Janis Joplin was born in 1943 in Port Arthur, Texas small town. It was American singer of rock and blues. He studied at the University of Austin, where he made his first forays into the college music scene.
Since childhood avoided girls fashion popular 1950s, often choosing to wear men's shirts and tights or short skirts. While she likes to stand out from the crowd, Joplin also found the target of some teasing and a popular subject in the rumor mill school
Attracted by the new lifestyle that brought the hippie revolution just begun, was established in 1963 in San Francisco. There was the lead singer of Big Brother & The Holding Company, would charge formation popularity in 1967 following his performance at the International Music Festival legendary Monterey Pop. Joplin then created his own group, the Kozmic Blues Band, later called The Full Tilt Boogie Band.
In 1969 launched I got Dem Blues Again Mama Ol'Kozmic, his first solo album. The album was a bestseller and reported to Joplin immense popularity. However had problems of its difficulty to assimilate and manage their star status, his private life was chaotic, and his open and notorious drug addiction. Joplin died in 1970 in a hotel room in Hollywood, as a result of a heroin overdose. At the time of his death was recording the LP Pearl, which would be published posthumously in 1971. The album and the single from it extracted, Me and Bobby McGee, reached number one on the charts. His record would edit yet, a year later, Janis Joplin in Concert.
With his voice torn, extraordinarily gifted convey emotions, and boundless energy, Janis Joplin was an apostle of the hippie movement. His disagreement with the consumer society was one of its MLAs. Rebel contemporary system and Joan Baez, who shared the same ideas and purposes, was, however, a radically different styles and skills. As in the case of Kurt Cobain and Jimi Hendrix, the excesses of a passionate life and his untimely death helped forge his legend: nine-year career were enough to become a legend in the history of rock.
At six weeks of his death, left the disc "Pearl" which was a hit and remained at number one in sales for 14 weeks. As a tribute, allowed the theme "Mercedes Benz" a capella, without music, because it was the last song recorded Janis, also included the song "Buried Alive in the Blues" with music only, without the voice of Janis that should have been singing.
Janis Joplin's body was cremated in Westwood, California, and his ashes were thrown into the Pacific Ocean. Bequeathed $ 600 to her friends to celebrate his death with a wild party.
Janis Joplin's life has been the subject of many books and documentaries, including Love, Janis (1992) written by her sister Laura Joplin. That book has become a play of the same title.
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