Janis Lyn Joplin was born on Jan. 19, 1943 in the Gulf Coast oil town of Port Arthur, Texas. Her father worked for Texaco, and her mother was a college registrar. American Stock / Getty Images ...

Janis Lyn Joplin, the oldest child of Seth and Dorothy Joplin, was born Jan. 19, 1943. Advertisement. Article continues below this ad • Dad's workplace: Texaco Refinery, 25th Street.

Janis Joplin has passed into the realm of legend: an outwardly brash and inwardly vulnerable personality who possessed one of the most passionate voices in rock history. She is beloved around the ...

Janis Lyn Joplin was born on Jan. 19, 1943, in Port Arthur, Texas and had a "typical upbringing" in the area, according to a Visit Port Arthur page on the singer's life, stating that Joplin ...

Early on, we learn, young Janis Lyn Joplin got kicked out of her high-school choir and, according to a childhood friend, “couldn’t figure out how to make herself like everybody else.” ...

They don't teach kids about the "old, weird America" in school. Though rooted in fierce independence, its study would scare the goody two-shoes and give the mischievous a head start down the ...

Janis Joplin was a beloved rock and roll icon, even years before her tragic OD death. Her passionate music, colorful spirit and immeasurable talent made her unforgettable to every person that met ...

The Ivoryton Playhouse will present the 2014 Tony Award-nominated 2013 Broadway Musical A Night With Janis Joplin, written and directed by Randy Johnson, from May 30 to June 24, 2018.

Princeton's McCarter Theatre Center is a busy place this weekend with both "A Night With Janis Joplin," the new show opening officially at the Matthews Theatre for a run through October 29, and ...

Janis Lyn Joplin was an American singer considered the premier female blues vocalist of the Sixties; her raw, powerful and uninhibited singing style, combined ...

Janis Joplin was a singer like no other. Her career was brief, yet her music remains powerful and moving. The singer from Port Arthur, Texas, had incomparable vocals that were unfettered, raw, and ...