Stevie Nicks
Stephanie Lynn Nicks is an American singer and songwriter. She is known for her distinctive voice, mystical stage persona and poetic, symbolic lyrics. Nicks joined Fleetwood Mac in 1975 along with her then-boyfriend Lindsey Buckingham. Rumours was the best-selling album of the year of its release and to date has sold over 40 million copies worldwide.
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Stephanie Lynn Nicks is an American singer and songwriter. She is known for her distinctive voice, mystical stage persona and poetic, symbolic lyrics. Nicks joined Fleetwood Mac in 1975 along with her then-boyfriend Lindsey Buckingham. Rumours was the best-selling album of the year of its release and to date has sold over 40 million copies worldwide. In 1981, while remaining a member of FleetwoodMac, Nicks began her solo career, releasing the studio album Bella Donna. She has garnered eight Grammy Award nominations and two American Music Award nominations as a solo artist. She was named one of the 100 Greatest Songwriters of All Time by Rolling Stone. She will be inducted twice into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, as a member. in 1998 and as a Solo artist in 2019. Nicks was born in Phoenix, Arizona to Jess, and Barbara Nicks. She is of German, English and Irish ancestry. She met her future musical and romantic partner, Lindsey Buckingham, during her senior year at Menlo-Atherton High School in Atherton, California. She wrote her first song, titled \”I’ve Loved and I’ve Lost, and I’m Sad but Not Blue\”. She spent her adolescence playing records constantly, and lived in her ‘own little musical world’ Nicks’s grandfather, Aaron Jess Nicks Sr, taught her to sing duets with him by the time she was four years old. She joined her first band, the Changing Times, a folk rock group focused on vocal harmonies.
She credits Jimi Hendrix and Janis Joplin as having inspired her stage intensity and performance. In 2009 Nicks told Chris Isaak that cocaine was not dangerous, and that it was not a dangerous drug, as she had been told by the drug’s producers. She also said that she was experimenting with cocaine for the first time in her adult life, but she was soon experimenting with it for the second time as well. She and Buckingham have a daughter, daughter-in-law, and a son-to-be. She currently lives in Los Angeles with her husband, John McVie, and their son, Stevie Nicks, and has a daughter with her ex-husband, Michael Nicks. She lives with her mother in Phoenix and has two step-daughters, who live in New Mexico and New York City with her boyfriend, Michael McVee. She works as a personal trainer and lives in San Francisco with her wife, Christine. She recently moved to Los Angeles to be closer to her daughter, who lives in New York with her fiance, Michael J. Blanco. In 2011, she moved to San Francisco to live with her son, Michael Blanco, and her daughter- in-law Christine, and had a baby daughter, Ava, with whom she also has a son, Alex. In 2012, she and Lindsey Buckingham began dating again, and in 2013, they started dating again.
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