User:Carolyn81/Sandbox/Stevie Nicks

This is a part of the Stevie Nicks article that I am currently working on.

Early life
Nicks was born at Good Samaritan Hospital in Phoenix, Arizona to Jess and Barbara Nicks. As a young child, she had difficulty pronouncing her given name Stephanie, and as a result, began calling herself "Stevie". The nickname stuck.

Her mother fostered in her a love for fairy tales, while her grandfather, a struggling country singer, began teaching her to sing at the age of four. Stevie has a brother named Christopher who is married to Lori Perry, one of Stevie's backup singers and ex-wife of producer Gordon Perry.

With her first guitar Goya, at age sixteen, she wrote her first song called "I've Loved and I've Lost, and I'm Sad But Not Blue". She soon joined her first band 'The Changing Times' (named after a Bob Dylan song) while attending Arcadia High School in California.

Nicks first met her future musical and romantic partner Lindsey Buckingham during her senior year at Menlo Atherton High School. She and Buckingham attended a religious meeting called Young Life, where together they sang California Dreamin'. Buckingham remembered Nicks' enchantingly unique voice. A few years later, he contacted Nicks and asked her to join a band (with Javier Pacheco and Calvin Roper) called Fritz, which became popular as a live act from 1968 until 1972. Fritz opened for big-name acts Jimi Hendrix and Janis Joplin, among others in the San Francisco Bay Area. Both Nicks and Buckingham attended San Jose State University in Northern California, where Nicks majored in Speech Communication.