Janis Ian

**Janis Ian** (born **Janis Eddy Fink**, April 7, 1951) is an American songwriter, singer, musician, columnist, and science fiction writer.  She started singing folk in the mid-sixties while she was still a teenager.  She sang the most in the 1960s and the 1970s, but she's still singing today. In 1975, Ian won a Grammy Award for her song, "At Seventeen".

Ian is openly lesbian and is married to a woman.

### Albums

- _Janis Ian_ (1967) #29 US (Verve) / (1978) (Columbia) / (Bonus Track) (2004) (Festival, Cooking Vinyl UK)
- _For All the Seasons of Your Mind_ (1967) #179 US (Verve)
- _The Secret Life of J. Eddy Fink_ (1968) (Verve)
- _Who Really Cares_ (1969) (Verve)
- _Present Company_ (1971) #223 US (Capitol)
- _Stars_ (1974) #83 US, #63 (Columbia) / (Bonus Track) (2004) (Festival, Cooking Vinyl)
- _Between the Lines_ (1975) #1 US, #22 Japan (Columbia, Festival) / (Bonus Track) (2004) (Festival, Cooking Vinyl UK)
- _Aftertones_ (1976) #12 US, #1 Japan (Columbia) / (Bonus Track) (2004) (Festival, Cooking Vinyl UK)
- _Miracle Row_ (1977) #45 US, #26 Japan (Columbia) /  (Bonus Track) (2004) (Festival, Cooking Vinyl UK)
- _Night Rains_ (1979) (Columbia)
- _Restless Eyes_ (1981) #156 US (Columbia)
- _Uncle Wonderful_ (1983) (Festival) (Australia only)
- _Breaking Silence_ (1993) (Morgan Creek) / (Bonus Track) (2003) (Festival, Cooking Vinyl UK)
- _Simon Renshaw Presents: Janis Ian Shares Your Pain_ (1995) (not released until 12.09)
- _Revenge_ (1995) (Beacon)
- _Hunger_ (1997) (Windham Hill)
- _god & the fbi_ (2000) (Windham Hill) / (3 Bonus Tracks) (2000) (JVC Japan)
- _Lost Cuts 1_ (2001) (Rude Girl)
- _Billie's Bones_ (2004) (Oh Boy, Rude Girl Cooking Vinyl US)s_
- _Night Rains_ (Bonus Track) (2004) (Festival, Cooking Vinyl UK)
- _Billie's Bones_ (Bonus Track) (2004) (JVC Japan)
- _Folk is the New Black_ (2006) (Rude Girl) / (With DVD) (2006) (Evasound)
- _Revenge_ (Bonus Track) (2006) (Cooking Vinyl UK 2003) (WEA)
- _Strictly Solo_ (2014)
- _Hope_ (2020)
- _The Light at the End of the Line_ (2021)

### Compilation albums

- _Remember_ (1978) (JVC Japan)
- _The Best of Janis Ian_ (1980) (CBS)
- _My Favourites_ (1980) (CBS)
- _Stars/Night Rains_ (Double Album) (1987) (CBS)
- _At Seventeen_ (1990) (CBS)
- _Up 'Til Now_ (1992) (Sony)
- _Society's Child: The Verve Recordings_ (1995) (Polydor)
- _Live on the Test 1976_ (1995) (BBC World Wide)
- _Unreleased 1: Mary's Eyes_ (1998) (Rude Girl)
- _The Bottom Line Encore Collection_ (1999) (Velvet)
- _The Best of Janis Ian_ (2002) (Festival)
- _Live: Working Without a Net_ (2003) (Rude Girl)
- _Souvenirs: Best of 1972-1981 (US CD)_ (2004) (Rude Girl) / (Japan CD)_ (2004) (JVC Japan) / (CD/DVD)_ (2006) (Evasound)
- _Unreleased 2: Take No Prisoners_ (2006) (Rude Girl)
- _Unreleased 3: Society's Child_ (2006) (Rude Girl)
- _Ultimate Best_ (2007) (JVC Victory)
- _Best of Janis Ian: Autobiography Collection_ (2008) (Rude Girl)
- _The Essential Janis Ian_ (2009)

### Singles

|align="left"|Year|align="left"|Title|align="center" width="40"|<small>**U.S.**</small>|align="center" width="40"|<small>**U.S.**</small>|align="center" width="40"|<small>**U.S. A/C**</small>|align="center" width="40"|<small>**UK**</small>|align="center" width="40"|<small>**JAP**</small>|
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|rowspan=2|1967|align="left"|"Society's Child (Baby I've Been Thinking)"|align="center"|14|align="center"|13|align="center"|–|align="center"|–|align="center"|–|
|align="left"|"Insanity Comes Quietly to the Structured Mind"|align="center"|109|align="center"|82|align="center"|–|align="center"|–|align="center"|–|||
|align="left"|1974|align="left"|"The Man You Are in Me"|align="center"|104|align="center"|–|align="center"|33|align="center"|–|align="center"|–|
|rowspan=3|1975|align="left"|"When the Party's Over"|align="center"|–|align="center"|–|align="center"|20|align="center"|–|align="center"|–|
|align="left"|"At Seventeen"|align="center"|3|align="center"|1|align="center"|1|align="center"|–|align="center"|–|||
|align="left"|"In the Winter"|align="center"|–|align="center"|97|align="center"|21|align="center"|–|align="center"|–|||
|rowspan=5|1976|align="left"|"Boy I Really Tied One On"|align="center"|–|align="center"|–|align="center"|43|align="center"|–|align="center"|–|
|align="left"|"I Would Like to Dance"|align="center"|–|align="center"|–|align="center"|28|align="center"|–|align="center"|–|||
|align="left"|"Roses"|align="center"|–|align="center"|–|align="center"|37|align="center"|–|align="center"|–|||
|align="left"|"Love Is Blind"|align="center"|–|align="center"|–|align="center"|–|align="center"|–|align="center"|1|||
|align="left"|"Between the Lines"|align="center"|–|align="center"|–|align="center"|–|align="center"|–|align="center"|90|||
|align="left"|1977|align="left"|"Will You Dance?"|align="center"|–|align="center"|–|align="center"|–|align="center"|–|align="center"|40|
|align="left"|1978|align="left"|"That Grand Illusion"|align="center"|–|align="center"|–|align="center"|43|align="center"|–|align="center"|–|
|align="left"|1979|align="left"|"Fly Too High"|align="center"|–|align="center"|–|align="center"|–|align="center"|44|align="center"|–|
|rowspan=2|1980|align="left"|"You Are Love"|align="center"|–|align="center"|–|align="center"|–|align="center"|–|align="center"|10|
|align="left"|"The Other Side of the Sun"|align="center"|–|align="center"|–|align="center"|47|align="center"|44|align="center"|–|||
|align="left"|1981|align="left"|"Under the Covers"|align="center"|71|align="center"|–|align="center"|–|align="center"|–|align="center"|–|

### DVDs

- _Live at Club Cafe_ (2005) (Rude Girl)
- _Janismania_ (2005) (Rude Girl)
- _Through the Years: A Retrospective_ (2007) (Rude Girl)
- _Janis Ian '79: Live in Japan & Australia'' (2008) (Rude Girl)

## Other websites

- Official website
- Janis Ian's Pearl Foundation
- Janis Ian interview on Slashdot
- 2006 interview
- Janis Ian archive on NPR Music

## Infobox (musical artist)

- **name**: Janis Ian
- **img**: Janis Ian.jpg
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- **landscape**: no
- **background**: solo_singer
- **birth name**: Janis Eddy Fink
- **birth place**: New York City, United States
- **genre**: Folk music, Folk, Contemporary music
- **occupation**: Musician, songwriter, writer
- **years active**: 1965–present
- **label**: Rude Girl Records
Columbia Records
Verve Records
Windham Hill Records
- **url**: http://www.janisian.com/