Q&A: Janis Ian Out & About by Blake Boldt Grammy Award-winning singer/songwriter Janis Ian has called Music City home for many years now. She's married to long-time Nashville resident and lawyer Pat Snyder, and the two wed in a small Canadian ceremony in 2003.
Janis Ian: Has-Been at 16, Beautiful at 60 HyperVocal If you read Janis Ian's biography you'll learn that she was once forced off the stage by people chanting “nigger lover” at the age of fifteen as a response to her song “Society's Child” about a relationship between a black boy and a white girl.
Oh, Janis Haaretz The iconic American singer Janis Ian performed in Tel Aviv last week. Author Miri Rosovsky wrote her a personal letter. By Miri Rosovsky Tags: Tel Aviv Oh, Janis. I didn't crowd into that awful line after your show to talk to you or to get you to sign ...
Janis: Why I had to come out Irish Independent Janis Ian has never been one to walk away from a challenge. When she was 13, she wrote a song about an inter-racial romance, 'Society's Child', which her record company at the time refused to release and which, when it eventually did see the light of ...
Live Wire / A memento of the 1970s Haaretz By Ben Shalev "I see that some people brought vinyl records with them," Janis Ian said in the middle of the concert. The singer's old records, or to be more precise, a few copies of "Between the Lines," her most famous album were indeed spotted at the ...
Peter Cooper On Music: WannaBeatles keep Beatlemania alive and well The Tennessean (blog) The fans who shared Beatles stories ranged from the regular Joes and Janes to celebrated musicians, including past Grammy winners Janis Ian and Melissa Manchester. “We were sitting around our kitchen table on a Sunday night,” said Manchester, ...
Girls' Night The Musical Waterford Today The show is filled with hit after dance floor hit such as "I Will Survive", "We Are Family", I Am What I Am", "Young Hearts Run Free" and even some more contemplative songs such as the Janis Ian hit "At Seventeen". The cast are all well-known, ...
She learnt the truth at seventeen University Observer Online Janis Ian first became famous for her depiction of an interracial couple in the song she wrote at the age of thirteen, 'Society's Child'. Released in 1966 after over a year of talks with twenty-three record labels, it became an anthem for many of the ...
TV & Movies Lizzy Caplan & Michael Sheen Master Sex In Pilot NewNowNext Lizzy Caplan was Janis Ian (the character who deemed her best friend 'too gay to function”) in Mean Girls and starred as sardonic cater-waiter Casey Klein on cult fave Party Down. Since then, she's picked up bit parts on some of our favorite sitcoms ...
Leonard Cohen Beautiful Loser Exclaim! (blog) Cohen plays the Newport Folk Festival, where he's in a songwriters' workshop alongside Judy Collins, Janis Ian and Joni Mitchell. He and Mitchell start dating, and he lives with her for a month in Laurel Canyon. Collins records three more Cohen songs ...
