On Oct. 4, 1970, legendary singer Janis ... two solo albums. The Daily News takes a look back at her life and her musical career. At the young age of 27, legendary singer Janis Joplin passed ...

Or rather, their singer, Janis Joplin, did. With her electrifying stage presence and powerful rasp, Joplin was like no other singer around. Over the course of four studio albums (two with the Holding ...

It's 50 years since Janis Joplin died ... Suddenly Joplin was unrivalled as the leading female rock and blues singer of the era. She remained mainly an album artist but in 1968 had a hit single ...

Near the end of her own tragically short life, Janis made ... included on her 1971 album Mythical Kings and Iguanas, released some seven months later. Very poignantly, Joplin herself was not ...