Grace Slick

~ Person

Legal name: Grace Barnett Wing

Wikipedia

Grace Slick (born Grace Barnett Wing; October 30, 1939) is an American retired musician and painter 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 the subsequent 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".

With Starship, she sang co-lead for two number-one hits, "We Built This City" and "Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now". She has released four studio albums as an independent artist. Slick retired from music in 1990, but continues to be active in visual arts. In 1996, Slick was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of Jefferson Airplane.

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Discography

Album

YearTitleArtistRatingReleases
1968Vol.2 - Collectors Item : How It WasGrace Slick And The Great Society1
1971SunfighterPaul Kantner & Grace Slick4
1973Baron Von Tollbooth & The Chrome NunPaul Kantner, Grace Slick & David Freiberg3
1974ManholeGrace Slick32
1980DreamsGrace Slick42
1981Welcome to the Wrecking Ball!Grace Slick24
1984SoftwareGrace Slick11

Album + Compilation

YearTitleArtistRatingReleases
1970Somebody to LoveGrace Slick and The Great Society1
1999The Best of Grace SlickGrace Slick2
2015Welcome to the Wrecking Ball / SoftwareGrace Slick1

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