Janis Lyn Joplin

Janis Lyn Joplin

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Janis Lyn Joplin Wiki Biography

  • Janis Lyn Joplin was born on January 19, 1943, in Port Arthur, Texas, and died on October 4, 1970, in Los Angeles, California, United States. 
  • She was best known for her four albums, “Big Brother And The Holding Company” (1967), “Cheap Thrills” (1968), “I Got Dem Ol’ Kozmic Blues Again Mama!” (1969), and “Pearl” (1970). 
  • From 1962 to 1970, she was involved in the music industry. 
  • So, have you ever wondered what Janis Joplin’s net worth was? 
  • Janis’s net worth was reported to be over $5 million by reputable sources, and it was earned through her active participation in the music scene as a singer. 
  • Janis Joplin was raised by her parents, Dorothy Bonita East, a registrar at a business college, and Seth Ward Joplin, an engineer, with two younger siblings. 
  • She began singing at a young age and became a member of a local choir. 
  • She graduated with honors from Thomas Jefferson High School in 1960. 
  • She then enrolled at the Lamar State College of Technology in Beaumont, Texas, and then moved to the University of Texas at Austin; however, she did not complete her education because she decided to pursue a career in music instead. 
  • Janis began her career in the early 1960s, collaborating with Jorma Kaukonen, who later went on to become the guitarist for the successful band Jefferson Airplane, on many iconic blues standards, including “Typewriter Talk,” “Kansas City Blues,” and “Nobody Knows You When You’re Down And Out.” 
  • She became addicted to drugs, however, and returned home to enter a recovery clinic. 
  • Janis returned to her musical career after a few years of drug-free living and was discovered by the band Big Brother And Holding Business. 
  • She became a member of the band and recorded two albums with them before deciding to pursue a solo career. 
  • During this time, her net worth started to rise as a result of the band’s popularity, and she was recognized as the decade’s top female blues singer, partially due to her rugged yet managed voice and emotional renditions. 
  • In terms of her solo career, Janis released one album, “I Got Dem Ol’ Kozmic Blues Again Mama!”, which charted at No. 5 in the US Top 200 and was certified platinum, raising her net worth significantly. 
  • Janis won several awards as a result of her talents, but the majority of them came after her death, including induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1995 and the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 2005. 
  • Janis Joplin died at the age of 27 from an ostensibly accidental heroin overdose when it comes to her personal life. 
  • Wikipedia IMDB the amount of $5 million The year was 1943. 
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Janis Lyn Joplin Quick Info

Full Name Janis Joplin
Net Worth $5 Million
Date Of Birth January 19, 1943
Died 1970-10-04
Place Of Birth Port Arthur, Texas, United States
Height 5′ 6″ (1.68 m)
Profession The soundtrack, Actress, Cinematographer
Education University of Texas at Austin, Lamar University, Memorial High School
Nationality American
Parents Dorothy Joplin, Seth Joplin, Me and Bobby McGee, Piece of My Heart, Kozmic Blues
Siblings Laura Joplinová, Michael Joplin, Me and Bobby McGee, Piece of My Heart, Kozmic Blues
IMDB http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0429767/
Awards Grammy Hall of Fame, Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award, Me and Bobby McGee, Piece of My Heart, Kozmic Blues
Music Groups Big Brother and the Holding Company, Full Tilt Boogie Band, Kozmic Blues Band, Me and Bobby McGee, Piece of My Heart, Kozmic Blues
Nominations Grammy Award for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance

Janis Lyn Joplin Trademarks

  1. Shoulder-length brown hair
  2. Distinctive raspy voice

Janis Lyn Joplin Quotes

  • Most television shows are such shit, like selling plastic raindrops.
  • Tomorrow never happens. It’s all the same fucking day man.
  • Oh Lord, won’t you buy me a Mercedes Benz? My friends all drive Porches, I must make amends.
  • I’m a victim of my own insides. There was a time when I wanted to know everything. It used to make me very unhappy, all that feeling. I just didn’t know what to do with it. But now I’ve learned to make that feeling work for me. I’m full of emotion and I want a release, and if you’re on stage and if it’s really working and you’ve got the audience with you, it’s an oneness you feel.
  • I don’t believe in gate-crashing. The people aren’t up there when I’m sweating on a stage at a festival, breaking my ass. You can get the money to buy a concert ticket, man. Sell your old lady, sell your dope. Look at me, man, I’m selling my heart.
  • They’re frauds, the whole goddamn hippie culture. They bitch about brainwashing from their parents and they do the same damn thing. I’ve never known one of those people who would tolerate any way of life but their own.
  • You know, I have to have the umph. I’ve got to feel it because if it’s not getting through to me, the audience sure as hell aren’t going to feel it either.
  • [asked by a reporter what “acid rock” was] I wouldn’t know. I’m a juicer.
  • On stage, I make love to 25,000 different people, then I go home alone.
  • My advice to everyone is to come to California and I’ll buy you a drink.

Janis Lyn Joplin Important Facts

  • Her passing was acknowledged in Don McLean’s classic song “American Pie”: “I met a girl who sang the blues/And I asked her for some happy news/But she just smiled and turned away.”.
  • She was posthumously awarded a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for Recording at 6752 Hollywood Boulevard in Hollywood, California on November 4, 2013.
  • Pictured on a USA non-denominated commemorative postage stamp in the Music Icons series, issued 8 August 2014. The price on the day of the issue was 49¢.
  • Along with Grace Slick, she was one of the first female rock stars and an important figure in rock music’s directed change in the late 1960s.
  • Died at 27 years old, making her a member of the “27 Club”; the 27 Club is a group of prominent musicians who died at the age of 27. Other members include The Rolling Stones co-founder Brian Jones, guitarist Jimi Hendrix, The Doors frontman Jim Morrison, Amy Winehouse, and Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain.
  • Played by Janelle Powers in Hollywood Mouth 2 (2014).
  • Her good friend and former lover, Kris Kristofferson, has on numerous occasions stated that he is sure she did not commit suicide, but also believes that the course that Janis had chosen to take was a dangerous, self-destructive one, a fact of which he knows she was also aware.
  • The manual dexterity displayed during the very last moments of life (changing a five-dollar bill, using a cigarette machine, and undressing despite drunkenness and expectation of a heroin high) was a lifelong trait. Biographer Myra Friedman was told by Joplin’s parents that when they interacted with other new parents in Port Arthur, Texas in the 1940s, everyone noticed their first-born child’s dexterity with eating utensils, drinking glasses, and napkins. The Joplins often took their toddler to the homes of other new parents to demonstrate these motor skills. Regularly drove drunk in California (in her custom-built Porsche) during the last two years of her life. No accidents were ever reported (in newspapers or several biographies), and only one instance of getting pulled over is noted (in a book by Peggy Caserta, who claimed the officer recognized the singer and let her go with a warning). Only one known injury during a performance, which happened in College Park, Maryland, and turned out to be a source of humor on The Dick Cavett Show (1968). Manual dexterity and the appearance of controlling her own destiny, no matter how drunk or stoned, diverted many people’s attention from the possibility of imminent death. However, personal manager Albert Grossman expected it and (in June 1969) took out a $200,000 insurance policy on his client in case of accidental death. Grossman, famous for signing the young Bob Dylan, collected $112,000 from the San Francisco Associated Indemnity Corporation almost four years after his female client’s “accident”. During a three-week trial in the New York State Supreme Court, Grossman swore under oath he had not known in June 1969 that Joplin used heroin. He won the 1974 case against the insurer despite its efforts to prove Joplin’s death had been a suicide.
  • Canadian singer-songwriter Leonard Cohen penned “Chelsea Hotel #2” about her.
  • Was high school classmates, in Port Arthur, with former Dallas Cowboys coach Jimmy Johnson, who gave her her nickname “Beat Weeds”.
  • Frankie Hart in American Pop (1981) was partially based on her and partially on Jefferson Airplane singer Grace Slick.
  • Wrote her will shortly before her death. Drawing up the document with her Los Angeles lawyer, she set aside $2500 for her friends to throw a party in the event of her death. After she died of a heroin overdose on October 4, 1970, her friends followed her wishes and threw a party in her honor at a club in San Anselmo, California. The party invitations read: “Drinks are on Pearl”. Younger sister Laura Joplin, six years her junior, was among those who attended.
  • October 4, 1970: Died of a heroin overdose while she was legally drunk in Room 105 of the Landmark Motor Hotel located next door to the Magic Castle in Los Angeles, California. After she mainlined the drug, she was able to leave her room, walk to the lobby, ask the desk clerk to change a five-dollar bill so she could spend 50 cents on a pack of cigarettes, pull the ridged knob on the cigarette machine, return to her room and remove some of her clothes. She then fell suddenly, breaking her nose. The desk clerk later stated that while he was giving her change she talked happily about the new album she was recording, although he believed, based on having interacted with her since her August 24 check-in, that she “was not a happy person”. Her body was discovered approximately 18 hours later by her road manager, who was the son of Alistair Cooke.
  • Posthumously inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1995.
  • Was cremated and her ashes were scattered on the Pacific Ocean.
  • Loved to drink Southern Comfort.
  • Was good friends with Grace Slick and Kris Kristofferson. Kristofferson wrote her song “Me and Bobby McGee”, which became her only 45 single to reach #1 on the Billboard chart.
  • Was friends with Jimi Hendrix.
  • She was voted the 47th Greatest Artist in Rock ‘n’ Roll by Rolling Stone.
  • Ranked #3 on VH1’s 100 Greatest Women of Rock N Roll
  • In 2001, Topps trading cards, in their American Pie Baseball brand produced a “Piece of American Pie” memorabilia inserts set that included a Joplin-worn dress that is seen on her album “Pearl”.
  • Was the oldest of three children: has a younger sister, Laura Joplin, and a younger brother, Michael Joplin.
  • Was arrested for using “vulgar and indecent language” while performing at Curtis Hixon Hall in Tampa, Florida on November 16, 1969. Unlike Jim Morrison, who was arrested onstage in the middle of his Florida performance earlier in 1969, Joplin was allowed to finish her concert and then got handcuffed by police backstage. Was released on a $504 bond after spending approximately an hour behind bars. During the four days, she remained in the Tampa/St. Petersburg area awaiting a preliminary hearing, she went fishing. At the hearing, she was advised by a local lawyer she hired, Herbert Goldberg, that jail time was unlikely. A photographer for Associated Press captured the two of them leaving police headquarters after the proceedings. The image shows Joplin, clad in a fur coat, grinning and flashing a “V” sign with her fingers. Goldberg looks displeased. Joplin made a point of telling the AP that her sign stood for “victory, not peace”. The following March she was fined $200 in absentia and the case was closed without her ever returning to Tampa. Curtis Hixon Hall has been demolished.
  • Was a member of the Glee Club and the Future Teachers of America while in high school.

Janis Lyn Joplin Filmography

Title Year Status Character Role
Ochéntame… Otra Vez 2016 TV Series documentary writer – 1 episode Soundtrack
Vinyl 2016 TV Series performer – 1 episode Soundtrack
Colonia 2015 performer: “TRY JUST A LITTLE BIT HARDER” Soundtrack
Australian Story 2014 TV Series documentary performer – 1 episode Soundtrack
She’s Beautiful When She’s Angry 2014 Documentary performer: “Piece of My Heart” Soundtrack
Mad Men 2013 TV Series performer – 1 episode Soundtrack
Bank Roll 2012 performer: “As Good as You’ve Been to This World” Soundtrack
Voice – Danmarks største stemme 2012 TV Series writer – 1 episode Soundtrack
Aufgspuit! 2012 TV Series writer – 1 episode Soundtrack
Les Lyonnais 2011 “MOVE OVER” / writer: “MOVE OVER” Soundtrack
So You Think You Can Dance 2011 TV Series performer – 1 episode Soundtrack
American Idol 2011 TV Series performer – 1 episode Soundtrack
Gent de paraula 2011 TV Series performer – 1 episode Soundtrack
A Little Bit of Heaven 2011 writer: “Mercedes Benz” Soundtrack
Les petits mouchoirs 2010 performer: “Kozmic Blues” / writer: “Kozmic Blues” Soundtrack
Entourage 2010 TV Series performer – 1 episode Soundtrack
A Mulher Invisível 2009 performer: “A Woman Left Lonely” Soundtrack
Taking Woodstock 2009 performer: “Try Just a Little Bit Harder” Soundtrack
Watchmen 2009 performer: “Me and Bobby McGee” Soundtrack
Banda Sonora 2007-2008 TV Series performer – 3 episodes Soundtrack
Le premier jour du reste de ta vie 2008 performer: “Summertime” Soundtrack
Queridos Amigos 2008 TV Mini-Series performer – 1 episode Soundtrack
Esti chowder 2007 TV Series writer – 1 episode Soundtrack
Introducing the Dwights 2007 performer: “Piece of My Heart”, “Move Over” / writer: “Move Over” Soundtrack
Shakespeare-Told 2005 TV Mini-Series writer – 1 episode Soundtrack
Romance & Cigarettes 2005 performer: “Piece of My Heart” Soundtrack
Crossroads: A Jared Feldschreiber Film 2004 Short performer: “Piece of my Heart” Soundtrack
Boston Public 2004 TV Series performer – 1 episode Soundtrack
Idol 2002-2003 TV Series writer – 2 episodes Soundtrack
Waking the Dead 2003 TV Series writer – 1 episode Soundtrack
Festival Express 2003 Documentary performer: “Cry Baby”, “Ain’t No More Cane”, “Tell Mama”, “Me & Bobby McGee” Soundtrack
Janis et John 2003 arranger: “Down On Me” Live / performer: “Down On Me” Live, “Kozmic Blues” / writer: “Kozmic Blues” Soundtrack
The Dreamers 2003 writer: “I Need a Man to Love” 1968 Soundtrack
Rage 2003 TV Series performer – 1 episode Soundtrack
Ultimate X: The Movie 2002 Documentary short performer: “Cry Baby” Soundtrack
Mohamed 2001 Short performer: “Cry Baby” Soundtrack
Eva & Adam – Fyra födelsedagar och ett fiasko 2001 writer: “Mercedes Benz” Soundtrack
I cento passi 2000 performer: “Summertime” Soundtrack
Hollywood Rocks the Movies: The Early Years (1955-1970) 2000 TV Movie documentary performer: “Ball And Chain” Soundtrack
Freaks and Geeks 1999 TV Series performer – 1 episode Soundtrack
Three Kings 1999 writer: “Mercedes Benz” Soundtrack
El tiempo de la felicidad 1997 performer: “Me and Bobby McGee” Soundtrack
The Life and Times of the Red Dog Saloon 1996 Documentary writer: “Oh Sweet Mary” Soundtrack
The History of Rock ‘n’ Roll 1995 TV Series documentary performer – 1 episode Soundtrack
Home for the Holidays 1995 performer: “Piece of My Heart” Soundtrack
The War 1994 performer: “Summertime” Soundtrack
Woodstock Diary 1994 TV Movie documentary performer: “Try Just a Little Bit Harder”, “Ball and Chain” Soundtrack
Le péril Jeune 1994 lyrics: “Move over” / music: “Move over” / performer: “Move over” Soundtrack
L’eau froide 1994 performer: “Me & Bobby McGee” Soundtrack
Household Saints 1993 performer: “Maybe” Soundtrack
Beverly Hills, 90210 1991 TV Series writer – 1 episode Soundtrack
The Indian Runner 1991 performer: “SUMMERTIME” Soundtrack
Flashing on the Sixties: A Tribal Document 1990 Video documentary writer: “Down on Me” Soundtrack
Woodstock: The Lost Performances 1990 Video documentary performer: “Work Me Lord” Soundtrack
The Toxic Avenger Part III: The Last Temptation of Toxie 1989 writer: “Down On Me” Soundtrack
Bangkok Hilton 1989 TV Mini-Series writer: “Mercedes-Benz ” – uncredited Soundtrack
Look Who’s Talking 1989 performer: “Cry Baby” Soundtrack
Off Limits 1988 performer: “Down on Me” / writer: “Down on Me” Soundtrack
Women in Rock 1986 Video documentary performer: “Summertime”, “Ball and Chain”, “Piece of My Heart” – uncredited Soundtrack
Série Noire TV Series performer – 1 episode, 1986 writer – 1 episode, 1986 Soundtrack
Miami Vice 1985 TV Series writer – 1 episode Soundtrack
Cool Cats: 25 Years of Rock ‘n’ Roll Style 1983 Video documentary performer: “Ball and Chain” – uncredited Soundtrack
American Pop 1981 performer: “Summertime” Soundtrack
Berlin Alexanderplatz 1980 TV Mini-Series performer – 1 episode Soundtrack
Chilly Scenes of Winter 1979 performer: “Get It While You Can” Soundtrack
WKRP in Cincinnati TV Series performer – 1 episode, 1978 writer – 1 episode, 1978 Soundtrack
Coming Home 1978 performer: “Call on Me” 1966 Soundtrack
Gladys and Her All-Girl Band 1975 performer: “Try Just a Little Bit Harder” – uncredited Soundtrack
Little Girl Blue 1974 performer: “Little Girl Blue” – uncredited Soundtrack
Woodstock 1970 Documentary performer: “Work Me, Lord” Soundtrack
Music Scene 1969 TV Series performer – 1 episode Soundtrack
Petulia 1968 performer: “Road Block”, “Down On Me” – uncredited / writer: “Road Block”, “Down On Me” – uncredited Soundtrack
No More Excuses 1968 performer: “Down on Me” / writer: “Down on Me” Soundtrack
The Misfortunes of Francois Jane 2016 musician Music Department
The Baader Meinhof Complex 2008 soundtrack Music Department
Die Sachverständigen 1973 musician Music Department
Ball and Chain 1967 Short Actress
Mixuga 2008 Documentary Cinematographer
Acid Head: The Buzzard Nuts County Slaughter 2011 special thanks Thanks
The Dick Cavett Show 1969-1970 TV Series Herself Self
Woodstock 1970 Documentary Herself Self
Janis Joplin 1970 TV Movie documentary Herself – Musician Self
Keep on ‘Rockin 1969 Short documentary Herself Self
This Is Tom Jones 1969 TV Series documentary Herself Self
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson 1969 TV Series Herself Self
Music Scene 1969 TV Series Herself – Musical Guest Self
The Ed Sullivan Show 1969 TV Series Singer Self
Monterey Pop 1968 Documentary Performer Self
The Hollywood Palace 1968 TV Series Herself – Singer Self
Big Brother and the Holding Company: Come Up the Years 1967 TV Movie documentary Herself Self
Jay Leno’s Garage 2016 TV Series documentary Herself Archive Footage
American Masters 2016 TV Series documentary Herself Archive Footage
Now More Than Ever: The History of Chicago 2016 Documentary Herself Archive Footage
Girl in a Band 2015 TV Movie documentary Herself Archive Footage
Janis: Little Girl Blue 2015 Documentary Herself Archive Footage
Sinatra: All or Nothing at All 2015 TV Mini-Series documentary Herself Archive Footage
Australian Story 2014 TV Series documentary Herself Archive Footage
Tu cara me suena – Argentina 2014 TV Series Herself Archive Footage
The Sixties 2014 TV Mini-Series documentary Herself – Singer Archive Footage
Common Ground: The Music Festival Experience 2014 Short Herself Archive Footage
Soul Power! 2013 TV Series documentary Herself Archive Footage
60 Minutes 2006-2012 TV Series documentary Herself / Herself (segment “The Entertainers”) Archive Footage
Gershwin’s Summertime: The Song That Conquered the World 2011 TV Movie documentary Herself Archive Footage
Fantástico 2011 TV Series documentary Herself Archive Footage
Love, Janis 2010 TV Movie documentary Herself Archive Footage
Get Yer Ya Ya’s Out 2009 Video documentary short Herself Archive Footage
Woodstock: Now & Then 2009 TV Movie documentary Herself Archive Footage
The Doors: When You’re Strange 2009 Documentary Herself (uncredited) Archive Footage
Banda Sonora 2007-2008 TV Series Herself Archive Footage
Chelsea on the Rocks 2008 Documentary Herself Archive Footage
68 2008 TV Movie documentary Herself Archive Footage
The O’Reilly Factor 2008 TV Series Herself Archive Footage
More or Less Related Incidents in Recent History 2007 Documentary Archive Footage
Final 24 2007 TV Series documentary Herself Archive Footage
Summer of Love 2007 TV Series documentary Herself Archive Footage
Video on Trial 2006 TV Series Herself Archive Footage
Queens of Heartache 2006 TV Movie documentary Herself Archive Footage
Musikprogrammet – programmet om musik 2006 TV Series documentary Herself Archive Footage
Death by Excess 2006 TV Mini-Series documentary Herself Archive Footage
Biography 2000-2003 TV Series documentary Herself Archive Footage
Festival Express 2003 Documentary Herself – Janis Joplin & The Full Tilt Boogie Band Archive Footage
Ed Sullivan’s Rock ‘n’ Roll Classics, Vol. 4: Elvis & Other Rock Greats 2003 Video Herself Archive Footage
Pink Floyd The Wall Redux 2002 Herself (uncredited) Archive Footage
Nine Hundred Nights 2001 Video documentary Herself Archive Footage
The Best of Music Flashback Television Shows: Featuring Music Scene and Hullabaloo 2001 Video documentary short Herself Archive Footage
Hendrix 2000 TV Movie Herself (uncredited) Archive Footage
My Generation 2000 Documentary Herself Archive Footage
Reputations 2000 TV Series documentary Archive Footage
Intimate Portrait 2000 TV Series documentary Herself Archive Footage
Power Vision – Pop Galerie 2000 TV Series documentary Herself Archive Footage
VH1 Legends 1996 TV Series documentary Herself Archive Footage
The History of Rock ‘n’ Roll 1995 TV Series documentary Herself Archive Footage
Woodstock Diary 1994 TV Movie documentary Herself Archive Footage
Comin’ Home 1991 Video documentary short Herself Archive Footage
Woodstock: The Lost Performances 1990 Video documentary Herself Archive Footage
When the Applause Died 1990 Video documentary Herself Archive Footage
Rolling Stone Presents Twenty Years of Rock & Roll 1987 TV Movie documentary Herself Archive Footage
Rock ‘N’ Roll Goldmine: The Sixties 1986 Documentary short Herself Archive Footage
Women in Rock 1986 Video documentary Herself Archive Footage
Jimi Plays Monterey 1986 Documentary Herself Archive Footage
The Rock ‘n’ Roll Years 1986 TV Series Herself Archive Footage
Cool Cats: 25 Years of Rock ‘n’ Roll Style 1983 Video documentary Herself Archive Footage
When the Music’s Over 1982 TV Movie documentary Archive Footage
All You Need Is Love 1977 TV Series documentary Herself Archive Footage
Janis 1974 Documentary Herself Archive Footage
Free 1973 Documentary Archive Footage
When the Music’s Over… 1971 TV Movie documentary Herself – Musician Archive Footage

Janis Lyn Joplin Awards

Year Award Ceremony Nomination Movie Category
2013 Star on the Walk of Fame Walk of Fame Recording On November 4, 2013. At 6752 Hollywood Blvd. Won
2013 Star on the Walk of Fame Walk of Fame Recording On November 4, 2013. At 6752 Hollywood Blvd. Nominated