Grammy Winner Janis Ian On Career That Began At Age 14, And Bonds With Janis Joplin, Pete Seeger, Nina Simone & More
Singer-songwriter-musician Janis Ian celebrates her 74th birthday today.
For most of those years, 60 of them in fact, she has been famous, having rocketed to renown at age 14 with her precocious debut single “Society’s Child,” a song about what was at the time the very taboo subject of an interracial romance. As she enters her mid-70s, Ian is the focus of the new documentary Janis Ian: Breaking Silence, a film directed by Varda Bar-Kar that charts the remarkable trajectory of her life and career.
Bar-Kar (Fandango at the Wall) says the inspiration to make the film came after a period of personal reflection.
Janis Ian and director Varda-Bar-Kar on March 28, 2025 in New York City
“I started to think about my own identity and whether I feel represented in film and media. And I decided that I don’t,” she explained at a Q&a following a showing of the...
For most of those years, 60 of them in fact, she has been famous, having rocketed to renown at age 14 with her precocious debut single “Society’s Child,” a song about what was at the time the very taboo subject of an interracial romance. As she enters her mid-70s, Ian is the focus of the new documentary Janis Ian: Breaking Silence, a film directed by Varda Bar-Kar that charts the remarkable trajectory of her life and career.
Bar-Kar (Fandango at the Wall) says the inspiration to make the film came after a period of personal reflection.
Janis Ian and director Varda-Bar-Kar on March 28, 2025 in New York City
“I started to think about my own identity and whether I feel represented in film and media. And I decided that I don’t,” she explained at a Q&a following a showing of the...
- 4/7/2025
- by Matthew Carey
- Deadline Film + TV
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