Grace Slick
American painter and musician (born 1939) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Grace Slick (born Grace Barnett Wing; October 30, 1939)[1] is a retired American musician and a painter whose musical career spanned four decades. She was a prominent figure in San Francisco's psychedelic music scene during the mid-1960s to the early 1970s.[2]
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Born | Grace Barnett Wing (1939-10-30) October 30, 1939 (age 84) Highland Park, Illinois, U.S. |
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Initially performing with the Great Society, Slick achieved fame as the lead singer and frontwoman of Jefferson Airplane and the subsequent spinoff bands Jefferson Starship and Starship. Slick and Jefferson Airplane achieved significant success and popularity with their 1967 studio album Surrealistic Pillow, which included the top-ten US Billboard hits "White Rabbit" and "Somebody to Love".[3]
With Starship, she sang co-lead for two number-one hits, "We Built This City" and "Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now". She has released four studio albums as an independent artist. Slick retired from music in 1990, but continues to be active in visual arts.[3] In 1996, Slick was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of Jefferson Airplane.