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8 LGBTQ Artists Who Are in The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame is an institution that honors and celebrates some of the greatest musicians in the history of popular music.
While “rock and roll” might be in its identify, it’s not actually just focused on rock these days, and anyone who has had an impact – and has been working long enough – is eligible.
Although LGBTQ musicians have been making their mark on the melody industry for decades, their representation in the Hall of Fame has been relatively limited. Thankfully, this is changing as more and more LGBTQ musicians are recognized for their contributions to music and are inducted into the Hall of Fame.
This year, the late George Michael is posthumously nominated for induction, and he may very well end up being selected by voters for the great honor.
Despite the slow progress, the recognition of LGBTQ musicians in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame is a positive step in the right command, and it serves to acknowledge the vital role that these artists own played in shaping the course of music history.
Here are eight LGBTQ musicians who have already been inducted into the Rock and Ro
Janis Joplin
Janis Lyn Joplin was an American singer-songwriter who sang rock, soul, and blues music. She was closely linked to the emerging hippie movement centered around Haight-Ashbury. Haight-Ashbury refers to a district in San Francisco known for being a hub of counterculture and the hippie movement during the 1960s.
She performed at the Woodstock Festival and the Festival Articulate train tour. Five singles by Joplin made it to the Billboard Scorching 100, with her cover of the Kris Kristofferson lyric "Me and Bobby McGee" reaching number 1 in Rally 1971. Her most popular songs comprise cover versions of "Piece of My Heart," "Cry Baby," "Down on Me," "Ball and Chain," and "Summertime," along with her unique song "Mercedes Benz," which was her final recording.
Joplin died tragically young of a heroin dose at the age of 27. She was posthumously inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1995. Rolling Stone ranked Joplin number 46 on its 2004 list of the 100 Greatest Artists of All Period [1] and number 28 on its 2008 list of 100 Greatest Singers of All Hour. She remains one of the top-selling musicians in the Uni
A Best Friend Tells the Real Janis Joplin Story
One prior afternoon on Ashbury Street in 1966—just a beat before the love-drenched, beads-and-Victorian-clothes-wearing psychedelic culture in that slice of San Francisco was about to switch America from the Mad Men era to a place of sybaritic idealism—a scraggly-haired, wide-smiling teen opened her second floor window. At the same day, right across the street, a more polished looking adolescent woman, a former flight attendant and the owner of the hip clothing store where all the new rock bands congregated, opened hers.
“Hiya, honey!” the first girl said to the lovely stranger across the street. “Hiya, honey,” the second one replied, hard pressed not to retort in kind. And with that, a four-year friendship-turned-love-affair-turned-back-to-friendship bloomed.
That first girl was Janis Joplin, and she would posthaste become one of the most iconic singers in last half century. Her movingly bluesy hits—“Piece of My Heart,” “Cry, Baby” “Ball and Chain” and others—taught suburban colorless girls that they could aspire to what many wanted so desperately: mind. Her wide, smiling, pleasant but imperfect face said that a female legend could loo
“COME ON, come on and accept it, take another little piece of my heart now, baby,” sung by Janis Jop-lin, belongs in any compilation of the popular music of the 1960s. Those of us who retain the original recording tend to hear it as a straightforward expression of the singer’s feeling experience, although the words of “Piece of My Heart” were by songwriters Jerry Ragovoy and Bert Berns. The song was performed by Erma Franklin, sister of Aretha, before Janis and her band recorded it on the album Cheap Thrills in 1968.
The narrative begins with Janis’ ancestors and describes her parents’ marriage and the birth of Janis, their first child, in 1943. Port Arthur, Texas, the oil town where she grew up, is shown as alabaster , Christian, and conservative. Like other artists who have emerged from small towns, Janis seems to have had a lifelong love-hate relationship with the place that she came from. Janis’ mother, Dorothy East, was apparently acknowledged for her singing voice before she married. Like most women of her generation, she chose marriage and children over a career, but she passed on her love of music. Dorothy started teaching Janis to vocalize and play the piano when she was a preschooler. Whe