Birth Name: Janis Lyn Joplin
Date of Birth: January 19, 1943
Place of Birth: Port Arthur, Texas
Date of Death: October 4, 1970
Place of Death: Los Angeles, California
Ethnicity: English, small amount of Scottish
Janis Joplin was an American singer and songwriter.
Janis’s paternal grandparents were Seeb Winston Joplin (the son of Charles Alexander Joplin and Margaret Elmira White) and Florence Elizabeth Porter (the daughter of Robert Ury Porter and Arminta H. Roberson).
Janis’s maternal grandparents were Cecil Walter East (the son of Ulysses Samson Grant East and Annie Belle Bowman) and Laura Mildred Hanson (the daughter of Herbert Milton Hanson and Stella Mae Sherman).
Source: Genealogy of Janis Joplin – http://www.geni.com