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På uppmaning från min mor....lol
Presenterar jag Amerikanska singer/songwriter  Janis Ian!
Mamma tycker att ni borde lysna til Janis...jag med faktisk =D
Enjoy !

Hennes kanske mest kända song....at seventen:
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Janis som hon ser ut i dag.

Shirly Bassy med en av Janis odödliga låtar..Jesse..

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Janis Ian burst onto the music scene in 1965 when, at the age of fourteen, she wrote and recorded ‘Society’s Child’, a controversial song about an interracial teen couple and the social pressure to end their relationship. After a couple of years she dropped out of the limelight and focused on writing poetry and more songs. In 1971 he career resumed when her gorgeous song ‘Jesse’ became a hit for Roberta Flack. The following year she began recording again and in 1975 she hit gold with the fragile anthem ‘At 17’. The album Between the Lines went to No. 1 and she received two Grammy Awards, including Best Pop Female Vocalist. Ms. Ian recorded five more albums and then in 1982 abandoned her lucrative Columbia Records contract.
     For the next couple of years she unwound from eleven solid years of touring and recording with dance lessons and theatre lessons from Stella Adler. Then in the mid-1980s everything fell apart. She ended an abusive six-year marriage, endured emergency intestinal surgery, suffered a family loss, and lost everything in an IRS nightmare of gross financial business mismanagement. In 1988 she moved to Nashville. Here she worked to establish herself as a premiere songwriter. Since then such diverse artists as Kathy Mattea, Bette Midler, Nanci Griffith, and Amy Grant have recorded her works.
     Janis Ian has been out of the closet to her family and within the industry for years. But in 1993 she chose to come out publicly as a lesbian amidst the publicity of Breaking Silence, her first album in twelve years. Much of the reason for the album’s delay was because the music industry considered Janis Ian ‘unbankable’. Finally in frustration, she was forced to mortgage her house to record Breaking Silence. The album received wonderful reviews nationwide. Her lyrics pull no punches. The issues covered in this collection include incest, abuse, and the Holocaust. It is an exceptional work by an artist at the top of her game, perhaps because for the very first time Janis Ian doesn’t have to compromise the content of her work to please and placate record executives.
     Today Janis Ian still lives in Nashville with her partner of four years and two dogs. 

Här är en av Janis vackraste och sorgligaste låtar...
Jag dedikerar den till min mamma....
Tack mamma för all den underbara musik du fått mig att lyssna till....
Love you so much...



Tea and symphaty.

I don't want to ride the milk train anymore
I'll go to bed at nine and waken with the dawn
And lunch at half past noon and dinner prompt at five
The comfort of a few old friends long past their prime

Pass the tea and sympathy for the good old days long gone
We'll drink a toast to those who most believe in what they've won
It's a long, long time 'til morning plays wasted on the dawn
And I'll not write another line, for my true love is gone

When the guests have gone, I'll tidy up the rooms
And turn the covers down, and gazing at the moon
Will pray to go quite mad and live in long ago
When you and I were one, so very long ago

Pass the tea and sympathy for the good old days long gone
We'll drink a toast to those who most believe in what they've won
It's a long, long time 'til morning plays wasted on the dawn
And I'll not write another line, for my true love is gone

When I have no dreams to give you anymore
I'll light a blazing fire and wait within the door
And throw my life away, "I wonder why?" they all will say
And now I lay me down to sleep, forever and a day

Pass the tea and sympathy, for the good old days are dead
Let's drink a toast to those who best survived the life they've led
It's a long, long time 'til morning, so build your fires high
Now I lay me down to sleep, forever by your side


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