Janis Ian

Personal Info

Known For Actor

Gender Female

Birthday 1951-04-07 (73 years old)

Place of Birth New York City, New York, USA

Also Known As Janis Eddy Fink

Janis Ian

Biography

Janis Ian (born Janis Eddy Fink) is an American singer-songwriter 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. Born in 1951 in New York City, 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.

Known For

Actor

2007
Countdown - The Wonder Years 2

as Self (archive footage)

1979
Echoes of the Sixties: A Musical Trip

as Self (archive footage)

1975
Saturday Night Live

as Self - Musical Guest

1974
Dinah!

as Self

1973
Rock Concert

as Self

1969
Four Rode Out

as The Singer

Sound

1989
Tokyo: The Last War

as Theme Song Performance

1981
Freedom

as Songs

1977
The Album on the Shore

as Theme Song Performance

1969
Four Rode Out

as Music

1969
Four Rode Out

as Original Music Composer