Janis Joplin

Janis Lyn Joplin was born on January 19 of 1943 in Texas, USA

From sixteen years old went to black music bars, with this show their discontent with the inequality between races and social classes.

She decided to experiment with forms of artistic expression, and the song was perfect, The first band that was part, was "Big Brother and the Holding Company in 1965" in the city of San Francisco, fascinated for the movement hippie ans social revolutions, His stay in the band finished 1968 and later became part of a new group called "The Cozmic Blues Band".

Years later, as is consangro white blues singer with the band would be his last "Full Tilt Boogie Band", but unfortunately as his success grew, so did the use of drugs and alcohol.

That's how she recorded the album "Pearl", consuming more and more heroin, until the day October 4, 1970 at 27 years old was found dead in a hotel room, the diagnosis, heroin overdose.

I think Janis was a unique singer with an amazing voice, that was a model for many women of the time, however as other rock greats like Jimi Hendrix, Jim Morrison, Kurt Cobain or Amy Winehouse, use heroin as an escape route to the sudden fame, which made ​​her an addict, I end up killing your fusico, but not his music.

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