Inhoudsopgave
Waar is Janis Joplin geboren?
Port Arthur, Texas, Verenigde Staten
Janis Joplin/Geboorteplaats
Wie is lid van de bekende club van 27?
Het verband werd voor het eerst gelegd toen rond 1970 in korte tijd de 27-jarigen Brian Jones, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin en Jim Morrison overleden. Het idee dat deze personen gezamenlijk een club vormen, ontstond echter pas in 1994, na het overlijden van Kurt Cobain van Nirvana.
Wie zitten er allemaal in de Club van 27?
De 27 club is een naam die wordt gegeven aan een reeks jonge beroemdheden die op 27-jarige leeftijd overleden. Tot deze 27 jarige overleden artiesten behoren onder andere Jimi Hendrix, Jim Morrison, Janis Joplin, Kurt Cobain en recent Amy Winehouse.
Where did Janis Joplin live as a child?
Janis Lyn Joplin was born at St. Mary’s Hospital in the oil-refining town of Port Arthur, Texas, near the border with Louisiana. Her father was a cannery worker and her mother was a registrar for a business college. As an overweight teenager, she was a folk-music devotee (especially Odetta, Leadbelly and Bessie Smith).
Who played Janis Joplin in the movie?
Amy Adams will play Joplin in an upcoming biopic, and the role was a hotly contested one for years. Zooey Deschanel played Joplin in Gospel According to Janis.
Was Janis Joplin the best female rock singer ever?
It’s 50 years since Janis Joplin died of an overdose in Los Angeles aged only 27. Her sad death is the one main fact many people know about her – but for true fans she remains the best female rock singer there’s been.
What happened to Janis Joplin in 1968?
There were appearances by Ravi Shankar, the Jimi Hendrix Experience, Otis Redding and many others. Suddenly Joplin was unrivalled as the leading female rock and blues singer of the era. She remained mainly an album artist but in 1968 had a hit single with her cover of Erma Franklin’s Piece Of My Heart.