American singer, Janis Lyn Joplin was born the January 19th 1943 with Port Arthur, port city of the Texas. She died of a overdose the October 4th 1970 with Los Angeles.

Life and career

Youth

Janis Joplin is born on January 19th, 1943 at the hospital St Mary with Port Arthur, with the Texas. Girl of Seth Joplin, employed at Texaco, it has a young brother and a young sister, Michael and Laura. She grows by listening to musicians of Blues like Bessie Smith, Odetta, and Big Mama Thornton, and sings with the local Chorale. With the college Thomas Jefferson, it often dries the courses. Rather attracted by painting initially, it is with the college that it starts to sing blues and Folk with friends. Joplin between with the University of Texas of Austin in 1960, where it will never obtain diploma. A rumor tells that she had been elected " the boy more laid" campus.

Cultivating a behavior " rebelle" who could be seen as released - the liberation movement of the woman was not that with its stammerings - Joplin is a style starting from its female idols of the blues, like in the Beat Generation. It leaves Texas for San Francisco in 1963. Its drug taking increases: it is accro with the speed and consumes Héroïne occasionally, inter alia. She drinks also enormously: its favorite drink is the " Southern Comfort" , a Liquor of Louisiana.

As much of singers of this time, the aggressive attitude of Janis in public is contrary to its true personality. The book Coils, Janis , written by his/her sister, reveals that in its private life, Joplin was a woman very rational, timid, sensitive, and very devoted with its family. Nevertheless, flambeuse famous, it had many one evening sexual relationships, in particular with, among most famous, (not all at the same time, certainly) Jim Morrison, Jimi Hendrix, Country Joe McDonald, Kris Kristofferson and even, of passage to London, with Eric Clapton, without counting quantity of unsteady young girls (source: Le Monde 2 , July 2007).

Big Brother and the Company Holding

Janis Joplin moves again in San Francisco in 1966, where, thanks to its voice very blues, it joined the Big Brother and The Holding Company, a group going up, especially popular near the community Hippie. The group signs a contract with the independent label Mainstream Records and records an album to which they give their name in 1967. However, the lack of success of their first individual leads the album to remain little sold.

The first great success of the group takes place to the pop festival of Monterey, where they play in particular a version of " Ball and Chain" of Big Mama Thornton, with an exceptional vocal performance of Janis. (The documentary one of D.A. Pennebaker Pop Monterey watch Case Elliot, Co-singer of the pop four-bit byte The Mamas & The Dads, among crowd, saying " Wow, that' S really heavy" (" Wow, it is hallucinant").) This performance, like their album of 1968 Cheap Thrills , characterized by pieces filled with emotions, did of Janis Joplin one of the stars impossible to circumvent of the music of the end of the year 1960.

Career solo and Woodstock

After being itself separate of Big Brother, it forms a new group to accompany it, the Kozmic Blues Band, and records I Got Dem Ol' Kozmic Blues Again Mama! (1969). The same year, it takes part in the famous festival of Woodstock. The group separates quickly, and Joplin forms the Full Tilt Boogie Band. They record the album Pearl (1971), which leaves after its death. It becomes the album more sold its short career, thanks to certain tubes like " Me and Bobby McGee" , and the song has cappella " Mercedes-Benz" , ironic social comment, written by Joplin and Michael McClure.

Among his last appearances in public, one can twice see it in the television program The Dick Cavett Show the June 25th and the August 3rd 1970. It also took part in the Festival Express train 1970, an itinerant and delirious festival through the Canada in July of the same year, with Buddy Guy, The Grateful Dead, The Band and so much of others.

Death

During the recording of " Pearl" in autumn 1970 with his new Full Tilt Boogie Band and the producer of Phil Ochs Paul A. Rothchild, Janis Joplin dies at 27 years. Its death is due to a Overdose of Héroïne the October 4th 1970. However, nobody found forever of syringe on the spot of the death. Its last complete recordings are " Mercedes-Benz" as well as a song of birthday for John Lennon on October 1st 1970; Lennon told later with Dick Cavett that the recording arrived at its house at New York only after its death.

It is not buried nowhere. It was incinerated with the cemetery Westwood Village Memorial Park with Westwood, a district of Los Angeles, in California, and its ashes were dispersed top of a plane in the Pacific Ocean. Fifteen days later, in accordance with its last wills (it had left a check of 2500 $ for this purpose), an immense festival gathered his/her friends. On the announcement one could read " drinks are one Pearl" (the drinks are offered by Pearl).

The album Pearl , left six weeks after its death, contains a version of " Buried Alive In The Blues" (" Buried (E) alive (E) in the blues/océan"), piece which remained instrumental, Joplin having died before recording the voice.

Little recognized by its birthplace during its life, it was celebrated later. In 1988, its life and its work were rewarded with Port Arthur, where a museum with its name comprises in particular a sculpture out of bronze of Douglas Clark.

The film of 1979 The Pink is largely inspired by the life of Janis Joplin. Bette Midler was nominated for a Academy Award of the best actress.

Heritage

Janis Joplin which was made call Pearl because of pink sound boa and the trinkets slap-with-the eye, testified an unconditional admiration with Bessie Smith, the empress of the blues. Moreover, Janis hitherto a41dernier $c-b1, e,10 $c-b26 ce $c-b16 $c-b43, bn,84 paid its own sums of money the inscription on the tomb anonymous of the singer: " the largest singer of blues in the world will never cease singing - Bessie Smith 1895-1937".

Janis marked the spirits thanks to its voice very controlled, powerful and moderated, with a rather wide Tessiture and a stamp of particularly rocky voice, which differs notably from the styles Folk and rather common Jazz at much of white artists of the time, like its lyric topics turning around the suffering and of the loss. It undoubtedly remains the largest white singer of all times.

For much, she personified the time of Sixties or the sound of San Francisco, its lifestyle and its getups odd (for the time) revolutionized the country. Many fans of Janis remember his appearance to the Dick Cavett show , with a Dick Cavett obviously dazzled.

It upset the world of the rock'n'roll hitherto a41dernier $c-b1, e,10 $c-b26 ce $c-b16 $c-b43, bn,84 dominated by the men, by imposing a way rageuse and déglinguée to be expressed with the female one.

One often compares it with Jimi Hendrix, Jim Morrison (sacrificed of Summer off coils) and Brian Jones, because they are all the four died at twenty-seven years, while misusing drugs after short but fulgurating career.

Discography

• 1967 : Big Brother and the Holding Company (box off pearls 01)

• 1967: Light is faster then sound
• 1967: Live At Monterey (International Pop Festival)
• 1968: Cheap Thrills (box off pearls 02)
• 1969: I got dem ol' kozmic blues again mama! (box off pearls 03)
• 1969: Live in Woodstock
• 1969: Live Texas (international pop festival)
• 1969: Summertime, live in Amsterdam (04-01-69)
• 1971: Pearl (box off pearls 04)
• 1972: Joplin in concert
• 1973: Janis Joplin' S greatest hits
• 1974: Early performances
• 1974: Soundtrack from janis movie
• 1975: Janis
• 1982 : Farewell song
• 1984 : Cheaper thrills
• 1993 : Janis (CD set)
• 1995: 18 essential songs
• 1997: Absolute Janis
• 1998 : Live At Winterland '68
• 1999: Rare pearls (box off pearls 05)
• 2001: Coils, Janis

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