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Director Varda Bar-Kar Takes Fans Inside Singer Janis Ian’s Life in ‘Breaking Silence’ Documentary
‘Breaking Silence’ director Varda Bar-Kar exclusively reveals to Closer that she was ‘so moved’ by Janis Ian’s music when she was in high school.
Janis Ian performed as the musical guest on the premiere episode of Saturday Night Live with a raging fever and strep throat. “I think all of us have something in us where we feel outside somehow,” says Varda Bar-Kar, director of a new documentary that examines the singer-songwriter’s life and contribution to popular music, J anis Ian: Breaking Silence. Columbia Janis wrote and recorded her first hit “Society’s Child (Baby I’ve Been Thinking)” about an interracial romance at age 14.
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