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Audiences like their blues singers to be miserable.
Source: In Woman's Almanac, by Barbara McDowell and Hana Umlaut, 1977. -- Janis Joplin, (Jan 19 1943-1970), US singer; She was best known as a White Blues and Soul Singer.