Janis Ian is an American singer-songwriter, musician, columnist, and science fiction author. Born in New Jersey in 1951, she started learning to play instruments from a very young age and became a prominent artist in the 1960s and 1970s folk scene. Her first hit single, "Society's Child", was written and recorded when she was only 14 years old. The song centered around an interracial relationship, still a taboo subject at the time. In 1975, she released the song "At Seventeen", which would become her most successful hit and would win a Grammy in 1976 for best female pop vocal performance. She had previously been outed in 1976, but in 1993 she came out as a lesbian with the release of her album, "Breaking Silence". In 2003, Janis married her partner in Toronto when gay marriage was legalized there. In the 2000s, she became involved in science fiction fandoms as she had been a longtime fan of the genre. Her sci-fi writing has been published in several anthologies. She also wrote for LGBT and music related magazines. Janis and her brother, Eric, started the Pearl Foundation, a nonprofit that funds scholarships for older adults in higher education, named after their mother who they encouraged to fulfill her dream of going to college. Her memoir, "Society's Child", has received critical acclaim, and the audiobook narration won a Grammy for spoken word. The recent documentary "Janis Ian: Breaking Silence" was based on her memoir.
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