Janis Ian

One of America's most important singer and songwriters, Janis Ian melds intimate personal insights with sociopolitical polemics, and has never been afraid to share her secrets or her opinions with her audience through her intelligently melodic songs. Ian's career has gone through three distinct stages. She had an initial burst of fame as a teenager with a precocious gift for social and political commentary as documented on her self-titled 1967 debut album and its hit single "Society's Child." She returned to the public eye in the mid-'70s with deeply personal songs about life ...