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Laura Nyro
Laura Nyro
American musician and songwriter
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Pink
Pink
American singer and songwriter
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Diana King
Diana King
Jamaican Singer
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Ashlee Simpson
Ashlee Simpson
American singer, actress, dancer
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Odetta
Odetta
American recording artist, singer, actress, guitarist, lyricist, and civil and human rights activist (1930-2008)
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Indigo Girls
Indigo Girls
American folk rock duo
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Dannii Minogue
Dannii Minogue
Australian pop singer, songwriter, actress
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Melanie Brown
Melanie Brown
British singer, actress and television personality
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Meredith Brooks
Meredith Brooks
American musician
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Brandi Carlile
Brandi Carlile
American alternative country and folk rock singer-songwriter
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Grace Slick
Grace Slick
American musician, writer and painter
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Kate Miller-Heidke
Kate Miller-Heidke
Australian singer
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Raven-Symoné
Raven-Symoné
American child actress and singer
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Rebecca St. James
Rebecca St. James
Australian singer
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Julia Fordham
Julia Fordham
British singer-songwriter
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Kim Wilde
Kim Wilde
English pop singer
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Sheena Easton
Sheena Easton
Scottish recording artist
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Geri Halliwell
Geri Halliwell
British pop singer-songwriter, clothes designer, author and actress
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Melissa Etheridge
Melissa Etheridge
American singer-songwriter
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Jill Sobule
Jill Sobule
American singer-songwriter
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Ringo Sheena
Ringo Sheena
Japanese singer-songwriter (1978-)
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Jessie James Decker
Jessie James Decker
American country pop singer
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Crystal Kay
Crystal Kay
Singer, voice actor, actress (1986-)
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Loreena McKennitt
Loreena McKennitt
Canadian musician and composer
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Natalie Cole
Natalie Cole
American singer and songwriter
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Mary Black
Mary Black
Irish singer
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Jennifer Love Hewitt
Jennifer Love Hewitt
American actress and singer-songwriter
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Gabriella Cilmi
Gabriella Cilmi
Australian singer-songwriter
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Sis Cunningham
Sis Cunningham
American musician
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Nina Simone
Nina Simone
American singer, songwriter, pianist, arranger, and civil rights activist
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Angela Aki
Angela Aki
Japanese musician
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Yumi Matsutoya
Yumi Matsutoya
Japanese singer-songwriter, lyricist, composer (1954-)
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Rod Stewart
Rod Stewart
British singer
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Lizz Wright
Lizz Wright
American singer
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Janis Joplin
Janis Joplin
American singer and songwriter
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Kasey Chambers
Kasey Chambers
Australian country singer-songwriter and musician
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Noah and the Whale
Noah and the Whale
British indie rock band
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Sheila E.
Sheila E.
American singer and percussionist
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Mandy Moore
Mandy Moore
American singer, songwriter, actress and voice actress
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Mary Lambert
Mary Lambert
American singer-songwriter and poet
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Cyndi Lauper
Cyndi Lauper
American recording artist; singer, songwriter, actress and activist
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Marianne Faithfull
Marianne Faithfull
British singer, songwriter and actress
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Kelly Rowland
Kelly Rowland
American singer, songwriter, actress
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Joi Cardwell
Joi Cardwell
American musician
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Diana Jones
Diana Jones
American singer-songwriter
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Judy Collins
Judy Collins
American singer and songwriter
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Kate Rusby
Kate Rusby
English folk singer
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Linda Ronstadt
Linda Ronstadt
American singer
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t.A.T.u.
t.A.T.u.
Russian music duo
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Suzi Quatro
Suzi Quatro
American musician, radio host and actress
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Brooke Fraser
Brooke Fraser
New Zealand singer and songwriter
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American singer-songwriter and writer
Awards Received
Grammy Award for Best Spoken Word Album
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Janis Ian (born Janis Eddy Fink; April 7, 1951) is an American singer-songwriter who was most commercially successful in the 1960s and 1970s. Her signature songs are the 1966/67 hit "Society's Child (Baby I've Been Thinking)" and the 1975 Top Ten single "At Seventeen", from her LP Between the Lines, which in September 1975 reached no. 1 on the Billboard album chart.

Born in Farmingdale, New Jersey, 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.