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Janis Ian is having the last word. Now 70, Ian has been a touring and recording force since her teens, earning nine Grammy nominations and two wins and having two of her songs, 1967's “Society’s Child ...

Janis Ian has had a long musical career beginning with the 1966 chart-topping song about an interracial relationship called "Society's Child." It was written when she was just 14. Now at 70, Janis Ian ...

Folk music icon Janis Ian, performing on Mountain Stage as part of her final tour in April 2021. This week’s encore episode of Mountain Stage was recorded in Morgantown, WV last April on the campus of ...

Janis Ian will receive a lifetime achievement award at the International Folk Music Awards, which will be held at the Sheraton Kansas City Hotel at Crown Center in Kansas City, Mo., on Feb. 1 – the ...

Janis Ian’s song “At Seventeen” spoke to audiences of all kinds and had a universal relevance. Janis Ian wrote “At Seventeen” about the “pain of adolescence” and not fitting in, but the themes of the ...

Singer and songwriter, Janis Ian, had her initial burst of fame as a teenager with her self-titled 1967 debut album and its hit single "Society's Child." She returned to the public eye in the mid-'70s ...

Singer/songwriter Janis Ian will always have a special place in my heart. Janis was the first artist I ever interviewed at the beginning of my journalism career. It was 1994, after the release of what ...

The "Society's Child" singer-songwriter discusses the life-changing experience in the new documentary 'Janis Ian: Breaking Silence' Singer-songwriter Janis Ian had a Top 20 hit at age 16 with her 1966 ...

Ian had her first hit record as a teenager in the 1960s and went on to win two Grammys. A new documentary tells her life story through a combination of vintage footage and newly recorded interviews.

It seems that Janis Ian is almost ready to hang up her microphone after a career that has spanned more than 50 years. She’s already announced that her last studio album, “The Light at the End of the ...