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Aug 25, 2023 · Janis Ian is a singer and songwriter whose career went through three distinct stages. She had an initial burst of fame as a teenager with a precocious gift for social and political commentary, documented on her self-titled 1967 album and its hit single "Society's Child." Ian returned in the mid-'70s with deeply personal songs about life and ...
Janis Ian. In the tangles of my mind. and a haze of mourning wine. As the swollen evening sun. turns to a morning shroud. And the purple grains of sand. whisper through my hourglass hands. convincing me I’ve little time for sleeping. And the sullen light of morning time.
Janis Ian is an American singer-songwriter who was most commercially successful in the 1960s and 1970s. Her signature songs are the 1966/67 hit "Society's Child" and the 1975 Top Ten single "At Seventeen", from her seventh studio album Between the Lines, which in September 1975 reached no. 1 on the U.S. Billboard 200 chart.
Jan 19, 2022 · On a recent morning, Janis Ian spoke expansively from her work space in Florida about a 50-year career marked by literary lyrics, social activism and major hits. Just one subject brought her up short.
Apr 26, 2022 · Janis Ian: Yes, except that I’m fussier now. The older I get, the harder it is and the more interested I am in getting rid of anything that’s not necessary. Leave Conrad, who was the great ...
Janis Ian (born Janis Eddy Fink, April 7, 1951) is an American songwriter, singer, musician, columnist, and science fiction writer. [1] She stated singing folk in the mid- sixties while she was still a teenager. She sang the most in the 1960s and the 1970s, but she's still singing today. In 1975, Ian won a Grammy Award for her song, "At Seventeen".
