Grace Barnett Wing, better known by her married title, Grace Slick (natural October 30 1939), was a lead singer by having the rock band, The Great Society, Jefferson Airplane, and Jefferson Starship in the 1960s through the 1980s.

She was innate within Evanston, Illinois, the daughter of Ivan W. Wing & his married woman Virginia Barnett.

Her simply girl, China Wing Kantner (b. 1971, another time referred to as Chinthe Slick Kantner), at present a streaming personality, was fathered by Paul Kantner, a Jefferson Airplane guitar player. Despite the lasting urban legend, China was non all but known as 'god' (look at Snopes: http://www.snopes.com/music/artists/godslick.htm).

Grace married Gerald "Jerry" Slick, the cameraman, & Skim Johnson, the Jefferson Starship lighting designer.

Grace Slick, world health organizatiin left a Starship inside 1988, is at present retired & enjoys painting, is an advocate for fleshly rights, & too however enjoys working on music.

Grace Slick was super celebrated for her controversial lyrics, drug have, & public persona. She another time planned to lace Nixon's tea using LSD, however was thwarted by Secret Service professionals. A few of her solo albums come Manhole, Dreams, & Welcome to the Wrecking Ball. Notable songs recorded by having Jefferson Airplane/Starship include "White Rabbit", "Somebody to Love", "We Built This City" and "Nothing's Gonna Stop Us".

Alongside her close contemporary Janis Joplin, Grace Slick was an important however great deal-underrated figure in the development of rock'n'roll in the late Sixties. Her distinctive vocal style exerted the definite influence in more female performing artist, such Sandy Denny and, like Joplin, Slick's sturdy personthe & mighty voice helped to open higher recently modes of expression for female performing artist, rendering a newly legitimacy to the role of the female lead singer in the male-dominated globe of popular music.