Stevie Nicks

Stephanie Lynn Nicks was born on May 26, 1948, in Phoenix, Arizona, and learned country duets with her grandfather as a child; she has cited a tap dance routine at a sixth-grade talent show as the spark for her wish to perform. In 1974 Fleetwood Mac, a band that had grown out of British blues, asked Nicks and her then-partner, the singer and guitarist Lindsey Buckingham, to join after Mick Fleetwood heard a track the two had recorded as a duo. The new lineup’s self-titled 1975 album reached number one in the United States in 1976. Rumours followed in 1977, with “Dreams” as its second single, and “Rhiannon” and “Landslide” are among her other best-known songs with the band. Her 1981 solo debut, Bella Donna , paired a rootsy sound with images of demons, dreams, mountains, and doves, and “Edge of Seventeen” reached number 11 on the Hot 100; the album was certified 4x Platinum by the RIAA in 1990. The Wild Heart (1983) brought “Stand Back” and reached 2x Platinum in 1993, and her later solo albums Rock a Little , The Other Side of the Mirror , and Trouble in Shangri-La each hold Gold or Platinum certifications. She shared Fleetwood Mac’s Grammy for Album of the Year for Rumours , which has been in the Grammy Hall of Fame since 2003, and her solo Grammy nominations include “Edge of Seventeen,” “Stand Back,” and the concert video Stevie Nicks: Live at Red Rocks . In 2018 Fleetwood Mac became the first band to receive the MusiCares Person of the Year award. In 2020 a TikTok resurgence of “Dreams” gave Nicks the number one spot on Billboard’s Hot 100 Songwriters chart. In December 2020 she partnered with Primary Wave Music on her publishing copyrights, her name and likeness, and brand alliance and marketing opportunities, in an alliance through which she can sign new songwriters to a joint venture. That year she had also released “Show Them The Way,” her first new music in six years, with a video directed by Cameron Crowe, and in October her concert film, Stevie Nicks 24 Karat Gold The Concert , was released.