![]() This time, it was clear from the beginning that they were her backup musicians, and the 1969 album I Got Dem O'l Kozmic Blues Again Mama! carried only Joplin's name she was now a solo act. She put together a new backup band, the Kozmic Blues Band, which was more influenced by R&B and featured a prominent horn section. By the end of 1968, other band members were making fun of Joplin during concerts she left Big Brother in 1968. ![]() Joplin was even more prominent on the band's 1968 album Cheap Thrills, which gave the band its biggest pop hit (and one of Joplin's signature songs), "Piece of My Heart." The band was now usually billed as "Janis Joplin and Big Brother and the Holding Company," and the rest of the group had begun to resent the fact that Joplin was getting most of the media attention. It generated a few minor radio hits, all of which featured Joplin as lead singer within a few months, new printings of the album had added "featuring Janis Joplin" to the cover. The band had begun to attract attention outside San Francisco when their first album, Big Brother and the Holding Company, was released in 1967. She eventually came to the attention of the band Big Brother and the Holding Company, and they invited her to join them in 1966. She began performing with local musicians there, occasionally making casual recordings with friends. The academic life did not suit her, and she moved to San Francisco in 1963. ![]() Joplin began performing while she was a student at the University of Texas at Austin. Her recording career included only four albums, released in less than four years, but her style, personality, and voice have been influential on women in rock ever since. Joplin was one of the most important rock singers of the late 1960s. Janis Joplin was born on January 19, 1943.
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