Stephanie Lynn Nicks was born to Barbara and Jess Nicks on may26,1948 at Good Samaritan Hospital in Phoenix,AZ. Jess was a Corporate President.Barbara was a housewife and was protective of her daughter.She was kept inside much of the time,and Barbara would read fairy tales to little Stephanie.Stephanie had trouble pronouncing her name,so she called herself Stevie.At the age of four she sang country songs with her grandfather,Aaron Jess Nicks,including Goldie Hill and Red Sovine's "Are You Mine".Stevie was close to her grandfather,and he had an influence on her choosing music as a career path.AJ lived out of two trailers in the Arizona mountains.He played guitar,fiddle,and harmonica.He took freight trains all over,and was a pool shark.Stevie's brother Chris was born when she was five.Due to Jess career changes,the family moved quite often. In 1965 Stevie attented Arcadia High School in Los Angeles CA,where she had just joined her first band,The Changing Times, a folk outfit.Then in 1966 the family moved to Atherton CA,where she attented Menlo-Atherton High School for junior and senior years,and met Lindsey Buckingham,who was a sophomore.In 1968 her family moved to Chicago,and Stevie stayed behind in California She quit San Jose State in 1968 just short of recievinga degreein Speech Communication after five years of college.She had planned on becoming an English teacher.Instead, she transitioned into a touring professional musician.She went on the road with the Fritz Raybyne Memorial Band.In 1973 Stevie,Lindsey,Richard Dashut,and Tom Moncrieff shared a house in Los Angeles. Durning these lean times,Stevie worked for one day as a dental assistant,was a waitress at Copper Penny,Clementine's(a Be- verly Hills single's restaurant),and did housekeeping for her record producer,Keith Olsen.Lindsey did some phone sales,but mostly sat around the house practicing his guitar.Stevie's first recorded music can be heard on "Buckingham Nicks",released in 1973.Then,on New Years Eve 1974,a fateful phone call came that would change Stevie's life forever.It was Mick Fleetwood drummer for the band Fleetwood Mac.He had heard Stevie and Lindsey's "Frozen Love"at Sound city recording studios,and was impressed by the guitarist,a position that needed filling in his current band.Mick asked Stevie and Lindsey to join Fleetwood Mac,and no audition was required.For 15 years. from 1975 to 1990,Stevie sang lead for Fleetwood Mac.According to Stevie,she left the band over a disagreement with Mick over rights to the song "Silver Springs",which she wrote intending royalties to be funneled to her mother.Mick had refused to allow Stevie to release "Silver Springs" on her 1991 greatest hits collection "TimeSpace".She concurrently had a successful recording and touring career as a solo act beginning in 1981 and continuing to this day. thanks to clmoon for the stevie biography This page hosted by Get your own Free Home Page