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Janis Ian
New York City, New York, USA
Janis Ian (born Janis Eddy Fink) is an American singer-songwriter who was most commercially successful in the 1960s and 1970s; her most widely recognized song, "At Seventeen", was…
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Janis Ian (born Janis Eddy Fink) 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 1951 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.
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2025
Janis Ian: Breaking Silence
Movie Self
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2013
Getting On
TV show Mrs. Belfontaine
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2007
The Midnight Special Legendary Performances: Flashback to 1974
Movie Self (archive footage)
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2007
Countdown - The Wonder Years 2
Movie Self (archive footage)
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1989
Tokyo: The Last War
Movie Theme Song Performance
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1981
Freedom
Movie Songs
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1979
Echoes of the Sixties: A Musical Trip
Movie Self (archive footage)
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1977
The Album on the Shore
TV show Theme Song Performance
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1975
Saturday Night Live
TV show Self - Musical Guest
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1974
Dinah!
TV show Self
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1973
Rock Concert
TV show Self
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1969
Four Rode Out
Movie The Singer
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1967
Inside Pop: The Rock Revolution
TV show Self
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1967
Inside Pop: The Rock Revolution
Movie Self
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1962
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
TV show Self
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1961
The Mike Douglas Show
TV show Self
