Janice Joplin

Janis Joplin was a very famous singer, and she was known for her amazing voice and her rebel attitude. She was born in January 19 1943 and died in October 4 1970. Her parents were Dorothy Joplin andSeth Joplin and had two sibling called Michael and Laura. They would attend the Church of Christ.

One of her friends had albums by African-American blues and that influenced her decision onbecoming a singer. She joined the local choir and began to hear blues a lot more. In school she was a painter, and then she started singing blues and folk music with her friends.

When she was a teenager,she became overweight her skin broke out so badly she was left with deep scars. And other kids in high school would often tease her and they would call her names (pig, freak, creep).

She wasgraduated in 1960, during the summer she attended The Lamar State College of Technology in Texas, and then she went to the University of Texas in Austin, but she didn’t complete her studies. Her first songthat was recorded on tape was in December 1962 in the house of a fellow student and the song was: “What good can Drinkin’ Do”.

In 1964 Janis Joplin and a guitarist called Jorma Kaukonen recorded anumber of blues standards, and later was released as the bootleg album “The Typewriter Tape”.

In 1965 her friends noticed the physical effects of her amphetamine habit, so they started trying tomake her come back to Port Arthur, and later in may they threw her a bus-fare party so they could bring her back to Port Arthur. When she was back in Port Arthur she changed her way of living, sheavoided drugs and alcohol , started to wear modest clothes and started studying sociology (the study of society) in the Lamar Universtity.When she was studying in the University, she made a solo to Austin, and one of her songs was reviewed at the Austin American-Statesman news paper.

She was about to get married to a man that came to ask to Joplins father for her hand in marriage in a blue serge...