Janis Ian

Janis Ian born Janis Eddy Fink is an American singersongwriter who was most commercially successful in the 1960s and 1970s her most widely recognized song At Seventeen was released as a single from her 1975 album Between the Lines which reached number 1 on the Billboard chart Born in 1951 in New York City Ian entered the American folk music scene while still a teenager in the mid1960s Most active musically in that decade and the 1970s she has continued recording into the 21st century She has won two Grammy Awards the first in 1975 for At Seventeen and the second in 2013 for Best Spoken Word Album for her autobiography Societys Child with a total of ten nominations in eight different categories Ian is also a columnist and science fiction author