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Article: Still breaking silence: checking in with Janis Ian on music, politics, recording with Dolly Parton, and the joys of married life.(music)(Interview)(Biography)
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- The Advocate (The national gay & lesbian newsmagazine)
- Article date:
- May 11, 2004
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Many musicians are gifted; Janis Ian is brilliant. Her resume is nearly as long as her life. In 1967, when she had her first hit, "Society's Child," America was almost as shocked by the youth of the teen singer-songwriter as by the audacity of her "lament for a budding black-white romance stifled by hidebound parents.
Ian's creativity has been boiling ever since. More than 20 intricate and challenging records later--among them 1975's Between the Lines, which yielded her multiple-Grammy-winning hit "At Seventeen"--Ian came out as a lesbian. She moved to Nashville, fell in love, released her landmark 1993 album Breaking Silence, and deepened her command of her ...