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American singer-songwriter and iconic rock-blues vocalist known for her raw, powerful voice and electrifying stage presence.Joplin rose to fame in 1967 as lead singer of Big Brother and the Holding Company at the Monterey Pop Festival. She later formed the Kozmic Blues Band and Full Tilt Boogie Band, releasing landmark albums like 'Cheap Thrills' and 'Pearl'. Her career was marked by struggles with substance abuse and societal expectations, ending with her untimely death at 27.

• Joplin struggled with severe drug and alcohol addiction throughout her career, once joking 'I'm saving up for a bad habit.'
• Her death was caused by an accidental heroin overdose compounded by alcohol; she was found alone in Hollywood's Landmark Motor Hotel.
• Joplin was posthumously inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1995 and received a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 2005.
• She never married but had a brief, tumultuous engagement to Peter de Blanc in 1969 that ended partly due to her substance issues.
• Joplin's unfinished album 'Pearl' was released posthumously in 1971, featuring her iconic a cappella track 'Mercedes Benz' recorded days before her death.