“Janis Ian: Breaking Silence” is so close to being a great documentary that its easily remedied flaws are all the more vexing. Director Varda Bar-Kar (“Fandango at the Wall”) offers a conventional but ...

This is FRESH AIR. Janis Ian, the singer-songwriter who had her first hit record as a teenager in the 1960s, is the subject of a new documentary, "Janis Ian: Breaking Silence, " now available to ...

Singer-songwriter-musician Janis Ian celebrates her 74 th birthday today. For most of those years, 60 of them in fact, she has been famous, having rocketed to renown at age 14 with her precocious ...

Why Janis Ian’s song “At Seventeen” was so universally beloved Janis Ian wrote “At Seventeen” about the “pain of adolescence” and not fitting in, but the themes of the song spoke to audiences of all ...

It's easy to get tongue-tied when you're on the phone talking to Janis Ian. This is the woman whose introduction to the cultural zeitgeist as a guitar-toting child of liberal Jewish atheists was met ...

Janis Ian and Joan Baez have released a new single, featuring a duet by the two legendary folk singers. But there’s a twist. “One in a Million,” written by Ian and Jess Leary, features a performance ...

“Janis Ian — Breaking Silence” screening: 4:30 p.m., Dairy Arts Center, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder. Janis Ian had one of the most remarkable debuts in modern music history. At the age of 13, she began ...

Singer-songwriter Janis Ian evolved from a precocious young talent to an influential figure in the music industry and an advocate for social justice. Born in 1951 to a politically active Jewish family ...

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