Grace Slick was born on Grace Barnett Wing; October 30,1939 and is an American painter and retired musician.
55 Facts About Grace Slick
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Grace Slick is best known for her musical career, which spanned four decades.
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Grace Slick first performed with the Great Society, but is best known for her time and work with Jefferson Airplane and the subsequent spinoff bands Jefferson Starship and Starship.
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Grace Slick has released four studio albums as an independent artist.
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Grace Slick retired from music in 1990, but continues to be active in visual arts.
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Grace Slick was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1996 as a member of Jefferson Airplane.
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Grace Slick Barnett Wing was born October 30,1939, in the Chicago suburb of Highland Park, Illinois, to Ivan Wilford Wing, of British descent, and Virginia Wing.
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Grace Slick's parents met while they were both students at the University of Washington, and later married.
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Grace Slick's father, working in the investment banking sector for Weeden and Company, was transferred several times when she was a child, and in addition to the Chicago metropolitan area, she lived in Los Angeles and San Francisco, California, before her family finally settled in Palo Alto, California, in the early 1950s.
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Grace Slick started composing music, including a contribution to a short film by Jerry Grace Slick.
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On October 15,1965, the band made its debut performance at a venue known as the Coffee Gallery, and soon after Grace Slick composed the psychedelic piece "White Rabbit".
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One single emerged from the demos, the Darby Grace Slick-penned "Somebody to Love" on the locally based Autumn Records subsidiary label "North Beach".
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Grace Slick stated that she joined the Airplane because it was run in a professional manner, unlike the Great Society.
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In 1968, Grace Slick performed "Crown of Creation" on The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour in blackface and ended the performance with a Black Panther raised fist.
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Sears and Grace Slick penned several early Jefferson Starship songs together, including "Hyperdrive" and "Play On Love".
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Grace Slick was nicknamed "The Chrome Nun" by David Crosby, who used the nickname "Baron von Tollbooth" for Kantner.
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Grace Slick left Starship in 1988, shortly after the release of No Protection.
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Grace Slick has done many renditions of her fellow 1960s musicians, such as Janis Joplin, Jerry Garcia, and others.
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Grace Slick has had a passion for art since she was a child, before she pivoted to music.
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Grace Slick attends many of her art shows across the United States.
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Grace Slick has generally refrained from engaging in the music business, although she did perform on "Knock Me Out", a track from In Flight, the 1996 solo debut from former 4 Non Blondes singer, and friend of daughter China, Linda Perry.
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Grace Slick was placed in an induced coma for two months and then had to learn to walk again.
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Also in 2006, Grace Slick gave a speech at the inauguration of the new Virgin America airline, which named their first aircraft Jefferson Airplane.
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In 2010, Grace Slick co-wrote "Edge of Madness" with singer Michelle Mangione to raise money for remediation efforts following the BP oil spill.
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Grace Slick accepted Jefferson Airplane's Grammy Lifetime Achievement awards in 2016, and made an appearance for the unveiling of the band's star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2022.
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Grace Slick was married to cinematographer and drummer Gerald "Jerry" Grace Slick from 1961 to 1971, then to lighting designer Skip Johnson from 1976 to 1994.
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Grace Slick has a daughter, actress China Wing Kantner, born January 25,1971.
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China's father is Jefferson Airplane guitarist Paul Kantner, with whom Grace Slick had a relationship from 1969 to 1975.
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In 1971, Grace Slick was severely injured when the car she was driving crashed into the inside of a tunnel in San Francisco.
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Grace Slick has publicly acknowledged her alcoholism and use of substances including LSD and marijuana.
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Grace Slick has discussed this, and her rehabilitation experiences, in her autobiography, various interviews, and several published celebrity addiction and recovery books.
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Grace Slick's alcoholism became a problem for the band during Jefferson Starship's 1978 European tour.
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Grace Slick performed the next night with the band but was so inebriated that she could not sing properly.
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Grace Slick attacked the audience, mocking Germany for losing World War II and groping both female audience members and bandmates.
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Grace Slick left the group the next day, and she was "dragged off" a San Francisco game show for abusing the contestants.
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Grace Slick was admitted to a detoxification facility at least twice, once during the 1970s at Duffy's in Napa Valley, and once in the 1990s with daughter China.
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President Richard Nixon's daughter Tricia and Grace Slick are both alumnae of Finch College, and Grace Slick was invited to a tea party for the alumnae at the White House in 1969.
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Grace Slick invited anarchist Abbie Hoffman to be her escort and planned to spike President Nixon's tea with 600 micrograms of LSD, but the party had been billed as an "all ladies" event.
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Grace Slick declined to attend once Hoffman was denied entry, and the two ran across the street to a waiting car.
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Grace Slick was arrested at least four times for what she has referred to as "TUI" and "drunk mouth".
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Grace Slick was arrested in 1994 for assault with a deadly weapon after pointing an unloaded gun at a police officer.
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Grace Slick alleged that the officer had come onto her property without explanation.
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Grace Slick's agent saw her artwork and asked her to do some portraits of some of her various contemporaries from the rock-and-roll genre to be included in the autobiography.
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Grace Slick uses acrylic paints, canvas, pen, ink, scratchboard, pastels, and pencil.
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Grace Slick's styles include the children's bookish Alice in Wonderland themes, realistic rock and roll portraits, scratchboards of animals, minimalist ink wash-styled nudes and a variety of other subjects and styles.
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Grace Slick, famous as a rock 'n' roll singer, was one of the earliest female rock stars alongside her close contemporary Janis Joplin, and was an important figure in the development of rock music in the late 1960s.
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Between 1985 and 1999, Grace Slick was the oldest female vocalist on a Billboard Hot 100 chart-topping single.
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Grace Slick broke her own record in April 1987 at age 47 when "Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now" topped the US charts.
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Grace Slick's record stood for 12 years but was ultimately broken by Cher, who was 53 in 1999 when "Believe" hit number one.
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Grace Slick did vocals for a piece known as "Jazz Numbers", a series of animated shorts about the numbers two through 10, which aired on Sesame Street.
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Grace Slick was nominated for a Grammy Award in 1981 as Best Rock Female Vocalist for her solo album Dreams.
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Grace Slick performed the song "Panda" at the 1990 March for the Animals.
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Grace Slick was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1996 as a member of Jefferson Airplane.
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Grace Slick was ranked number 20 on VH1's 100 Greatest Women of Rock N Roll in 1999.
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In 2017, Grace Slick licensed the Starship song "Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now" to Chick-fil-A to use in a TV commercial, but because she disagrees with Chick-fil-A's corporate views on same-sex marriage she gave all of the proceeds of that deal to Lambda Legal, an organization that works to advance the civil rights of LGBTQ people and everyone living with HIV.