BIOGRAPHICAL DETAILS
Full Name: Janice Eddy Fink
Description: Vocalist, Composer, USA
Instruments: Guitarist, Voice
Music Styles: Folk
Location: United States of America
Date Born: 7th May 1951
Location Born: The Bronx, New York, United States of America
CONTACT DETAILS
Web Site: Official website
Janis Ian
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BIOGRAPHICAL PROFILE
Janis Ian
An American songwriter, singer, musician, columnist, and science fiction author. Ian first entered the folk music scene while still a teenager in the mid-sixties; most active musically in that decade and the 1970s, she has continued recording into the 21st century. In 1975, Ian won a Grammy Award for her song, “At Seventeen”.
Born to a Jewish family in New York City, she was primarily raised in New Jersey, initially on a farm, and attended East Orange High School and the New York City High School of Music & Art.
At the age of thirteen, Ian wrote and sang her first hit single, “Society’s Child (Baby I’ve Been Thinking)”, about an interracial romance forbidden by a girl’s mother and frowned upon by her peers and teachers: the girl ultimately decides to end the relationship, claiming the societal norms of the day have left her no other choice.
Produced by George “Shadow” Morton and released three times between 1965 and 1967, “Society’s Child” finally became a national hit upon its third release, after Leonard Bernstein featured it in a TV special titled Inside Pop: The Rock Revolution.
“Fly Too High” (1979), produced by disco producer Giorgio Moroder, was her contribution to the soundtrack of the Jodie Foster film Foxes, also featured on Ian’s 1979 album Night Rains. It earned her a Grammy nomination and became a hit single in many countries, including South Africa, Belgium. Australia, Israel, and the Netherlands.
Ian finally became one of the first “indie artists,” resurfacing in 1993, with the worldwide release of Breaking Silence and its title song about incest.
She also came out as a lesbian with that release. She also, in 1993, made her The Howard Stern Show appearance, where she performed a “new” version of “At Seventeen” about Jerry Seinfeld. Since then Ian has released several albums.
On July 24, 2008, Janis Ian released her autobiography Society’s Child (published by Penguin Tarcher) to much critical acclaim. An accompanying double CD, The Autobiography Collection, has also been released with many of Ian’s best loved songs.
Her Albums include.
JANIS IAN – 1967
BETWEEN THE LINES – 1975
AFTERTONES – 1976
Links: Official website
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