EXCLUSIVE: As NBC prepares to celebrate the 50 th anniversary of Saturday Night Live, it’s interesting to recall the show’s second official musical guest – singer-songwriter Janis Ian. On October 11, ...

Janis Ian performed as the musical guest on the premiere episode of Saturday Night Live with a raging fever and strep throat. “Everybody in the cast was very nervous because they’d never done live TV, ...

Singer/songwriter Janis Ian will always have a special place in my heart. Janis was the first artist I ever interviewed at the beginning of my journalism career. It was 1994, after the release of what ...

Janis Ian’s song “At Seventeen” spoke to audiences of all kinds and had a universal relevance. Janis Ian wrote “At Seventeen” about the “pain of adolescence” and not fitting in, but the themes of the ...

As “Saturday Night Live” turns 50 years old, NBC News’ Joe Fryer speaks with the show’s first-ever musical performer, Janis Ian, about her experience on “SNL.” The “SNL” 50 special show will air in ...

Excitement filled the Buskirk-Chumley Theater on Thursday night, as fans of musician Janis Ian flocked to see a screening of ...

This is FRESH AIR. Janis Ian, the singer-songwriter who had her first hit record as a teenager in the 1960s, is the subject of a new documentary, "Janis Ian: Breaking Silence, " now available to ...