It’s neat to have finally reached a point where I can accept what I was and what I am.
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I learned the truth at seventeen, That love was meant for beauty queens, And high school girls with clear skinned smiles, Who married young and then retired.
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Birth: | 7th April, 1951 |
Nationality: | American |
Profession: | Lyricist, Singer |
Janis Ian was born in The Bronx, New York City, New York, USA. She is an American singer-songwriter, guitarist and author who was most commercially successful in the 1960s and 1970s; her most widely recognized song, "At Seventeen", was released as a single from her 1975 album Between the Lines which reached number 1 on the Billboard chart. 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. Her albums list shown below: For All the Seasons of Your Mind, Between the Lines, Aftertones, Miracle Row, Night Rains, Restless Eyes, Uncle Wonderful, Revenge, Society's Child, Hunger, God & The FBI, Billie's Bones, Working Without a Net, and Folk Is the New Black. She has written several books include: Who Really Cares: Childhood Poems and Society's Child: My Autobiography.
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