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Date of Birth

26 May 1948, Phoenix, Arizona, USA

Birth Name

Stephanie Lynn Nicks

Height

5' 1½" (1.56 m)

Mini Biography

Stevie Nicks was born in Phoenix, Arizona. From an early age, she showed a love and aptitude for music, singing country and western duets with her grandfather when she was 4 years old. After moving to San Francisco, she began songwriting and performing at Menlo-Atherton High School, where she met her future long-time companion, Lindsey Buckingham. After smaller projects failed, she and Lindsey signed with Polydor Records, and produced their collaboration, "Buckingham-Nicks". The album flopped, and the two (who were now lovers) were dropped from the label, but not before attracting the attention of Mick Fleetwood, who invited them to join Fleetwood Mac. Two years later, in 1975, Fleetwood Mac's self-titled album topped the charts, headlined by Stevie's "Rhiannon". Success for the band, and for Stevie, was immediate. The legendary "Rumours" album followed in 1977, at the same time Stevie's relationship with Lindsey came to an end. Stevie's solo career began in 1981 and met with instant success. The stress of maintaining a solo career and remaining with Fleetwood Mac became too much for her, and she became addicted to cocaine, and then to prescription medication. After undergoing treatment for her addictions, Stevie vowed she would never perform publicly again, but was lured out of retirement for Fleetwood Mac's 1997 reunion and continues to perform, write and record.

IMDb Mini Biography By: Jason A. Cormier

Spouse

Kim Anderson

(29 January 1983 - April 1984) (divorced)

Trade Mark

husky voice.

Mystical clothing

Trivia

Singer with Fleetwood Mac.

Born at 3:02am-MST.

Stevie's long awaited seventh album "Trouble In Shangri-La" is released. [May 1, 2001]

Was used as the template for the "Pokémon" (1998) character, Jynx.

British punk group The Rotters recorded a love song entitled "Sit On My Face, Stevie Nicks (a dedication)," which got quickly banned.

Inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1998 (as a member of Fleetwood Mac.

Measurements: 34 1/2B-24-35 (early career with Fleetwood Mac), (Source: Celebrity Sleuth magazine).

Ranked #14 on VH1's 100 Greatest Women of Rock N Roll.

Before they joined Fleetwood Mac, she and guitarist Lindsey Buckingham were in Buckingham Nicks.

Sister-in-law of Lori Perry.

According to her official site, The Nicks Fix, her first solo album, "Bella Donna", has gone multi-platinum 5X with 5,000,000 record sales. The 1981 album upgrade was recently listed on the RIAA website, though the certification date is 13 October 2004.

Mentioned on the song "Not Even Stevie Nicks" by Calexico.

Wrote the song "Silver Springs" for Fleetwood Mac's biggest-selling album "Rumours" (1977) but it was cut out of the final release. Years later, she asked Mick Fleetwood if she could use the song for her "best of" solo compilation ("Timespace - The Best of Stevie Nicks") but he wouldn't give her the rights. This eventually led her to (temporarily) leave the band. Ironically, for the reunion tour in 1998 (The Dance), the band was nominated for a Grammy®, The nominated song? "Silver Springs".

Close friends (and sometime collaborator) with Sheryl Crow.

Ranked #52 on VH1's 100 Sexiest Artists.

Good friends and collaborator with Chris Isaak.

Re-interpretation of her "Seventeen" song is popular among the band Jonas.

Fleetwood Mac was awarded a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for Recording at 6608 Hollywood Boulevard in Hollywood, California.

Thanked by the Gin Blossoms in the liner notes of their album "Congratulations I'm Sorry".

Thanked by Courtney Love in the liner notes of Hole's album "Celebrity Skin".

Personal Quotes

I wouldn't like to be in movies. Movie people are strange. They live a different life than musicians do. And I really think they're much wilder than we are. One time, four movie guys walked up to me at a party after a show. I was looking good. And they took me apart with their eyes. The hair on my arms stood up.

As a member of Fleetwood Mac, for two weeks I was still working at the restaurant because I'd given them notice. I didn't just want to walk in there and say, 'I'm going to be a famous rock star so I quit and I never liked your food anyway.'

The whole hugeness of it all had really hit everybody very hard. And the biggest thing is Chris and I got a lot of attention because we were the girls, and they didn't like that. They didn't like it then; they don't like it now.

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