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Singer Janis Joplin, whose complete name was Janis Lyn Joplin, was born on January 19, 1943 in Port Arthur (Texas, United States), in bosom of a very conservative family. Her father, Seth, was employed at a refinery of oil. Her mother, Doroty, had love for singing from her years of institute. A more or less normal infancy happened, but in the adolescence they began her first disorders of personality related to the physical aspect. She had tendency to put on weight, her hair changed the fair-haired infantile one to the chestnut-tree and the acne was marking her face. She became a solitary girl and with many difficulties to make friends, sheltering in the music, the painting and the poetry. The mockery and humiliations of her schoolmates provoked that she was avoiding to look at the mirror and awarded to her character a big rebelliousness towards the model of prevailing society. At the age of fourteen the orange hair was dyed. Her rejection to the racism and her taste for the black music placed her in a difficult position in an epoch where the racial differences were still clear. At the age of seventeen she left the studies to frequent the bars of Louisiana and to listen jazz, folk and blues, that were her favorite styles. One year later she began to sing blues. She traveled to Austin, joined there the University of Texas to study Fine arts and recorded her first disk, acting meanwhile in small peoples. An old friend of Austin, Chet Helms, called her to offer her an audition in San Francisco along with a local and not very good group, Big Brother and The Holding Company. The success of Janis in San Francisco extended for all the country, going so far as to operate in 1967 in the Festival of Monterrey, organized by John Phillips, along with big stars of the epoch as Jimi Hendrix, The Who, The Mamas and the Papas, Otis Redding, etc. The famous producer Albert Grossman hired the group and organized a tour along United States. Janis started consuming heroin, anfetaminas and speed in addition to alcohol. They took her extravagant and untidy life to a physical situation of extreme thinness, going so far as to weigh only 35 kilos. Her sexual life also became chaotic, supporting relations with numerous men and women what it was qualified of "animal bacchanals ". In 1968 they moved to New York where she recorded the first disk with Big Brother. The success was enormous, selling more than one million disks, but to the people was attracting especially the powerful and broken voice of Janis more than her accompanists. Because of the disagreements with her partners she changed to a group called Cosmic Blues Band, but the experience was a defeat. Janis sank and her consumption of alcohol and drugs became uncontrollable. Determined to put remedy to this imbalance she wanted to leave the drugs, to return to her studies and to marry, but her fiancé left her, it being consolidated in her character the sensation of not being able to be loved by anybody. Although Janis took as lovers more women that men, she never declared herself lesbian or bisexual but simply "sexual". Her friends were saying that she was bisexual, the press that she was heterosexual and the lesbians that she was lesbian. Between her feminine lovers was Peggy Caserta, who was sharing with her the narcotic addiction. Janis returned to Port Arthur, her city, but she was not received well: her parents were not accepting her way of life and they left before she was coming. Her mother even went so far as to say that she was sorry that she had been born. In 1970 Janis moved to Los Angeles with her new group, The Full Tilt Boogie Band, to record a new disk, but in the night of October 4 of this year Janis died for an overdose of heroine in a hotel. The mass media hinted that her death might have been for suicide and even for murder. In 1971 there appeared the posthumous album Pearl, who was a number one of sales with the song Me And Bobby McGee. The premature death of Janis and her fleeting years as star of the rock has been turned into a myth of the famous slogan "sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll".

Discography of Janis Joplin

- Big Brother and The Holding Company (1968)
- Cheap Thrills (1968)
- I Got Dem Ol' Kozmic Blues Again Mama (1969)
- Pearl & The Full Tilt Boogie (1971) - Posthumous.

Interesting links about Janis Joplin

- Janis Joplin Official Site
- Janis Joplin's Kozmic Blues

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