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Audiences like their blues singers to be miserable.

Janis Joplin

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