Grace Slick
Sign in to saveAlso known as Grace Barnett Slick, Grace Wing Slick, Grace Victoria Barnett Wing
American musician, writer and painter
Person · Open Library
- Works
- 6
Top works
- Grace Slick : Somebody to Love?
- Hippie Chick
- Somebody to love?
- A dream
- Somebody to Love? a Rockandroll Memoir
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Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Female
- Origin
- United States
- Active from
- 1939-10-30
Discography
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 62,257
- Total plays
- 499,197
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Grace Slick (born Grace Barnett Wing, October 30, 1939) is a rock music icon, serving as the lead singer of the rock groups Jefferson Airplane, Jefferson Starship and Starship for nearly two decades, from the 60s through the 80s. She also has had a notable solo career. Slick is considered to be one of the most important musicians in bringing the 1960s psychedelic rock to mainstream appeal. She is known for her witty, influential, thought provoking lyrics. <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Grac
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
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Quotes
- “I was appalled that the San Francisco ethic didn't mushroom and envelope the whole world into this loving community of acid freaks. I was very naive.”
- “It was the first time many of the bands had met and saw each other perform, so we were all really marveling at each other. It was just one good group of people after another. And different kinds of music — from Jimi Hendrix to Ravi Shankar, The Mamas and the Papas to The Who. They had a backstage area where there was food being served 24 hours a day, so everybody was wandering around meeting each other. It was just amazing.”
- “She's more even -[daughter China] - I think it jumps generations. You get a screwball in one, and then the next one is straight, then you get a screwball. My grandmother was goofy, my mother was straight.”
- “But we all do sort of the same thing and that is rearrange what you thought was real, and, uh, they remind you of the beauty of very simple things. You forget, because you're so busy going from A to Z, that there's, uh, 24 letters in between.”
- “One pill makes you largerAnd one pill makes you small,And the ones that mother gives youDon't do anything at all.Go ask AliceWhen she's ten feet tall.”
- “And if you go chasing rabbitsAnd you know you're going to fall,Tell 'em a hookah smoking caterpillarHas given you the call.Call AliceWhen she was just small”
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Key facts
- Born
- Grace Barnett Wing , ( 1939-10-30 ) October 30, 1939 (age 86) , Highland Park, Illinois , U.S.
- Other names
- Gracie The Chrome Nun The Acid Queen
- Occupations
- Painter musician (retired)
- Years active
- 1964–1990 (music career), 1995–present (painting career)
- Genres
- Psychedelic rock progressive rock blues rock pop
- Instruments
- Vocals keyboards recorder
- Label
- RCA
- Formerly of
- The Great Society Jefferson Airplane Jefferson Starship Starship Hot Tuna
- Spouses
- Gerald "Jerry" Slick ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1961 ; divorced</span>"}]]}'>div. 1971 ) Skip Johnson ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1976 ; divorced</span>"}]]}'>div. 1994 )
- Website
- graceslick .com
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Wikidata facts
- Image
- Grace Slick ca. 1967.jpg
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- Commons category
- Grace Slick
- date of birth
- 1939-10-30
- social media followers
- 31958
- name in native language
- Grace Wing Slick
- start of work period
- 1964-00-00
- birth name
- Grace Barnett Wing
- married name
- Grace Barnett Slick
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Grace Slick (born Grace Barnett Wing; October 30, 1939) is an American painter and musician 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.
Initially performing with the Great Society, Slick achieved fame as the lead singer and frontwoman of Jefferson Airplane and its 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".