Janet was predestined to have a career in music. Born into a musical family, her father was a renown big band trombonist who played with many of the greats, such as, Tommy Dorsey, Benny Goodman, and Count Basie. Her mother, an accomplished pianist, graduated from Yale School of Music. She had Janet matching musical tones vocally at six weeks three days old. As soon as Janet could crawl, she pulled herself up to the piano keys and played tunes over her head. By age twelve, she was gigging as a keyboardist in a rock band. A few years later, Janet was playing keyboards with a high school showband in Las Vegas that toured locally and in California, including venues such as Knottsberry Farm. When Janet returned to the East Coast, she played keys in a YES cover band, then a LED ZEPPELIN cover band. Since she was still in high school, her mother would do her homework so she could play in clubs.

After graduation, Janet became more passionate about singing and fronted her first band. here she got her first band experience in the music business as well as songwriting. She then formed her own hard rock band, LITTLESISTER, as the sole writer and singer. LITTLE SISTER gained considerable recognition around the New York/New Jersey area where she was born and grew up. Her group opened for many national acts in the larger clubs. They also received radio play, had pictures and articles printed often in the local music papers and even the international magazine, Metal Hammer. LITTLE SISTER was a runner-up in Yamaha's Soundcheck band competition, and was chosen as one of eighteen unsigned bands in the USA to showcase at Concrete Marketing's Foundations Forum in Los Angeles. Janet has earned the respect of many well-known musicians. Along with the recognition, this young woman's talent has paved her way into various studio works for hire. She has sung on National TV commercials, demos for major publishing companies, an International CD release from Joe Lynn Turner (former frontman for Rainbow and Deep Purple), and she sang the National Anthem for a karate tournament featured on ESPN.

Since September of 1998, she's been touring as a backing vocalist with Liz Phair, which lead to appearances on the Tonight Show with Jay Leno, The Rosie O'Donnell Show, and Sessions at West 54th hosted by David Byrne. It also brought the exciting opportunities of being the opener of Alanis Morrisette's Former Infatuation Junkie tour, as well as participating in this year's Lilith Fair. Janet's lifelong experience has lead her own brand of rock, which she describes as "a blending of Earth, Edge, and Soulful Spice," this artist recreates herself inside of her music. There is no separation between this singer and her song. She writes mostly from personal experience, making every song an extension of herself. To Janet Rains, life is an open book written to music. For the rest of us, hers is a book worth reading.