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Janis Joplin
Janis Joplin was born on January 19, 1493 in Port Arthur, Texas. ...
Janis went back to Texas in early 1966, shortly before her friend Chet Helms became the manager of a new rock group called Big Brother and The Holding Company. The band needed a female vocalist and Chet thought of Janis. ... ¡¨ Janis is described as one of the most influential female singers of the last 1960¡¦s and is often compared to music greats like blues artist Bessie Smith and soul singer Aretha Franklin. ... ¡¨
¡§Janis was a jangling, pulsating pastiche of color, texture, and sound. ... ¡¨
Janis eventually bought ¡§an eye-popping, traffic stopping, hippiemobile. ... It was custom painted in psychedelic hues with various images that characterized Janis¡¦ life. ¡§If Janis voice was her soul, her psychedelic car was the banner she waved¡¨ Dave Richards, the painter of the car, describes his design as "what was going on in all our heads at the time; influenced by a lot of LSD and lot of marijuana and the Vietnam War and the civil rights movement. ...
Joplins sexuality was expansive and open, encompassing both men and women; but the "freak" circles in which Joplin circulated were generally heterosexual and not immune to sexism. Hippie women, after all, were not supposed to be crass and, as Janis was often described, "ballsy.
Approximate Word count = 1057
Approximate Pages = 4.2
(250 words per page double spaced)
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