Janis Joplin Some Interesting Facts about her Life

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 straight from the heart. She was inspired by blues icons like Lead Belly and Bessie Smith, and she stood in stark contrast to other women singing at the time with a softer, folkier touch. Her energy was fueled by a relentless heroin addiction and heavy drinking—Southern Comfort was her bottle of choice. Behind her bawdy, brassy image was a sensitive, scarred, and shy woman who loved to read. “I’m a victim of my own insides,“ she once said. “There was a time when I wanted to know everything. It used to make me very unhappy, all that feeling. I just didn’t know what to do with it. “But now I’ve learned to make that feeling work for me. I’m full of emotion and I want a release, and if you’re on stage and if it’s really working and you’ve got the audience with you