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Janis Joplin (first part)


Janis Joplin (19th Jabuary 1943- 4th October 1970) was a rock and roll and blues singer featured by his voice and revel spirit. Her complete name is Janis Lyn Joplin. She was a female symbol of the 60's counterculture , the hippies move and the first woman considered a great start of the Rock and Roll. In 1995 entered in the Rock Fame Hall. In 2004 the Rolling Stone Magazzine placed her in the 46th position of the best artist of all time and in 2008 in the 28th.

Biografy
Childhood

She was born on 19th January of 1943 in Port Arthur, an industrial location in Texas. Her parents, Seth , who worked at a refinery, and Dorothy, who had salient singing in her highschool and she wanted that Janis would had be a teacher. She has two younger brother, Michael and Laura.

Janis, in his first year at the highschool, joined to a intelectual youngs gang (beats o beatniks), because she become a
marginalized by her peers, she has been during this fase a pretty impopular person, balmed "friend of blacks" for refuising the racism. In the 17 years old began to express her love for the music, going the Luisina pubs where she listened black music like blues and jazz and in the 17 began to sing.

When She studied at fine arts academy of the Texas university, began to sing usually at pubs. She usually took part with the Waller Creck Boys band. There she began to earn her fame as a strong drinker. In 1963 , She moved to San Francisco city where she began to be known. Being there she met to many musicians with who later she rediscovered, like her lover Ron "Pigpen" McKernan ( after he was member of The Grateful Dead) and recorded a domestic record with Jorma Kaukonen ( later guitarist of Jefferson Airplane) and Margareta Kaukonen in the typewriter (like percurssion instrument). At this moment She began the contact with drugs and sink in an state of abandon, reaching to have 35 kl weight. In 1965 told his family that she returned to her grade study and gotten married with a man who she had met in San Francisco, known as Peter Leblanc, but wedding dint'n take place because Peter left her and this fact marked her affective insecurity and her feeling of loneliness even more.

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