The blues-rock singer Janis Joplin was born in Texas changed during her short career of an itinerant folkie feminist in a blue icon for the psychedelic sixties generation, all in the space of just four years. Although they began as a solo singer she became rapidly famous as the lead singer of the psychedelic blues rockers Big Brother & The Holding Company, the Bay Area of San Francisco. In
… everything she was excessive - voice, image and personality - which made her a star was born. Eventually she turned a bit too big for the limitations of Big Brother and they went on solopad. Her breakthrough album was recorded just before she died, so there's a tragic aura around her small body of work.more