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Janis Ian (born Janis Eddy Fink; April 7, 1951) 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 (Baby I've Been Thinking)" [1] 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.
Stars is the sixth studio album by American singer-songwriter Janis Ian, and the first of her seven for Columbia Records. Ian had previously had a three-year hiatus from the music industry since her 1971 album Present Company. In two years away from the music business, Ian wrote over 100 songs after moving to Los Angeles. [4]
Janis Eddy Fink had begun writing poetry when she was eight and singing when she was twelve. [6] Changing her name to "Janis Ian" after the middle name of her brother, she began to perform in New York folk clubs in her teens and made her first recording, "Baby I've Been Thinking" in September 1965. [7]
"Society's Child" (originally titled "Baby I've Been Thinking") is a song about an interracial relationship written and recorded by American singer-songwriter Janis Ian in 1965. According to Janis Ian, Atlantic Records refused to release it although the company had financed the recording; the artist took it to Verve Records who agreed to rele
That undertaking is The Janis Ian Archives, a massive donation by the folk-reared artist that covers a music career than opened eyes and ears as far back as 1966 with Ian’s song of an ...
Ringo Sheena recorded the track "Seventeen" as a tribute to the Janis Ian song; Sheena cited Ian as one of her major influences, particularly for her voice. [90] [91] The all-female band at17 chose their name partially based on the Janis Ian song. [92] They did a Cantonese version for their 2002 studio album Meow Meow Meow. [93]
The Light at the End of the Line is a 2022 studio album by American folk musician Janis Ian, billed as her final solo studio album. [2] [3] The album has received positive reviews from critics and was intended to be paired with a farewell tour which Ian had to cancel most of due to laryngitis. [4]
Janis Ian was recorded in late 1977 but not released until her return to the United States in the late summer of 1978, by which time she had been engaged and married to Portuguese novelist Tino Sargo. [2] When Janis Ian was released, the singer was pleased, [3] and the record at first appeared to be doing