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Janis Ian was born April 7, 1951, and started playing the piano at two. Far from being a child prodigy on that instrument, she hated scales and studying, and switched to guitar at age 10. ("I figured out that while you couldn’t carry a piano, you could carry a guitar, and that was it.") Her first song was written at 12 and recorded on her first album for Verve-Folkways in 1965, which also featured her first hit, "Society’s Child." The song ignited controversy from coast to coast, resulting in the burning of a radio station, the firing of disc jockeys who played it, and a generation hungering for the truth finally having a female songwriter to stand beside Bob Dylan.
Ian took a break at the age of 18, retiring to Philadelphia for three years "to find out if I had it in me to be a good songwriter, or if I should just go to school and become a veterinarian." She returned with the stunning Stars album in 1973, and went on to cover the decade with number one records worldwide. Her follow-up to Between the Lines, titled Aftertones, was #1 in Japan for an astonishing six months, a record still unbroken by a female artist. Night Rains, featuring the Giorgio Moroder collaboration "Fly Too High," managed to go platinum throughout Europe, Africa and Australia.
In 1983, after 10 unbroken years of making records and touring, Ian took an unprecedented nine-year hiatus from the visible music world, studying acting with the legendary Stella Adler and "in general, learning how to be a person." During that period, she married and divorced, had two emergency surgeries, lost all her savings and home to an unscrupulous business manager, and moved to Nashville, Tennessee, in 1988 "penniless, in debt, and hungry to write." She returned to the music business with 1992’s Breaking Silence, which immediately garnered her ninth Grammy nomination.
2006 marks many milestones for Ian: it is the 40th anniversary of the release of "Society’s Child." It is the 42nd anniversary of her first New York show (at The Village Gate, in 1964, at the age of 13). It is the 43rd anniversary of the publication of her first song, as well as the 43rd anniversary of her career as a songwriter (her first song, "Hair of Spun Gold", was published in Broadside magazine in 1963, when Ian was 12 years old.) The 38th anniversary of her first Grammy nomination. Hard to believe she started so young; hard to believe she’s still going strong..
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| Ruby | Revenge | 4:22 | 35 |  19 votes |
You have to login to give your opinion about songs. | Jazz / Blues | Bright Lights And Promises | Between The Lines | 4:17 | 42 |  27 votes |
You have to login to give your opinion about songs. | Determined / Way slow / Hope / Solo vocalist / Acoustic / Pop | Walking On Sacred Ground | Breaking Silence | 3:26 | 72 | 17 votes |
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- Spotlighted: Wednesday, October 26th 2005
- Artist site clicks: 151
- Songs on WWR: 32
- Total plays: 1287
- Total requests: 471
- Total listens: 21828
- CDBaby website clicks: 2
- CDBaby referrals: 1
- CDBaby sales: Revenge (Sold 1 copies)
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