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  1. Apr 22, 2024 · Janis Joplin, American singer who was the premier white female blues vocalist of the 1960s. She dazzled listeners with her raw blues-soaked voice and her fierce and uninhibited musical style. Her best-known songs included ‘Piece of My Heart’ and ‘Me and Bobby McGee.’

  2. Oct 19, 2023 · In her brief but powerful career, Janis Joplin brilliantly connected the traditions of early 20th century blues and ‘60s psychedelic rock with a voice that stunned audiences the world over....

  3. About. That voice – high, husky, earthy, explosive – remains among the most distinctive and galvanizing in pop history. But Janis Joplin didn’t merely possess a great instrument; she threw herself into every syllable, testifying from the very core of her being.

  4. 4 October 2020. By Vincent Dowd,Arts correspondent, BBC News. Getty Images. It's 50 years since Janis Joplin died of an overdose in Los Angeles aged only 27. Her sad death is the one main fact...

  5. She was a rock & roll woman to her toes, a blues singer of unparalleled passion and the greatest white female performer to emerge from the tempest of the late 1960s. Janis Joplin shot out of Port Arthur, Texas, and blasted west to San Francisco during one of the most creative periods in this country’s cultural history, when an amplified music ...

  6. Jun 7, 2010 · Janis Joplin. Tucker Ransom/Hulton Archive/Getty Images. Janis Joplin would have been 70 years-old today, January 19, 2013. We celebrate her birthday by remembering her unmistakable voice....

  7. The official channel of the Queen of Rock & Roll, JANIS JOPLIN.

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