Janis Joplin

Janis Lyn Joplin (January 19, 1943 – October 4, 1970) was an American singer, songwriter and music arranger. She rose to prominence in the late 1960s as the lead singer of Big Brother and the Holding Company and later as a solo artist. 
== Books about Janis ==
:1973 - Buried Alive - a Biography of Janis Joplin by Myra Friedman 
:1973 - Going Down With Janis by Peggy Caserta
:1992 - Love, Janis by Laura Joplin 
:1992 - Pearl: The Obsessions and Passions of Janis Joplin: A Biography by Ellis Amburn