American singer
Born: January 19, 1943
Died: October 4, 1970
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 autoharp in Austin bars. 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 the 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, with 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 best-selling album was the posthumously released “Pearl,” which contained her quintessential song, “Me & Bobby McGee.”
Janis Joplin’s 5 most popular quotes
- To be true to myself, to be the person that was on the inside of me, and not play games. That’s what I’m trying to do mostly in the whole world, is not bullshit myself and not bullshit anybody else.
- If you’ve got a today, don’t wear it tomorrow. Tomorrow never happens. It’s all the same day.
- As good as you’ve been to this world is as good as it’s gonna be right back to you.
- When you hold somebody, you gotta hold them like it’s the last minute of your life.
- I’m just doing what I wanted to and what feels right and not settling for bullshit and it worked. How can they be mad at that?
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