And made an appearance for the unveiling of the band's star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2022
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Grace Slick
Grace Slick is an American 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.
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culture · American painter and musician (born 1939) · singer · singer-songwriter · painter · composer · recording artist · musician · also Grace Slick, Grace Barnett Slick, Grace Wing Slick, Grace Victoria Barnett Wing, Slick
Born 30 October 1939 · Q229881
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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.
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2016· 1 entry
2015· 1 entry
Released album “Welcome to the Wrecking Ball / Software”.
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2010· 1 entry
Slick co-wrote "Edge of Madness" with singer Michelle Mangione to raise money for remediation efforts following the BP oil spill
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2007· 2 entries
“t remember a lot of things, which is perhaps no surprise given how much she drank and drugged herself into oblivion during her reign as a rock-and-roll queen. But she knows who she is today:”
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Slick attends many of her art gallery shows across the United States, sometimes attending more than 30 shows in a year
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2006· 4 entries
In 2006, Slick suffered from diverticulitis.
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Slick gave a speech at the inauguration of the new Virgin America airline, which named their first aircraft Jefferson Airplane
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Slick suffered from diverticulitis
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The popularity of her Alice in Wonderland works led to a partnership with Dark Horse Comics, which resulted in the release of stationery and journals with the Wonderland motif
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2000· 1 entry
Began displaying and selling her artwork
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1999· 1 entry
Released album “The Best of Grace Slick”.
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1996· 1 entry
Slick was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of Jefferson Airplane
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1995· 1 entry
When the band played at Los Angeles's House of Blues, as documented on the live album Deep Space/Virgin Sky
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1994· 1 entry
For assault with a deadly weapon after pointing an unloaded gun at a police officer
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1990· 1 entry
But continues to be active in visual arts
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1989· 1 entry
Slick and her former Jefferson Airplane band members reformed the group
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1988· 1 entry
Shortly after the release of No Protection
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1987· 1 entry
Slick co-hosted The Legendary Ladies of Rock & Roll, for which she also sang backing vocals on "Be My Baby" and "Da Doo Ron Ron"
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1985· 1 entry
Shortly after her 46th birthday, and Slick subsequently broke her own record with "Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now" in April 1987
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1984· 1 entry
Released album “Software”.
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1981· 2 entries
As Best Rock Female Vocalist for her solo album Dreams
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Released album “Welcome to the Wrecking Ball!”.
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1980· 1 entry
Released album “Dreams”.
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1979· 2 entries
“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.”
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“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.”
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1974· 1 entry
Released album “Manhole”.
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1973· 2 entries
With bandmates Kantner and David Freiberg: Baron von Tollbooth & the Chrome Nun
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Released album “Baron Von Tollbooth & The Chrome Nun”.
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1971· 3 entries
Released album “Sunfighter”.
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She has a daughter, actress China Wing Kantner, born January 25, 1971.
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Slick was severely injured when she crashed a car into the inside of a tunnel in San Francisco
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1970· 1 entry
Released album “Somebody to Love”.
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1968· 2 entries
Slick performed "Crown of Creation" on The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour in blackface and ended the performance with a Black Panther raised fist
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Released album “Vol.2 - Collectors Item : How It Was”.
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1965· 1 entry
The band made its debut performance at a venue known as the Coffee Gallery
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1939· 2 entries
Born 1939-10-30.
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In Chicago, to Ivan Wing, an investment banker, and Virginia Barnett Wing, a retired singer
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