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Breaking Silence is an album by singer-songwriter Janis Ian, released in 1992 on Morgan Creek Records in the United States and Europe and on Columbia in Canada and the Netherlands.
In the preceding decade, Ian met Pat Snyder and, after significant financial and health setbacks, they purchased a house together by 1991. They took on a second mortgage to fund the album, as major record labels were no longer interested in Ian's work. "I thought I was only going to get one more chance to record, so I wanted to make it count", Ian said. It was her first album in seven years.
The album contains political songs such as "His Hands" (about spousal abuse) and "Tattoo" (about the Holocaust). The title track, "Breaking Silence", is about incest. It also includes Ian's version of "Some People's Lives", previously recorded as the title track of Bette Midler's 1990 album. The album was nominated for a Grammy Award, making it Ian's seventh nomination.
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