Janis+Joplin

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__Janis Joplin__

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__BACKGROUND AND OVERVIEW OF JANIS:media type="youtube" key="-7JVxE2SYxo" width="425" height="350" align="right"__ Kozmic Blues Band Full Tilt Boogie Band || magazine ranked Joplin number 46 on its list of the 100 Greatest Artists of All Time in 2004, and number 28 on its 2008 list of 100 Greatest Singers of All Time
 * Birth Name || Janis Lyne Joplin ||
 * Born || January 19, 1943 Port Arthur Texas,US ||
 * Died || October 4, 1970(age 27) Las Angeles ||
 * Genres || Blues, Rock, Psychedelic Rock, Hard Rock ||
 * Instruments || Vocals, Guitar ||
 * Occupation || Singer, Songwriter ||
 * Years Active || 1962-1970 ||
 * Associated Bands || Big Brother & the Holding Company
 * She arose in the late 1960s as the lead singer of Big Brother and the Holding Company and later as a solo artist. Rolling Stones
 * She arose in the late 1960s as the lead singer of Big Brother and the Holding Company and later as a solo artist. Rolling Stones
 * her husband, Seth Joplin (1910–1987), an engineer at Texaco. She had two younger siblings, Michael and L aura

== __** Early life: 1943–1965 **__ ==
 * She had two younger siblings, Michael and Laura. The family attended the Church. The Joplins felt that Janis always needed more attention than their other children[[image:http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_g-jRVLhnp3Y/SSkXvlky3OI/AAAAAAAABJA/0jRa6TKjzjg/s400/janis_child_01.jpg width="138" height="170" align="left"]]
 * As a teenager, she befriended a group of outcasts, one of whom had albums by African-American blues artists Bessie Smith and Leadbelly, whom Joplin later credited with influencing her decision to become a singer.
 * She began singing in the local choir and expanded her listening to blues singers such as Odetta and Big Mama Thornton.
 * Primarily a painter while still in school, she first began singing blues and folk music with friends. While at Thomas Jefferson High School
 * Joplin graduated from high school in 1960 and attended Lamar State Collage of Technology in Beaumont
 * The campus newspaper ran a profile of her in 1962 headlined "She Dares To Be Different."
 * Around this time her drug use increased, and she acquired a reputation as a "speed freak" and occasional heroin use[[image:http://www.herbgreenefoto.com/gallery/big_brother/big_brother-1.jpg width="295" height="290" align="right"]]r.
 * She also used other psychoactive drugs and was a heavy drinker throughout her career; her favorite beverage was Southern Comfort.

==__** Big Brother and the Holding Company: 1966–1968 **__ ==
 * ** In 1966, Joplin's bluesy vocal style attracted the attention of the psychedelic rock band Big Brother and The Holding Company **
 * ** She was recruited to join the group by Chet Helms, a promoter who had known her in Texas and who at the time was managing Big Brother. **
 * ** Helms brought her back to San Francisco and Joplin joined Big Brother on June 4, 1966. **** Her first public performance with them was at the Avalon Ballroom in San Francisco. **
 * ** A San Francisco concert from that summer was recorded and released in the 1984 album //Cheaper Thrills//. **
 * ** On August 23, 1966, in Chicago, the group signed a deal with independent label Mainstream Records. **
 * ** They recorded tracks in a Chicago recording studio, but the label owner Bob Shad refused to pay their airfare back to San Francisco. **
 * ** Shortly after the five band members drove from Chicago to Northern California with very little money, they moved with the Greatful Dead to a house in Lagunitas, California. It was there that Joplin relapsed into hard drugs. **

== Solo career: 1969–1970 ==
 * After splitting from Big Brother, Joplin formed a new backup group, the Kozmic Blues Band.
 * The band was influenced by the Stax Volt Rhythm and Blues bands of the 1960s
 * The Stax-Volt R&B sound was the use of horns and had a more bluesy, funky, soul, pop-oriented sound than most of the hard-rock psychedelic bands of the period
 * By early 1969, Joplin was addicted to heroin, allegedly shooting at least $200 worth of heroin per day
 * Joplin and the Kozmic Blues Band toured North America and Europe throughout 1969, appearing at Woodstock in August.
 * By most accounts, Woodstock was not a happy affair for Joplin. Faced with a ten hour wait after arriving at the festival
 * she shot heroin and was drinking alcohol
 * In February 1970, Joplin traveled to Brazil, where she stopped her drug and alcohol use.
 * She was accompanied by her friend Linda Gravenites, who had designed the singer's stage costumes from 1966 to 1969.
 * Around this time she formed her new band, the Full Tilt Boogie Band
 * The band was composed mostly of young Canadian musicians and featured an organ, but no horn section.
 * Joplin took a more active role in putting together the Full Tilt Boogie Band than she did with her prior group

**__ Death: __**
 * The last recordings Joplin completed were "Mercedes Benz" and a birthday greeting for John Lennon on October 1, 1970.
 * When she failed to show up at the studio for the recording session by Sunday afternoon, producer Paul Rothchild beca[[image:http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/2b/Janis_Joplin%27s_Porsche_356_convertible.jpg width="320" height="240" align="right" caption="Janis Joplin's Porsche in Summer of Love - Art of the Psychedelic Era "]]me concerned.
 * Full Tilt Boogie's road manager, John Cooke, drove to the Landmark. He saw Joplin's psychedelically painted Porsche still in the parking lot. Upon entering her room, he found her dead on the floor.
 * The official cause of death was an overdose of heroin, possibly combined with the effects of alcohol.

**__Legacy:__**


 * Joplin's death in October 1970 at the age of 27 stunned her fans and shocked the music world.
 * Her death was coupled with the fact that another rock ico n, Jimi Hendrix had died a few weeks earlier in September.
 * Music historian Tom Moon wrote that Joplin had "a devastatingly original voice."

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