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Ephemera Awards Film Credits Career Highlights INCORRECT ASSUMPTIONS AND INFORMATION
Yes, her birth name was Janis Eddy Fink after her father’s cousin (“...who died at thirteen - I used to worry about that”). She picked Ian because it was her brother’s middle name, not because of James Bond and Ian Fleming (“My mother said she would divorce me if I became Jasmine Thompson like I wanted”). She changed it legally as soon as she could. She did not graduate from New York’s High School of Music & Art. She attended for six months, during most of which she was on the road. She was asked to leave during 10th grade. She finds it ironic that they now claim her as a “success story”. She did not graduate from high school. She did not go to Swathmore. She did turn down Woodstock (“although maybe I
was there and just don’t remember!”) She was the first performer to sing on Saturday Night Live, on their very first show. (“I saw this Jim guy playing with puppets behind a big wall and thought ‘Oh great, what have I gotten myself into now?’”) She did the show with strep throat and a fever of 103. She was not married four times, as has been reported in the press. (“Oh, for Pete’s sake!”) She was married once, to a Portuguese man named Tino Sargo; they married in 1978 and separated in 1983. She has no children. Vance Gilbert is not her son by Jimi Hendrix. Nor is he her son by Richie Havens, even though all three of them are good friends. Society’s Child was not written about Vance, but he is a very good writer and performer even without her genes. Yes she did know Jimi. Yes she did know Janis Joplin. Yes she knew a lot of other famous dead people. No she does not like talking about them. Her birthday is not May 7th, it’s April 7th. That makes her a triple Aries, for those of you who care. She has lived in Nashville, TN. since 1988. She & her partner Pat have been together since 1989. Pat has very little patience with the music industry, will not sign autographs, & loathes having her picture taken. She is an oasis of sanity. Janis has no hobbies, although she sometimes wonders if life would be easier if she’d been an archaeologist. She does, however, read an awful lot, mostly science fiction. She lives for used bookstores. If you want to make her happy, bring her a book.
AWARDS, HONORS, AND STUFF
Four Rode Out (1967) starring Sue Lyons & Pernell Roberts; title & score + 4 songs. Sunday Father (1968) directed by Paul Leaf, starring Dustin Hoffman; title & score + 6 songs. Japanese TV show “Goodbye Mama”, ran for 5 years Love Is Blind Japanese TV show "Kishibe No Album”, ran for 5 years Will You Dance The Bell Jar (1978) starring Julie Harris; title + theme Here Comes the Night. Betrayal (1979) title, theme, 2 additional songs. Foxes (1979) directed by Adrian Lyme, starring Jodie Foster; title Fly Too High. Virus (1980) title When the Rainbow’s Gone and theme You Are Love. Freedom (1981) ABC TV Movie Of the Week starring Mare Winningham; theme, title + six songs. Murder She Wrote (1988) two songs Charm the Skin Off A Snake & Lucky. Falling From Grace (1990) directed by John Mellencamp; Days Like These The Simpsons (1995) one song in two episodes. Tracy Ullman (1996) two songs in two episodes. General Hospital (1996) featured When Angels Cry in 6 separate episodes. All My Children (1998) Hunger Kishenobo (weekly Japanese television drama) (1998/1999) theme song Will You Dance? Teaching Mrs. Tingle (1999) top At Seventeen Desert Blue (1999) end title Sweet Misery Two Guys & A Girl TV series (1999) one song Popular (1999) one song Fuji Film, Japan (1999) 1 year television commercial; theme song Will You Dance? The Monkey’s Mask (1999) Fly Too High remix The Little Photographer (1999) Society’s Child Dawson’s Creek (1999) Getting Over You Get Real (2000) On the Other Side Freedom Sings (2000) Society’s Child Dawson’s Creek (2000) Days Like These All My Children (2000) The Last Comeback America’s Most Wanted (2001) Breaking Silence COMMERCIALS Coca-Cola “It’s The Real Thing” campaign 1967 - "Society's Child" hits #1/ nominated for Grammy - Best Folk Album 1974 - Roberta Flack hits top 10 with "Jesse". Years later Puff Daddy samples it on "Pain". 1975 - Between the Lines recieves 5 Grammy nods, winning Best Bop Female Performance and Best Engineering. 1976 - "Love is Blind" hits #1 in Japan for 6 months 1977 - "Will You Dance" #1 in Japan for 3 months 1978 - Grammy nomination for Best Jazz Duet on "Silly Habits" with Mel Torme. 1979 - Fly Too High" is #1 in 7 countries, top 20 in U.S. 1982 - Wins Grammy for children's record IN Harmony II. 1992 - After 10 year hiatus, emerges with Grammy nominated Best Contemporary Folk Album Breaking Silence. 1997 - Signs 7 album deal with BMG/Windham Hill 1998 - Raises $73,000 in online auction of her personal memorabilia to fund The Pearl Foundation Scholarship Fund in memory of her mother. 1999 - Headlines with Jewel, Paula Cole and Phoebe Snow at Zero Population Growth benefit in MAdison Square Garden. 2000 - Signed deal with Hawk Publishing for re-issue of her poetry book Who Really Cares, originally published in 1967 by Dial Press. Reissue includes a new Foreword as well as poems not included in the original version. Extensive touring in the U.S>, U.K., Eire, Scotland, and Holland 2001 First short story published on fictionwise.com, entitled Waterskiing Down the Styx, co-written with Mike Resnick. Toured Australia to great acclaim. Performed over 110 live performances, a career record for one year. 2002 - Inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame for Society's Child. 2002 - Days Like These licensed for use in HBO's original series OZ and American Embassy. 2003 - Signed contracts with various manufacturers ensuring the the entire back catalogue would be available worldwide. 2003 - Authored "The Internat Debacle: An Alternate View" for Performing Songwriter, which is quickly released to the internet and sparks a firestorm of controversy. Article is quickly "Slashdotted, is posted on over 1,000 websites, , is translated into nine languages, and featured on the BBC and TechTV. 2003 - First graduating class of Pearl Foundation recipients. JANIS’ SONGS HAVE
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