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Janis Ian

Janis Ian

Born: 1951-04-07 • 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 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.

Filmography
Janis Ian: Breaking Silence poster
Janis Ian: Breaking Silence
2025 • Self
Countdown - The Wonder Years 2 poster
Countdown - The Wonder Years 2
2007 • Self (archive footage)
The Midnight Special Legendary Performances: Flashback to 1974 poster
The Midnight Special Legendary Performances: Flashback to 1974
2007 • Self (archive footage)
Echoes of the Sixties: A Musical Trip poster
Echoes of the Sixties: A Musical Trip
1979 • Self (archive footage)
Four Rode Out poster
Four Rode Out
1969 • The Singer
Inside Pop: The Rock Revolution poster
Inside Pop: The Rock Revolution
1967 • Self