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I always wanted to be an artist, whatever that was, like other chicks want to be stewardesses. I read. I painted. I thought.

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Janis Joplin
Age: 27 †
Born: 1943
Born: January 19
Died: 1970
Died: October 4
Composer
Guitarist
Musician
Recording Artist
Singer
Singer-Songwriter
Port Arthur
Texas
Janis Lyn Joplin
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Stewardesses
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