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the voice that made pain sound like the most alive thing on earth.
means nickname for janis joplin, the blues-rock singer whose raw, cracked-open vocals became shorthand for raw emotional honesty in music.
from born janis lyn joplin in port arthur, texas, 1943, mocked as an outsider in high school, she found her voice fronting big brother and the holding company before going solo, dead of an overdose at 27 in 1970.
27 clubdied same age as hendrix, morrison, cobain.
pearlher final album, released after her death.
woodstock setperformed there in 1969, largely uncut in the film.