Since 2005 Plastic Crimewave (aka Steve Krakow) has used the Secret History of Chicago Music to shine a light on worthy artists with Chicago ties who’ve been forgotten, underrated, or never noticed in ...

Janis Ian circa 1970s (left) and in 2023. Singer-songwriter Janis Ian had a Top 20 hit at age 16 with her 1966 debut single "Society's Child" The song, written from the point of view of a young girl ...

Janis Ian was inspired to write “Society’s Child” after observing an interracial couple on her bus. Janis Ian was inspired to write “Society’s Child” after observing an interracial couple on her ...

Trace the life and music of “Society’s Child” folk icon and LGBTQ+ advocate Janis Ian. Discover the life of singer-songwriter Janis Ian and how she rose as a folk icon and gay rights advocate. She ...

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 ...

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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 ...

The "Society's Child" singer-songwriter discusses the life-changing experience in the new documentary 'Janis Ian: Breaking Silence' GAB Archive/Redferns; R. Diamond/Getty Singer-songwriter Janis Ian ...

Ian enjoyed an even bigger hit in 1975 with the coming-of-age anthem "At Seventeen," which won a Grammy Singer-songwriter Janis Ian is best known for her 1975 Top 10 single "At Seventeen," but at 16, ...