Janis Joplin

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Janis Joplin
  • Birth Name: Janis Lyn Joplin
  • Birth Place: Port Arthur, TX
  • Date of Birth / Zodiac Sign: 01/19/1943, Capricorn
  • Date of Death: 10/04/1970
  • Profession: Rock singer
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Janis Joplin Fast Facts:
  • Influences included musical icons Leadbelly, Odetta and Bessie Smith, for whom Joplin provided a headstone 33 years after the blues great's death.
  • An outcast in both high school and college who was frequently targeted for ridicule and torment.
  • Pre-fame, occasionally performed with future Jefferson Airplane/Hot Tuna guitarist Jorma Kaukonen.
  • Broke through with Big Brother and the Holding Company at the 1967 Monterey International Pop Festival, thanks to a mesmerizing set that included Joplin's take on the song "Ball and Chain."
  • Cheap Thrills, Big Brother's second album, went to No. 1 upon its release in August 1968; Joplin left the band four months later.
  • Had been scheduled to record vocals for "Buried Alive in the Blues," a song slated for the album Pearl, the day she died of a heroin overdose.
  • Released in 1971, Pearl and the single "Me and Bobby McGee" both topped the charts.
  • Inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1995 by folk-rock singer Melissa Etheridge.
  • Janis Joplin Relationships:
  • Seth Joplin - Father
  • Dorothy Joplin - Mother
  • Laura Joplin - Sister
  • Country Joe McDonald - Ex-significant Other
  • Kris Kristofferson - Ex-significant Other
  • Seth Morgan - Ex-significant Other
  • College:
  • Attended Lamar State College of Technology, Beaumont, TX; attended University of Texas, Austin, TX
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