Singer/songwriter Janis Ian will always have a special place in my heart. Janis was the first artist I ever interviewed at the beginning of my journalism career. It was 1994, after the release of what ...

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 ...

Janis Ian performed as the musical guest on the premiere episode of Saturday Night Live with a raging fever and strep throat. “Everybody in the cast was very nervous because they’d never done live TV, ...

On one of their visits, Janis Ian took Berea College President Lyle Roelofs to her studio. There he saw a photo of “a very young” Ian sitting at a grand piano. “Looking over her shoulder at the music ...

Janis Ian’s initiation into rock ‘n’ roll was early and dramatic. In 1966, at the age of 15, she recorded Society’s Child, a song she’d written about an interracial romance. It raced up the charts and ...

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 ...

EXCLUSIVE: As NBC prepares to celebrate the 50 th anniversary of Saturday Night Live, it's interesting to recall the show's second official musical guest – singer-songwriter Janis Ian. On October 11, ...