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Janis Ian

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Janis Ian in Saturday Night Live (1975)
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Janis Ian is an American singer-songwriter who was most commercially successful in the 1960s and 1970s; her most widely recognized song, "At Seventeen", was released as a single from her 1975 album Between the Lines which reached number 1 on the Billboard chart.

Born in New York City, Ian entered the American folk music scene while still a teenager in the mid-1960s. Most active musically in that decade and the 1970s, she has continued recording into the 21st century. She has won two Grammy Awards, the first in 1975 for "At Seventeen" and the second in 2013 for Best Spoken Word Album, for her autobiography, Society's Child, with a total of ten nominations in eight different categories.

Ian is also a columnist and science fiction author.
BornApril 7, 1951
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BornApril 7, 1951
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    • Awards
      • 2 wins & 10 nominations total

    Known for

    Lacey Chabert, Lindsay Lohan, Rachel McAdams, and Amanda Seyfried in Mean Girls (2004)
    Mean Girls
    7.1
    • Soundtrack
    • 2004
    Willem Dafoe, Nicholas Braun, Emily Fairn, Cooper Hoffman, Lamorne Morris, Kim Matula, Dylan O'Brien, Jon Batiste, Ella Hunt, Nicholas Podany, Matt Wood, Gabriel LaBelle, Cory Michael Smith, Finn Wolfhard, Rachel Sennott, and Kaia Gerber in Saturday Night (2024)
    Saturday Night
    6.8
    • Soundtrack
    • 2024
    James Caan, Billy Crudup, Mila Kunis, Marion Cotillard, Clive Owen, Zoe Saldaña, and Matthias Schoenaerts in Blood Ties (2013)
    Blood Ties
    6.5
    • Soundtrack
    • 2013
    Virus (1980)
    Virus
    6.2
    • Soundtrack
    • 1980

    Credits

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    Composer



    • Janis Ian in Janis Ian: Breaking Silence (2024)
      Janis Ian: Breaking Silence
      7.5
      • Composer
      • 2024
    • The Little Photographer (2021)
      The Little Photographer
      Short
      • Composer
      • 2021
    • Joy
      Short
      • Composer
      • 2010
    • Ruby Dreams
      Short
      • Composer
      • 1994
    • Four Rode Out (1969)
      Four Rode Out
      4.5
      • Composer
      • 1969
    • Sunday Father
      6.8
      Short
      • Composer
      • 1969

    Actress



    • American Masters (1985)
      American Masters
      8.2
      TV Series
      • Various
      • 2025
    • Alex Borstein, Laurie Metcalf, Niecy Nash, and Mel Rodriguez in Getting On (2013)
      Getting On
      7.8
      TV Series
      • Mrs. Belfontaine
      • 2015
    • American Music Shop
      8.1
      TV Series
      • 1993
    • Janis Ian: Fly Too High
      Music Video
      • Janis Ian
      • 1979
    • Four Rode Out (1969)
      Four Rode Out
      4.5
      • The Singer
      • 1969

    Music Department



    • Tokyo: The Last War (1989)
      Tokyo: The Last War
      5.6
      • composer: theme song "Heaven Knows"
      • 1989
    • Freedom (1981)
      Freedom
      6.7
      TV Movie
      • songs composed by
      • 1981
    • Happiness Is Loving Your Teacher (1977)
      Happiness Is Loving Your Teacher
      Short
      • song performer
      • 1977

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    Janis Ian: Breaking Silence | Official Trailer

    Personal details

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    • Born
      • April 7, 1951
      • New York City, New York, USA
    • Spouses
        Patricia SnyderAugust 27, 2003 - present
    • Parents
        Victor Martin Fink
    • Relatives
      • Eric Ian Fink(Sibling)
    • Other works
      Album: "Janis Ian"
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      • 1 Print Biography
      • 1 Portrayal
      • 2 Articles

    Did you know

    • Trivia
      Her 1965 song "Society's Child", about a black man dating a white woman, was turned down by 22 record labels because of its subject matter before Verve/Folkways took a chance on it. It eventually sold more than one million copies.
    • Quotes
      [after guesting on a Howard Stern pay-per-view New Year's Eve event] It was the most disgusting thing I ever saw . . . and I hope they invite me back.

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