Janis Joplin
There is no question in our heads that Janis Joplin has always been one of the best female rock stars of all time. Through performing at concerts and festivals, she got her career. She still performed at Woodstock, after all. She’s a genuine inspiration. “Janis put herself out there completely, and her voice was not only strong and soulful, but it was also painfully and beautifully real,” Stevie Nicks gushed once.
Janis Joplin
Nina Simone
Nina Simone did so for her family when she began her music career. They weren’t affluent, but she had been working hard to make ends meet. She began playing the piano in a nightclub. This was how she was identified. A household name today, with her willingness to “belt barroom blues, croon cabaret, and explore jazz,” she has taken the planet by storm.
Nina Simone