Janis Joplin (Second part)

Big Brother and the Holding Company

Tiring of Waiting to Leblanc and to be a good girl, She went to San Francisco with Chet Helms, a productor who She met in Texas. She joined to Big Brother and the Holding Company band on fourth july 1966, gotten a perfect mix. It was Chet Helms who brought her to San Francisco with a offert to she jouned to the band because Chet Helms was the band manager, wich she recorded her first album with a discography, Big Brother and the Holding Company, which It didn't pass unseen. Joplin Loved the creativity freedom of the San Francisco music scene. She usually acted with other psicodelic groups like The Grateful Dead, Jefferson Airplane, Quicksilver Messenger and The Charlatans in the famous dance halls Avalon Ballroom, Fillmore East and Fillmore West, or at outdoor festivals in the Golden Park and Haigh-Asjbury.

She acted with her band at the Monterrey Festival in 1967 with some great artist of the moment like Jimmy Hendrix, The Mamas an The Papas, Jefferson Airplane, Otis Redding and The Who among others. This first performace of the Big Brothers wasn't filmed and asked them that they played the next day, then they played Combination of the Two, and Janis left to the audience surprised with her emblematic version of the Blues of Big Mama Thorton "Ball and Chain".

Since that moment, they was contrated by the Bob Dylan's productor, Albert Grossman. Joplin overshone to the Big Brothers. In the 1968 spring, They moved to New York for recordering their first album. That mix of repetitive music, 60's psicodelic style and the amazing Joplin's voice was prodigious and Cheap Thrills went out to the market in augustus of 1968. Launching to Janiss to the succes, after of three days was a gold record and at the first month was sold over a million of copies. In 2003, Cheap Thrills was voted as the 338th best record of the all time.

The reviews about her was rather good, and newspapers begun to focus on more in Janis than the band, everybody said that She was too good for the group and there was tensions between their because of Janis' leadership and fame. Further She wanted to make blues and soul music, like those singerst that she venerated, among they was Bessie Smith, Billie Holiday or Aretha Franklin, then after a lot of pressof her manager, Albert Grossman, She left Big Brother and The Holding Company.

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.