Singer-songwriter-musician Janis Ian celebrates her 74 th birthday today. For most of those years, 60 of them in fact, she has been famous, having rocketed to fame at age 14 with her precocious debut ...

Janis Ian’s song “At Seventeen” spoke to audiences of all kinds and had a universal relevance. Janis Ian wrote “At Seventeen” about the “pain of adolescence” and not fitting in, but the themes of the ...