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- Birth nameJanis Eddy Fink
- Janis Ian is an American singer-songwriter who was most commercially successful in the 1960s and 1970s; her most widely recognized song, "At Seventeen", was released as a single from her 1975 album Between the Lines which reached number 1 on the Billboard chart.
Born in New York City, Ian entered the American folk music scene while still a teenager in the mid-1960s. Most active musically in that decade and the 1970s, she has continued recording into the 21st century. She has won two Grammy Awards, the first in 1975 for "At Seventeen" and the second in 2013 for Best Spoken Word Album, for her autobiography, Society's Child, with a total of ten nominations in eight different categories.
Ian is also a columnist and science fiction author.- IMDb Mini Biography By: Bazza the Beast
- SpousesPatricia Snyder(August 27, 2003 - present)Tino Mendes Sargo(September 17, 1978 - 1985) (divorced)Eric J Sterling(July 9, 1972 - ?) (divorced)
- First musical guest (with Billy Preston) to feature on the television premiere of Saturday Night Live (1975) (11 October 1975). George Carlin was host.
- Her 1965 song "Society's Child", about a black man dating a white woman, was turned down by 22 record labels because of its subject matter before Verve/Folkways took a chance on it. It eventually sold more than one million copies.
- Her real name is Janis Fink. "Ian" is her brother's first name.
- Recorded the song "My Tennessee Hills" with country legend Dolly Parton for her 2004 album "Billie's Bones".
- Her The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour (1967) appearance was censored in several US television markets, when she performed "Society's Child"--her song about the then-controversial issue of interracial dating.
- [after guesting on a Howard Stern pay-per-view New Year's Eve event] It was the most disgusting thing I ever saw . . . and I hope they invite me back.
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