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Janis Ian

American singer-songwriter (born 1951)

This article is about the singer. For the fictional character, see Janis Ian (Mean Girls).

Musical artist

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.

Born in Farmingdale, New Jersey, Ian entered the American folk music scene while still a teenager in the mid-1960s. Most active musically in that decade and the 1970s, she has continued recording into the 21st century. She has won two Grammy Awards, the first in 1975 for "At Seventeen" and the second in 2013 for Best Spoken Word Album, for her autobiography, Society's Child, with a total of ten nominations in eight different categories.

Ian is a columnist and science fiction author.[2]

Early life

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Janis Ian

Janis Ian (born Janis Eddy Fink, April 7, 1951) is an American songwriter, singer, musician, columnist, and science fiction writer.[1] She stated singing folk in the mid-sixties while she was still a teenager. She sang the most in the 1960s and the 1970s, but she's still singing today. In 1975, Ian won a Grammy Award for her song, "At Seventeen".

Ian is openlylesbian and is married to a woman.[2]

Discography

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Albums

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  • Janis Ian (1967) #29 US (Verve) / (1978) (Columbia) / (Bonus Track) (2004) (Festival, Cooking Vinyl UK)
  • For All the Seasons of Your Mind (1967) #179 US (Verve)
  • The Secret Life of J. Eddy Fink (1968) (Verve)
  • Who Really Cares (1969) (Verve)
  • Present Company (1971) #223 US (Capitol)
  • Stars (1974) #83 US, #63 (Columbia) / (Bonus Track) (2004) (Festival, Cooking Vinyl)
  • Between the Lines (1975) #1 US, #22 Japan (Columbia, Festival) / (Bonus Track) (2004) (Festival, Cooking Vinyl UK)
  • Aftertones (1976) #12 US, #1 Japan (Columbia) / (Bonus Track) (2004) (Festival,
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    Monumental Mistakes

    Janis Ian
    Performing Songwriter, August 1998

    As I gaze upon the faces chiseled into America's Mount Rushmore, I am struck by a sense of wonder. These four men, so instrumental to our country's history. Washington, Lincoln, Jefferson, and some other guy whose name I can't remember. Great orators and thinkers all, paragons of virtue whose names will live on for centuries to come.

    Did they ever make mistakes? I wonder. Big ones, little ones? Mistakes that changed the shape of their lives, and forced them to reconsider their very destinies?

    Were they advised by a Higher Power that kept them from making fools of themselves in public? Or were they just, like me, merely accident-prone in the minefields of life....

    We all make mistakes. It's in the nature of human beings to err, and having erred, to learn from the mistake and continue onward. The longer the career, the more mistakes, or so one would assume. Yet sometimes I wonder how my life would have been if I'd avoided the various catastrophic blunders that re-shaped my career.

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