joplin's favourite artists included Odetta, Leadbelly, and Bessie Smith, and she was greatly influenced by them in her own vocal style. By the time she was seventeen, she had decided to become a singer, and left home. At first, Joplin found work in country and western clubs in Houston and other Texas cities with the goal of saving enough money from her gigs for bus fare to California. She enrolled in several different colleges while singing folk songs for little money, but her attempts at continuing her education never lasted long. She also tried living in various communes, and eventually settled in San Francisco for a few years. Ironically, Joplin went back to Texas in early 1966, right before a friend of hers, Chet Helms, became the manager of a new Rock group called "Big Brother and the Holding Company". The band needed a female vocalist, and Helms thought of Joplin. He contacted her and convinced her to return to San Francisco.

9. Janis Joplin - Music On FoxyTunes Planet Janis Joplin was born at St. Mary s Hospital in Port Arthur, Texas, the daughter of Seth Ward Joplin and Dorothy Bonita East. Her father was an engineer at http://www.foxytunes.com/artist/janis_joplin

sign up faq login Search: FoxyTunes.SearchBox.addHint("q","artist or song name"); Genres Tools feedback send artist Janis Joplin Janis Lyn Joplin blues -influenced rock singer and occasional songwriter with a distinctive voic more Janis Lyn Joplin blues -influenced rock singer and occasional songwriter Big Brother and The Holding Company , and two released as a solo artist. Joplin was inducted to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1995. blues for the first time. She began listening to musicians such as Leadbelly Bessie Smith Odetta , and Big Mama Thornton and singing in the local choir . While at Thomas Jefferson High School, she was mostly shunned. Among her high school classmates was another individual destined for stardom: future college and NFL coach Jimmy Johnson. In a 1992 Sports Illustrated profile of his career, Johnson claimed that he gave Janis the high school nickname of "beat weeds." Primarily a painter, in high school she first began singing blues and folk music with friends. Joplin graduated from high school in 1960 and attended the University of Texas at Austin, though she never obtained a degree. One persistent story is of her being nominated in a Fraternity contest "The Ugliest Man on Campus." She lived in a building commonly referred to as "The Ghetto" which was located at 2812 1/2 Nueces Street. The building has been torn down since and replaced with new apartments. The rent was $40 a month when she lived there. more on Wikipedia...

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Janis Joplin aus Wikipedia, der freien Enzyklop¤die Wechseln zu: Navigation Suche Janis Joplin aus der Sicht eines Fans im Jahr 1969 Janis Lyn Joplin 19. Januar in Port Arthur Texas 4. Oktober in Los Angeles ) war eine US-amerikanische S¤ngerin. Inhaltsverzeichnis Leben Big Brother And The Holding Company Kozmic Blues Band Full Tilt Boogie Band ... Bearbeiten Leben Janis Joplin wurde als Tochter von Seth Harald Joplin, eines Mitarbeiters der –lgesellschaft Texaco , und Dorothy Joplin (geb. East) geboren und hatte zwei j¼ngere Geschwister, Michael und Laura. Da sie w¤hrend ihrer Kindheit oft allein war, wandte sie sich fr¼h Kunst und Gedichten zu. Nach ausgiebiger Lekt¼re des Time Magazine begann sie, Blues- und Folk-Musik f¼r sich zu entdecken. Ihren ersten ¶ffentlichen Auftritt hatte sie 1958 im Halfway House. Nachdem sie 1960 ihren High-School -Abschluss bestanden hatte, ging sie im Alter von 17 Jahren von zu Hause fort, um S¤ngerin zu werden. Sie versuchte sich auch an einigen Colleges, brach aber den Besuch immer vorzeitig ab. Ein Jahr sp¤ter hatte sie ein wenig Geld verdient und zog nach Los Angeles Janis Joplin sang, unter anderem begleitet von

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classicrockpage.com Janis Joplin Born: January 19, 1943, Port Arthur, Texas Died: October 4, 1970, Los Angeles, California Age: 27 years Cause of death: Drug Overdose Good Reading: " Love Janis " by Laura Janis " Buried Alive " by Myra Friedman " Going Down With Janis " by Peggy Caserta Good Watching: Photo Gallery " Janis " Documentary (1974) " Monterey Pop Festival " (1967) " Woodstock " (1970) and " The Rose " (1980) Discography: Big Brother and the Holding Company (1967) Greatest Hits (1973) Cheap Thrills (1968) Janis Soundtrack (1974) I Got Dem Ol' Kozmic Blues Again Mama (1969) Anthology (1980) Pearl (1971) Farewell Song (1982) In Concert (1972) Janis (1993) Janis Joplin was the first white female blues/rock singer to emerge in the late 1960's. Her musical influences ranged from Leadbelly to Bessie Smith and Billie Holiday; Joplin's lifestyle mimicking that of Holiday's eerily. She was the first female rocker whose excesses were equal to many of her male counterparts of the era. In a climate of sexual and drug freedom and experimentation, Janis shrugged off the moral and social stigmas for females at the time and indulged openly and excessively in both. Joplin became a rock star at an age when most women at the time were expected to marry and settle down to become housewives. As with everything Janis did, it was full tilt, caution to the wind and anything but the norm or what was expected.

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LIFE Biography Chronology Quotes ... CONTACT Janisjoplin.net was founded in 1998 out of boredom, curiosity about the web, and an insatiable need to know all there is to know about Janis Joplin. My name is Anna and I started this website at sixteen. Len, my co-conspirator, joined me a few months later. He is a graphic designer who lives in Vancouver, and I am a web developer that resides in Chicago. Although a constant work in progress, we are proud of the massive amount of information that we've gathered here. Hopefully, we can preserve the memory of a figure that is slowly being forgotten. This website is for fans by fans and a non-profit passion project. Enjoy. Update 11.5.2007 To celebrate our 10 year anniversary, we will be adding a lot more information to the site and hopefully improving it by our new relaunch date of 6/17/2008. Bandmate recalls Janis Joplin's 'big appetite' in TV doc It's been 37 years since Janis Joplin's death in a Hollywood hotel room, and her former bandmate Sam Andrew still can't explain it. Not the "how" that was clearly a lethal mixture of whiskey and heroin but the why. "We all did drugs back then, lots of them, all the time," says Andrew, a guitarist in two of Joplin's groups, the Holding Company and the Kozmic Blues Band. "Janis and I in particular did a lot. It seems crazy now, and looking back on it, I don't understand it all."

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popular: Johnny Cash Jimi Hendrix Freddie Mercury Kurt Cobain ... Ray Charles updated: Dusty Springfield Marvin Gaye Keith Moon Tupac Shakur ... rock biographies Janis Joplin Biography "I'll tell you 'bout Texas Radio and the Big Beat... I'll tell you 'bout the hopeless night Wandering the Western dream Tell you 'bout the maiden with raw iron soul" Jim Morrison, "The Wasp" On the surface, she seemed the perfect icon for stardom in the late Sixties: She fit no standard of beauty yet exuded a raw sensuality that mirrored a movement which rejected societal standards by creating its own. When Janis Joplin arrived in San Francisco, in 1966, the year before the Summer of Love, its music scene was already in a nascent, post-Beat hippie whirl. Young people flocked to the Bay area as if to Mecca by the thousands, searching for identity, reason, justification, maybe just something as simple as acceptance. This is the irony of all the great Sixties icons Joplin included: that their desire for acceptance was at the heart of their rebellion, and that their ultimate embrace by the masses came about because of this rebellion. The sad part about rebellion, however, is that it usually follows rejection, and that was something Janis Joplin knew deep down in her soul. The Janis Joplin of legend set the standard for the blues mama image of white female singers. Blues mamas have to be hard-livin', hard-lovin' and, of course, hard drinking. But life in the Gulf Coast town was not exactly hard; like much of the town's population, Janis' father, Seth, worked at the Texaco refinery and the Joplins resided comfortably.

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Home Stage/Screen Music Sports ... Journalism Janis Joplin "T he more you live, the less you die." Janis Joplin "If you got it today, you don't want it tomorrow, man. 'Cos you don't need it, So as a matter of fact, as we discover all the time, tomorrow never happens, man. It's all the same f...n' day, man!" Janis Joplin, at live performance in Calgary on 4th July 1970 - exactly four months before her death. (apologies for censoring her exact words which can be heard on the "Janis Joplin in Concert" CD) Best known for: Rock and roll's first female superstar, Janis Joplin showed that women could be rock singers. Almost 30 years after her death she is remembered as the best white blues singer of the 1960s. Famous for her Born: January 19th, 1943, in St. Mary's Hospital, Port Arthur, Texas, to parents Seth and Dorothy (East) Joplin. She died in Los Angeles on October 4th, 1970. Family: Parents: Seth Ward and Dorothy (East) Joplin. Brothers: Michael. Sisters: Lara. Janis' father, Seth, worked at the Texaco refinery and the family lived comfortably. Her mother was a Sunday School teacher and a registrar for a business college. Education: After graduating in 1960 from Thomas Jefferson High School in Port Arthur, Janis took some college courses at Lamar Tech and later attended The University of Texas at Austin.

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