Janis Ian circa 1970s (left) and in 2023. Singer-songwriter Janis Ian had a Top 20 hit at age 16 with her 1966 debut single "Society's Child" The song, written from the point of view of a young girl ...

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Singer-songwriter-musician Janis Ian celebrates her 74 th birthday today. For most of those years, 60 of them in fact, she has been famous, having rocketed to renown at age 14 with her precocious ...

Janis Ian scores her first-ever appearance on the Rock Digital Song Sales chart as "At Seventeen" reemerges at No. 12 due to renewed listener interest. Portrait of musician Janis Ian at the Old Town ...

Janis Ian wrote “Some People’s Lives” as a tribute to her friend Janis Ian wrote “Some People’s Lives” with songwriter Kye Fleming. Janis Ian was inspired to write “Society’s Child” after observing an ...

This is FRESH AIR. Janis Ian, the singer-songwriter who had her first hit record as a teenager in the 1960s, is the subject of a new documentary, "Janis Ian: Breaking Silence, " now available to ...

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 ...

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 ...

Ian enjoyed an even bigger hit in 1975 with the coming-of-age anthem "At Seventeen," which won a Grammy Singer-songwriter Janis Ian is best known for her 1975 Top 10 single "At Seventeen," but at 16, ...