Janis Joplin

Janis Joplin

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Birthday: 
19 January 1943, Port Arthur, Texas, USA
Birth Name: 
Janis Lyn Joplin
Height: 
165 cm
Janis Lyn Joplin was born at St. Mary's Hospital in the oil-refining town of Port Arthur, Texas, near the border with Louisiana. Her father was a cannery worker and her mother was a registrar for a business college. As an overweight teenager, she was a folk-music devotee (especially Odetta, Leadbelly and Bessie Smith). After graduating from Th... Show more »
Janis Lyn Joplin was born at St. Mary's Hospital in the oil-refining town of Port Arthur, Texas, near the border with Louisiana. Her father was a cannery worker and her mother was a registrar for a business college. As an overweight teenager, she was a folk-music devotee (especially Odetta, Leadbelly and Bessie Smith). After graduating from Thomas Jefferson High School, she attended Lamar State College and the University of Texas, where she played auto-harp in Austin bars.She was nominated for the Ugliest Man on Campus in 1963, and she spent two years traveling, performing and becoming drug-addicted. Back home in 1966, her friend Chet Helms suggested she become lead singer for Big Brother and the Holding Company, an established Haight-Ashbury band consisting of guitarists James Gurley and Sam Andrew, bassist Peter Albin and drummer Dave Getz). She got wide recognition through the Monterey Pop Festival in 1967, highlights of which were released in Monterey Pop (1968), and with the band's landmark second album, "Cheap Thrills". She formed her "Kosmic Blues Band" the following year and achieved still further recognition as a solo performer at Woodstock in 1969, highlights released in Woodstock (1970). In the spring of 1970, she sang with the "Full Tilt Boogie Band" and, on October 4 of that year, she was found dead in Hollywood's Landmark Motor Hotel (now known as Highland Gardens Hotel) from a heroin-alcohol overdose the previous day. Her ashes were scattered off the coast of California. Her biggest selling album was the posthumously released "Pearl", which contained her quintessential song: "Me & Bobby McGee". Show less «

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Little Richard: I Am Everything

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Love to Love You, Donna Summer

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Apollo 10 1/2: A Space Age Adventure

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Patti Smith, la poésie du punk

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Days of Rage: the Rolling Stones` Road to Altamont

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ZZ Top: That Little Ol' Band from Texas

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27: Gone Too Soon

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Hare Krishna! The Mantra, the Movement and the Swami Who Started It All

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Janis Little Girl Blue

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Super Duper Alice Cooper

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When You`re Strange

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Festival Express

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Woodstock Part 2

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Woodstock (1970)

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Woodstock CD3

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Petulia

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