Janis Ian

About Janis Ian

Singer, songwriter, musician, and science fiction writer best known for his song"Society's Child (Baby I've Been Thinking)".

Janis Ian is an American singer-songwriter who was most commercially successful in the 1960s and 1970s. Her signature songs are the 1966/67 hit "Society's Child" and the 1975 Top Ten single "At Seventeen", from her LP Between the Lines, which in September 1975 reached no. 1 on the Billboard album chart. Born on April 7th, 1951 in Farmingdale, New Jersey, 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.

Years active	1965–present
Birth name	Janis Eddy Fink
Genres	Folk
Labels	Rude Girl, Columbia, Verve, Windham Hill
Occupation(s)	Musician, singer-songwriter, author
Born	April 7, 1951, Farmingdale, New Jersey U.S.

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Janis Ian before fame

She wrote a song called"Hair of Spun Gold" when she was twelve, and it was published in Broadside.

Achievement of Janis Ian

Her smash tune"At Seventeen" garnered her a Grammy nomination.

Salary 2020

Not known

Net Worth 2020

$1 Million

Janis Ian family life

Tino Sargo, whom she married in 1978, divorced her in 1987. She married Patricia Snyder on August 27, 2003.

Associations of Janis Ian

"Fly Too High", one of her songs, was featured in Jodie Foster's film Foxes.

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Family Members

Name	Relationship	Net worth	Profession
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