Janis Lyn Joplin was born on January 19, 1943 at 9:50 am in St. Mary's Hospital in Port Arthur, Texas. Her father, Seth Joplin, worked at Texaco, and she had two younger siblings, Michael and Laura. When she had acclaim she admitted that the Empress of the blues singer, contralto Bessie Smith (1894-1937) and the... Continue Reading →