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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. It was revealed this week that Michelle Williams is in talks to play singer Janis Joplin in a biopic entitled Janis, to be ...

Janis Joplin was born in 1943 and grew up in Port Arthur, Texas. She began singing in bars and coffeehouses, first locally, then in Austin, where she spent most of a year at the University of Texas.

When Janis was young, mother had a piano in the house and mother played, sang and taught Janis piano, so that was part of Janis's early life. She had a thyroid operation when Janis was probably five ...

Ostensibly, “Love, Janis,” a dramatic musical about Janis Joplin, reveals the late rock dynamo’s relationship with her family. Randal Myler’s show, in the midst of a run as part of the Theatre Aspen ...

After reading “Janis: Her Life and Music” (Simon & Schuster, $28.99), New York writer Holly George-Warren’s engrossing new biography of Janis Joplin, I’m left to wonder how the self-destructive singer ...

This is FRESH AIR. Janis Ian, the singer-songwriter who had her first hit record as a teenager in the 1960s, is the subject of a new documentary, "Janis Ian: Breaking Silence, " now available to ...

Janis Joplin was one of the most gifted and talented singer-songwriters of the 1960s. With a powerhouse voice and understated, no-frills look, Janis commanded every crowd she was in front of, from her ...

In the 1960s, Janis Joplin was an icon of the counterculture, a female rock star at a time when rock was an all-boys' club. "At that point in time there weren't too many women taking center stage," ...