With only four albums Joplin would achieve the status of a rock diva, her stormy life gave her the ability to reach the depths of each song, each story with her voice and to bring that feeling closer to the public.
Her constant trips to the hippy San Francisco of the time provided her with enough energy and the necessary point of madness to mix that pure black essence with the energy of rock.
On several occasions she even said what would happen to her life when she was not number one and was not a star, and she certainly did not have time to find out, on October 4, 1970, she was found dead in a hotel room in Los Angeles.
Janis had some time broken her collaboration with her band Big Brother & The Holding Company, her happy times in San Francisco were over and she spent her time more drunk than sober, she fought with her musicians in the studio and her life was a physical, mental and emotional lack of control.
At that time Janis Joplin is immersed in the recording of her new album "Pearl", which was still finished, but by the time it was released it had an overwhelming success.
What could come out of such an emotional and physical state? What record could be the result of such a convulsed life? "Pearl" was a terrifying, painful, torn and at the same time magnificent record.
Janis Joplin had managed after her death to do her best and most complete work, songs like "Me and Bobby McGee", "Trust me", "A Woman left Lonely" or "Cry Baby" showed the most absolute sadness without stopping show your wildest and most indomitable side.
And it is that Janis achieved in this amazing album to balance her original strength and mastery of the technique in a very accentuated emotional state.
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