Janis Lynn Joplin (Port Arthur, 19 of January of 1943 - Los Angeles, 4 of October of 1970) was a singer and United States composer. The became known in the end of years 60 as vocalista of the band Big Brother and Company Holding, and later as alone artist.

Janis was born in the city of Port Arthur, Texas, in the United States. It grew hearing musicians of blues, such as Bessie Smith and Big Mama Thornton and singing in the local choir. Joplin concluded the secondary course in the Jefferson High School in Port Arthur in the year of 1960, and was for the University of the Texas, in the city of Austin, where it started to sing blues and folk with friends.

Cultivating an rebellious attitude, Joplin if dressed as the poets of the generation beat, was changed of the Texas for San Francisco in 1963, it liveed in North Beach, and it worked as singer folk. For return of this time its use of drugs started to increase, including the heroine. Janis always drank very in all its career, and its preferring was the drink Southern Comfort. The use of drugs arrived to be more important for it of what singing, and arrived to ruin its health.

After returning the Port Arthur to recover, it came back toward San Francisco in 1966, where its influences of had approached blues it to the group Big Brother & The Company Holding, that was gaining some prominence enters the rising community hippie in Haight-Ashbury. The band signed a contract with the independent stamp Mainstream Records and recorded an album in 1967. However, the lack of success of its first singles made with that the album was restrained until its posterior success.

The prominence of the band was in the Festival Pop de Monterey, with a version of music “Ball and Chain” and the vocal marcantes of Janis. Its album of 1968 Cheap Thrills made the name of Janis.

When leaving the band Big Brother, Janis formed a called group Kozmic Blues Band, folloied that it in I Got Dem Ol' Kozmic Blues Again Mama! (1969). The group if separated, and Joplin formed then the Full Tilt Boogie Band. The result was the Pearl album (1971), launched its death after, and that it had as and Bobby McGee” (of Kris Kristofferson) has detached musics “Me, and “Mercedes-Benz”, written for the poet beatnik Michael McClure.

I can not last in such a way how much the other singers, but I know that I can now destroy me worrying without me excessively about tomorrow.

- Janis Joplin ^[1]

Janis Joplin was in Brazil in February of 1970, in the attempt of if exempting of the vice of the heroine. During its sojourn, it made topless in Copacabana, it drank very, it sang in a brothel, it was banishes from the Hotel Copacabana Palace for swimming naked in the swimming pool and she was almost imprisoned, for its attitudes in the beach, considered “outside of the normal one”.

As it was time of carnival, tried to participate of a parade of samba school, however it had access denied for a security that distrusted of its clothes hippie. It is speculated on that, before coming back toward the United States, it had one brief loving relation with the Brazilian rock musician Serguei.

Janis Joplin died of overdose of heroine in 4 of October of 1970, in Los Angeles, California, with only 27 years. It was cremada in the memorial cemetary-park of Westwood Village, in Westwood, California, and in a ceremony, its leached ashes had been spread by the Pacific Ocean.

The Pearl album was launched 6 months after its death. The film The Rose, with Bette Midler in the paper of Janis Joplin, was based on its life.

It today is remembered by its strong and marcante, sufficiently distant voice of the more common influences folk at its time, and also for the subjects of pain and loss that she chose for its musics.

Discografia

Big Brother and the Company Holding

Big Brother & the Holding Company - 1967

Cheap Thrills - 1968

Live at Winterland '68 - 1999

Kozmic Blues Band

I Got Dem Ol' Kozmic Blues Again Mama! - 1969

Full Tilt Boogie Band

Pearl - 1971

Big Brother and the Holding Company/Full Tilt Boogie Band

Joplin: In Concert - 1972

Janis Joplin - Piece of my heart

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