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Janis Joplin was born on January 19, 1943, in Port Arthur, Texas, USA, and was the eldest of her siblings. She attended Thomas Jefferson High School, where she developed an interest in painting and blues music while mingling with other rebellious kids. After graduating high school in 1960, she attended university but dropped out in 1962, prompting the student newspaper to run the headline, "She Dares To Be Different." In 1963, Joplin moved to San Francisco, initially living in North Beach and later in Haight-Ashbury, where she began to struggle with drug and alcohol addiction. During this time, she recorded a session that later became known as "The Typewriter Tape." In May 1965, she returned to Port Arthur to get sober for a year and enrolled as a sociology major at Lamar University. In 1966, she returned to California at the invitation of someone she had known as a teenager and joined a band, performing publicly for the first time at the Fillmore in San Francisco. The band signed with a record label in August 1966 and recorded an album, which was released a year later. However, during this period, Joplin relapsed into hard drug use. In November 1967, Joplin and the band signed with another label and released an album in 1968. That year was significant for Joplin, as she performed at the Monterey Pop Festival,

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