Sign up for Forwarding the News, the Forward’s morning newsletter with all the news and analysis that matters to American Jews each day. Janis Ian’s songs are ...

Ian enjoyed an even bigger hit in 1975 with the coming-of-age anthem "At Seventeen," which won a Grammy Singer-songwriter Janis Ian is best known for her 1975 Top 10 single "At Seventeen," but at 16, ...

This is FRESH AIR. Janis Ian, the singer-songwriter who had her first hit record as a teenager in the 1960s, is the subject of a new documentary, "Janis Ian: Breaking Silence, " now available to ...

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 renown at age 14 with her precocious ...

Ian had her first hit record as a teenager in the 1960s and went on to win two Grammys. A new documentary tells her life story through a combination of vintage footage and newly recorded interviews.