By that time the pair was living together, as well as collaborating musically. Around 1968, after Nicks left San Jose State College without earning a degree, she and Buckingham joined a San Francisco acid rock group named Fritz. Like Nicks, he was a singer and musician and had already begun to write songs the two were drawn to one another. One of Nicks ’s fellow students in her new high school was Lindsey Buckingham. But another one of her father ’s moves took her to California ’s San Francisco Bay area to complete her secondary education. Later, in her sophomore year at a Los Angeles, California, high school, Nicks sang with a vocal group modeled on the Mamas and Papas, called Changing Times. He taught Stevie the female parts in some old call-and-response country standards well before her fifth birthday, and took her with him to perform in gin mills. According to Timothy White in his 1984 book Rock Stars, Nicks obtained her introduction to music from her eccentric grandfather, Aaron Jess Nicks, a failed country singer. Her father ’s stints as an executive with various corporations decreed that she move many times in her childhood and adolescence, living in the states of New Mexico, Texas, Utah, and California. Nicks was born May 26, 1948, in Phoenix, Arizona.
She has had smash duets such as “Whenever I Call You Friend ” with Kenny Loggins and “Stop Dragging My Heart Around ” with Tom Petty, and popular solo hits, including “Stand Back, ” “Talk to Me, ” and “Rooms on Fire. ” Though Nicks has continued as a productive member of the band, she has also released several successful solo albums, from 1981 ’s Bella Donna to 1989 ’s The Other Side of the Mirror.
Her singing and songwriting were responsible for many of the hit singles that brought Fleetwood Mac supergroup status in the late 1970s, including “Rhiannon ” and “Dreams. Stevie Nicks first came to the attention of rock and pop audiences when she and Lindsey Buckingham joined the already established band Fleetwood Mac in 1975.
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