Janis Lyn Joplin (1943-1970) her powerful and intensely bluesy vocals saw her to become a leading female star of the late 60's, she represents freedom and social rebellion. Janis was an outcast at school, "laughed out of class, out of school, out of town, out of state."
Joplin styled her self after Blues Heroines and Beat Poets. She died of a Heroin over dose the day before she was due to record the vocals for the song 'Buried Alive In The Blues".
"People expect Janis Joplin to be a tough bitch, and say I start talking to them like a lonely little girl-that's not in their image of me-they don't see it. Say you meet somebody you've heard about, you don't ever see them, you don't see who they are and who they need to be recognized as, you see who you need them to be."
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