
With her father's blessing, Nicks dropped out of college to pursue a musical career with Buckingham. Both Nicks and Buckingham attended San José State University, where Nicks majored in speech communication and planned to become an English teacher. Nicks credits the acts as having inspired her stage intensity and performance. Fritz later opened for Jimi Hendrix and Janis Joplin from 1968 until 1970. He asked Nicks in mid-1967 to replace the lead singer. She recalled, "I thought he was a darling." Buckingham was in a psychedelic rock band, Fritz, but two of its musicians were leaving for college. When she saw Buckingham playing " California Dreamin'" at Young Life club, she joined him in harmony. Nicks met her future musical and romantic partner, Lindsey Buckingham, during her senior year at Menlo-Atherton High School in Atherton, California. While attending Arcadia High School in Arcadia, California, she joined her first band, the Changing Times, a folk rock group focused on vocal harmonies. She spent her adolescence playing records constantly, and lived in her "own little musical world". With the Goya guitar that she received for her 16th birthday, Nicks wrote her first song, titled "I've Loved and I've Lost, and I'm Sad but Not Blue". Her father's frequent relocation as the president of Greyhound had the family living in Phoenix, Arizona Albuquerque, New Mexico El Paso, Texas Salt Lake City, Utah Los Angeles and San Francisco. As a toddler, Stephanie could pronounce her own name only as "tee-dee", which led to her nickname of "Stevie". Nicks's mother was protective, keeping her at home "more than most people" and fostered in her daughter a love of fairy tales. Nicks's grandfather, Aaron Jess "A.J." Nicks Sr., taught Nicks to sing duets with him by the time she was four years old. Nicks is of German, English and Irish ancestry. Stephanie "Stevie" Nicks was born at Good Samaritan Hospital in Phoenix, Arizona to Jess and Barbara Nicks. Life and career 1948–1971: Early life and career beginnings

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Rumours, the band's second album with Nicks, became one of the best-selling albums of all time, being certified 20× platinum in the US. Īfter starting her career as a duo with her then-boyfriend Lindsey Buckingham, releasing the album Buckingham Nicks to little success, Nicks joined Fleetwood Mac in 1975, helping the band to become one of the best-selling music acts of all time with over 120 million records sold worldwide.

She is known for her distinctive voice, mystical stage persona and poetic, symbolic lyrics. Stephanie Lynn Nicks (born May 26, 1948) is an American singer, songwriter, and producer known for her work with the band Fleetwood Mac and as a solo artist.
