At 74, Janis Ian has built a career on just two hit songs whose inspirations had come about under the most ordinary of ...

Singer/songwriter Janis Ian will always have a special place in my heart. Janis was the first artist I ever interviewed at the beginning of my journalism career. It was 1994, after the release of what ...

Ian had her first hit record as a teenager in the 1960s and went on to win two Grammys. A new documentary tells her life story through a combination of vintage footage and newly recorded interviews.

Janis Ian wrote “At Seventeen” about the “pain of adolescence” and not fitting in, but the themes of the song spoke to audiences of all kinds and had a universal relevance. The song later ...

Singer-songwriter Janis Ian is best known for her 1975 Top 10 single "At Seventeen," but at 16, she became a different kind of teen pop star. The year was 1967, and Ian soared into the Top 20 of ...

That’s so not fetch. Singer Janis Ian admitted to having mixed feelings about Tina Fey naming a “Mean Girls” character after her. “I would’ve felt better about it [had she] asked me ...

It's easy to get tongue-tied when you're on the phone talking to Janis Ian. This is the woman whose introduction to the cultural zeitgeist as a guitar-toting child of liberal Jewish atheists was ...

Janis Ian wrote “Some People’s Lives” with songwriter Kye Fleming, inspired by a restaurant owner they were friends with named Mary, who felt that she had not contributed anything to the ...

This is FRESH AIR. Janis Ian, the singer-songwriter who had her first hit record as a teenager in the 1960s, is the subject of a new documentary, "Janis Ian: Breaking Silence, " now available to ...