Janis Joplin

Janis Lyn Joplin was an American singer considered the premier female blues vocalist of the Sixties her raw powerful and uninhibited singing style combined with her turbulent and emotional lifestyle made her one of the biggest female stars in her lifetime She died of a drug overdose in 1970 aged 27 after releasing three albums A fourth album Pearl was released a little more than three months after her death reaching number 1 on the charts