Editing Janis Ian (section)

==Early life==
Born in Farmingdale, New Jersey,<ref>{{Cite web|last=Ian|first=Janis|title=Janis Ian Through the Years|url=https://www.janisian.com/downloads/janisiantimeline.pdf|url-status=live|website=Janis Ian| archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20220130215803/https://www.janisian.com/downloads/janisiantimeline.pdf | archive-date=2022-01-30}}</ref> Ian was raised on a farm and attended [[East Orange Campus High School|East Orange High School]] in [[East Orange, New Jersey]]<ref>Nash, Margo. [https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9F0CE1DC1631F935A25750C0A9659C8B63 "JERSEY FOOTLIGHTS"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230708225814/https://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/16/nyregion/jersey-footlights.html |date=July 8, 2023 }}, ''[[The New York Times]]'', March 16, 2003: "Yet when Janis Ian went to East Orange High School, she was kicked out of the chorus." Retrieved December 19, 2007.</ref> and the [[Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts|New York City High School of Music & Art]] in [[Manhattan]]. Both sets of grandparents (from [[Poland]], [[Ukraine]], and [[Tashkent|Tashkent, Uzbekistan]]) lived in the New York-New Jersey area, having emigrated via [[England]] around 1918.<ref>{{Cite book|url = https://books.google.com/books?id=XI4-VnSrEcAC&dq=%22janis+ian%22+fink+parents+born&pg=PA137|isbn = 9781584653035|title = Stars of David: Rock'n'roll's Jewish Stories|year = 2003|last1 = Benarde|first1 = Scott R.|access-date = March 19, 2023|archive-date = July 8, 2023|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20230708225837/https://books.google.com/books?id=XI4-VnSrEcAC&dq=%22janis+ian%22+fink+parents+born&pg=PA137|url-status = live}}</ref> Her parents, Victor, a music teacher, and Pearl, a college fundraiser, were [[Jews|Jewish]]-born liberal atheists who ran several summer camps in [[Upstate New York|upstate]] New York.<ref>{{Cite news|title='At 60,' Janis Ian is no longer lonely|url=https://www.jpost.com/arts-and-culture/music/at-60-janis-ian-is-no-longer-lonely|access-date=2020-12-09|newspaper=The Jerusalem Post &#124; Jpost.com|language=en-US|archive-date=March 10, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160310205238/http://www.jpost.com/Arts-and-Culture/Music/At-60-Janis-Ian-is-no-longer-lonely|url-status=live}}</ref>

As a child, Ian admired the work of folk musicians including [[Joan Baez]] and [[Odetta]]. Starting with piano lessons at the age of two (at her own insistence), Ian, by the time she entered her teens, was playing the organ, harmonica, French horn, and guitar.<ref name="Life Magazine 53">''Life Magazine'', October 27, 1967, p. 53.</ref> At the age of 12, she wrote her first song, "Hair of Spun Gold", which was subsequently published in the folk publication ''[[Broadside (magazine)|Broadside]]'' and was later recorded for her eponymous debut album. In 1964, she legally changed her name to Janis Ian, taking her brother Eric's middle name as her new surname.<ref name="musicguide">{{cite book|last=Ankeny|first=Jason|title=All Music Guide to the Blues: The Definitive Guide to the Blues|publisher=Backbeat Books|year=2003|isbn=0-87930-736-6|editor=Bogdanov, Vladimir|editor2=Woodstra, Chris|editor3=Erlewine, Stephen Thomas}}</ref>