Janis Joplin
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The greatest white female rock singer of the 1960s, Janis Joplin was also a great blues singer, making her material her own with her wailing, raspy, supercharged emotional delivery. First rising to stardom as the frontwoman for San Francisco psychedelic band Big Brother & the Holding Company, she left the group in the late '60s for a brief and uneven (though commercially successful)... Read More
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laurahippieprospe
August 27, 2009 - 07:56 PM GMT
Of the 60's? In my opinion, y con permiso de Bessie Smith, Billie Holliday y Aretha, the best of all times appart from my beloved Patti Smith. But I understand there´s people who don´t like Patti, or who think her voice isn´t good. Well, everybody can think what they want, or that´s what they want us to bellieve. Like u americans say always: "we live in a free country". Sorry, that makes me laugh (or cry sometimes), but still I think no one can be compared to the great Janis Joplin. Forever. Thanks. Laura (from Spain). LOVE.This is one of the things u Americans have to be proud of, very proud of.. This woman was unique.