Janis Joplin
(January 19, 1943 - October 4, 1970) U.S.A.
Rocksinger
 Blues and acid-rock singer, Joplin was born in Texas. She became a symbol and a victim of the 1960s drug culture. She was lead singer with the San Francisco group "Big Brothers", and the "Holding Company" from 1966, and started a solo career in 1969 with the album Kozmic Blues. Her biggest hit Kris Kristofferson's Me and Bobby McGee was released in 1971, after her death.
"Joplin's offstage life was as unabashed as her onstage performances, and she readily acknowledged sleeping with women as well as men, and sometimes both at the same time."
In Peggy Casertas's biography of the blues belter "Going Down with Janis" she notes that of Joplin's innumerable lovers, there were, "more women than men."
Quote source: Rutledge, L. The Gay Book of Lists. Alyson, 2003 edition, p. 88 - et alii
Hits:
- Kozmic Blues (1969)
- Me and Bobby McGee (1971)
- Cry Baby (1971)
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