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JANIS IAN SET TO PERFORM AT WILLIAM PATERSON UNVERSITY Janis Ian, the outspoken and inspiring singer-songwriter best known for her songs "Society's Child" and "At Seventeen," will appear in concert at William Paterson University in Wayne on Friday, March 2 at 8 p.m. in Shea Center. The concert will feature songs from Ian's 17th album, "God and the FBI," an album on which she duets with fellow music "outlaw" Willie Nelson. Ian burst on the music scene at age 15 with her controversial saga of interracial love, "Society's Child." Self-penned and arranged, it topped the charts and created a storm of discussion that featured Ian on NBC's "The Tonight Show" and in Life, Look, Time and Newsweek magazines. Her debut album, 1967's "Janis Ian," garnered the first of her nine Grammy nominations to date. Since then, she has recorded 17 albums, some as close as 9 months apart, some as far as 10 years. Ian achieved a new level of popularity in the 1970s with her trio of masterpieces: "Stars" (1973), "Between the Lines" (1975) and "Aftertones" (1976). The first contained "Jesse" which became a pop standard after Roberta Flack topped the charts with it. The second contained "At Seventeen," which sold over a million copies and earned Ian her first two Grammy Awards. The third was one of the most critically acclaimed albums of its day and featured Ian's friends Odetta and Phoebe Snow as supporting vocalists. Ian entered the 1980s with the international disco hit "Fly Too High," a song featured on the soundtrack of the Jodie Foster movie "Foxes," one of several film and television projects. She also won Grammy Awards for her work in children's music and as a jazz artist. Truly a "musician's musician," Ian's songs have been recorded by everyone from Stan Getz to Bette Midler, from Glen Campbell to Vanilla Fudge, from Cher to Hugh Masakela, and from Joan Baez to Etta James. Ian has been content to come in and out of the public eye in favor of strengthening her skills as musician, songwriter, columnist, and activist. For additional information or to purchase
tickets, please call the Shea Center Box Office at 973-720-2371.
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