Janis Joplin

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January 19, 1943

Janis Lyn Joplin

Had a relationship with Kris Kristofferson

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Big Brother and the Holding Company

Big Brother and the Holding Company 1967

Cheap Thrills 1968

Live at Winterland '68 1998

Kozmic Blues Band

I Got Dem Ol' Kozmic Blues Again Mama! 1969

Full Tilt Boogie Band

Pearl 1971

Actress

1967 Ball and Chain (short)

Appearances

2009 Get Yer Ya Ya's Out (video documentary short)

2003 Festival Express (documentary)

2000 Intimate Portrait (TV series documentary)

1995 The History of Rock 'N' Roll, Vol. 6 (TV documentary)

1994 Woodstock Diary (TV documentary)

1990 Woodstock: The Lost Performances (video documentary)

1973 Free (documentary)

1969-1970 The Dick Cavett Show (TV series)

1970 Woodstock (documentary)

1969 This Is Tom Jones (TV series documentary)

1969 The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (TV series)

1969 Music Scene (TV series)

1969 The Ed Sullivan Show (TV series)

1969 Keep on 'Rockin (documentary short)

1968 Monterey Pop (documentary)

1968 The Hollywood Palace (TV series)

1967 Big Brother and the Holding Company: Come Up the Years (TV documentary)

Inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1995.

She was voted the 47th Greatest Artist in Rock 'n' Roll by Rolling Stone.

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Ran away from home at age 17

Dropped out of several colleges and survived off of unemployment checks.

Sang in a country and western band in 1966 in Austin, Texas.

Became involved with alcohol and drugs and eventually succumbed to heroin.

On October 4, 1970, her body was found in her room at Hollywood's Landmark Hotel, face down with fresh puncture marks in her arm. The death was ruled an accidental heroin overdose. She was cremated and her ashes were scattered on the Pacific Ocean.

The 1979 film The Rose, starring Bette Midler, was a thinly veiled account of Joplin's career.

Joplin's former residence in San Francisco's Haight district was converted into a drug rehab center in 1999.

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