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by Janis Joplin (Artist)

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Published June 26, 2009

About the author

Janis Lyn Joplin was an American singer, songwriter, and music arranger, from Port Arthur, Texas. She rose to prominence in the late 1960s as the lead singer of Big Brother and the Holding Company, and later as a solo artist. In 2004, Rolling Stone magazine ranked Joplin #46 on their list of the 100 Greatest Artists of All Time. She died in Los Angeles, California of a drug overdose at the age of 27.