Stephanie Lynn Nicks born May 26, [ 1 ] is an American singer-songwriter, known for her work with the band Fleetwood Mac and as a solo artist. After 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 , helping the band to become one of the best-selling music acts of all time with over million records sold worldwide.
Her Fleetwood Mac songs " Landslide ", " Rhiannon ", and " Dreams ", with the last being the band's only number one hit in the U. Nicks has garnered eight Grammy Award [ 9 ] nominations and two American Music Award nominations as a solo artist. Nicks is of German, English, Welsh, and Irish ancestry. Nicks's grandfather, Aaron Jess "A. Nicks's mother was protective, keeping her at home "more than most people" and fostered in her daughter a love of fairy tales.
As a toddler, Stephanie could only pronounce her name as "tee-dee", which led to her nickname of "Stevie". She spent her adolescence playing records constantly and lived in her "own little musical world". While attending Arcadia High School in Arcadia , California, [ 19 ] she joined her first band, the Changing Times, a folk rock band focused on vocal harmonies.
He asked Nicks, in mid, to replace the lead singer. Fritz later opened for Jimi Hendrix and Janis Joplin from until Nicks credits both acts as inspiring her stage intensity and performance. After Fritz disbanded in , Nicks and Buckingham continued to write as a duo, recording demo tapes at night in Daly City , California, on a one-inch, four-track Ampex tape machine Buckingham kept at the coffee-roasting plant belonging to his father. The album was not a commercial success and Polydor dropped the pair.
With no money coming in from their album, and Buckingham contracting mononucleosis shortly thereafter, Nicks began working multiple jobs. She waited tables and cleaned producer Keith Olsen 's house, where Nicks and Buckingham lived for a time before moving in with Richard Dashut. While living with Dashut, Buckingham landed a guitar role with the Everly Brothers tour. Nicks stayed behind working on songwriting herself. Five years later, a fan sent her the Mabinogion novels of Evangeline Walton that featured the legendary character Rhiannon, and Nicks later bought the film rights to Walton's work in the hopes of bringing the epic to the screen.
