JANIS JOPLIN

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FILE - Nikki McKibbin celebrates during the final episode of Fox's television competition "American Idol," in Los Angeles, in this Sept. 4, 2002, file photo. McKibbin, a singer from Texas best known for her third place finish in the first season of "American Idol," died Sunday, Nov. 1, 2020. She was 42. (AP Photo/Lucy Nicholson, File)

FILE - Nikki McKibbin celebrates during the final episode of Fox's television competition "American Idol," in Los Angeles, in this Sept. 4, 2002, file photo. McKibbin, a singer from Texas best known for her third place finish in the first season of "American Idol," died Sunday, Nov. 1, 2020. (AP Photo/Lucy Nicholson, File)ARLINGTON, Texas – Nikki McKibbin, a singer from Texas best known for her third place finish in the first season of American Idol, has died. ``You’ve got a career ahead of you.″In a statement, American Idol sent its condolences to McKibbin's family and friends. “She was part of our American Idol family and will be truly missed.”

FILE - Harry Styles, right, presents a trophy to Stevie Nicks at the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony in New York on March 29, 2019. I feel like I know Beyoncé even though I really don’t know her at all. I hope you’re wrong.’ But he’s absolutely right.”_________CALL ME MAYBESpeaking of friends Stevie Nicks have been in touch with — don’t count the members of Fleetwood Mac. I’m really, really good friends with Mick,” she said. That’s really good too because that kind of keeps you in sort of that mindset also,” she said.

Texas venue that launched Janis Joplin's career set to closeThis is a 1969 photo of rock singer Janis Joplin. (AP Photo) This is a 1969 photo of rock singer Janis Joplin. (AP Photo) Photo: Anonymous, HO Photo: Anonymous, HO Image 1 of / 23 Caption Close Texas venue that launched Janis Joplin's career set to close 1 / 23 Back to GalleryAUSTIN, Texas (AP) A live-music venue in Texas where college student Janis Joplin launched her singing career will not be reopening after the coronavirus pandemic lifts. The converted gas station is where Joplin, then a student at the University of Texas, performed in the 1960s. VIRUS CZARS: Get to know Houston's coronavirus recovery czarsBefore reopening Threadgill's, Wilson had founded another iconic Austin music venue the Armadillo World Headquarters in 1973.

AUSTIN, Texas – A live-music venue in Texas where college student Janis Joplin launched her singing career will not be reopening after the coronavirus pandemic lifts. The converted gas station is where Joplin, then a student at the University of Texas, performed in the 1960s. On Monday, Wilson made the closure of his venue permanent but did not provide further details. Before reopening Threadgill’s, Wilson had founded another iconic Austin music venue — the Armadillo World Headquarters — in 1973. The south Austin venue where Texas progressive country music embodied by Willie Nelson was nurtured closed after a New Year’s Eve 1980 party and was torn down to make way for an office building.

Joplin also had ideas about freedom and doing what she wanted when she wanted often expressing that loudly and in an unfeminine manner. Finally, at one of the last shows she did with Big Brother and the Holding Company in 1968, disastrous events led the city of Houston to ban all rock concerts. EXPAND Big Brother and the Holding Company during an early photo session: James Gurley, Peter Albin, Janis Joplin, Sam Andrew, and David Getz. But just as she looked to her blues heroes for inspiration, two generations since her have looked toward Janis Joplin as the O.G. And unlike many just-the-facts rock bio narratives, this one really conjures its subject up off the pages with a vividness and clarity.