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Janis Joplin

Musician
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Blues

The Profile

Janis Lyn Joplin (January 19, 1943 – October 4, 1970) was an American rock and blues singer, noted for her powerful, anguished vocals. She rose to fame as lead singer of Big Brother and the Holding Company and in a short career became a defining voice of late-1960s blues-rock. She died in 1970 from a drug overdose.

Pearl was released posthumously in early 1971 and was produced by Paul Rothchild. Joplin is widely recognized for emotive, blues-inflected performances and recordings with Big Brother and the Holding Company and as a solo artist.

DeBaser reviews praise Janis Joplin's raw, powerful blues voice and the emotional intensity of albums like Pearl and I Got Dem Ol' Kozmic Blues Again Mama!. Reviewers emphasize her desperate, cathartic singing and her place as a seminal figure in blues-rock. Pearl is noted as a posthumous masterpiece.

Notable Quotes

❝ Janis doesn't sing like others, she screams her need to be loved!
❝ This album was released posthumously in early 1971, a few months after Janis had already left us (she died in October '70).
❝ For those who don't know her, or haven't yet listened to her, I would introduce, as a simple mortal, the most beautiful illegitimate daughter the black blues ever produced.
❝ A lifeless body on the bed, taken by a heroin overdose.
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