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And it would be many months before we’d know the outcome of any treatment.
It is most unlikely that I’ll ever sound like myself again.
I consider myself lucky that this is not life-threatening, though the loss in my own small world is staggering.
I’m going to take a few weeks to get used to this, then deal with the logistics of what to do with everything we’d prepared for the tour, like a zillion CDs… be patient, please.
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Janis Ian (b.
It was quickly certified gold, and later earned a platinum certification for sales of over a million copies sold in the U.S.
Ian finally became one of the first "indie artists", resurfacing in 1993, with the worldwide release of Breaking Silence and its title song about incest. "I did turn down `You Light Up My Life," and I would have done a good job on it," she admitted to A&R Insider , "but it seemed real important at the time, since there were so few women writers, to prove the point." And prove the point she did, releasing 13 albums--consisting mostly of her songs--from 1967-81.
"There's this assumption that if you're male and have a band--it's your band.... And that beats it to me. Jeff Evans handled inserting the metadata and mastering. But it was like I wasn't in the band. Thinking that she'd feel intrusive in someone else's recording studio, it took Ian a year to convince her. "I didn't like what I was writing.
1951) is a U.S. songwriter, singer, musician, columnist, and science fiction author. She released three more for Verve, For All the Seasons of your Mind in 1967; The Secret Life of J. Eddy Fink in 1968 and 1969's Who Really Cares . "I remember violent arguments with TV people in [Los Angeles] when I was fifteen about wearing pants or dresses," she told Hutchinson.
The song's album, Between the Lines, reached number one on Billboard's Album chart. With Breaking Silence , she seemed renewed and empowered, taking on the issues that she'd been missing out on for over a decade. She also remembered having a tough time getting credit as the leader of her three-person group. It’s been a group effort from start to finish, and now I’m happy to include whoever reads this as part of our group.
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Even as a young musician, Ian always stayed true to her own material.
The result was the track "Searching" and "the nicest producer experience of my life," Ian said. A former accountant had botched her taxes, her health failed, her marriage ended, and she lost her house. At most venues she will take part in a special question and answer event after the screening. "The knowledge kept hitting me in the face that everybody could take everything away from me," she told Richard Johnston in Guitar Player in 1997, "but they couldn't take my talent."
"It's good in a lot of ways because I didn't want a lot of those years on record," she told Hutchinson.
"The hurdles weren't that different from anyone else," she said, "except when you are an adolescent, it's so hard just existing, that the added pressure of expecting yourself to be brilliant and to communicate and to become a whole and honest person is a lot." She remembered rock veteran and notorious substance abuser Janis Joplin sending her home from a party where drugs were being used.
In overcoming her growing pains, Ian only faced more complicated gender issues as an adult.