American singer-songwriter, musician, artist and former model, the queen of acid-rock with “Jefferson Airplane,” which evolved into “Jefferson Starship.” In 1979 she put the group on the back burner and focused on a solo album instead. Six years later the band had a bitter split.
She married the bands former light man, Skip Johnson, but the relationship didn’t last. In 1981 she had a daughter named China with the band’s guitarist, Paul Kantner, but they never married.
At the time of the Woodstock festival in 1969 she was a non-user. She later went on to develop a long-time drinking habit.
In 1982, she stopped doing drugs and alcohol altogether. Her sober streak apparently ended inasmuch as on 3/05/1994, the police in Tiburon, CA received a call that a drunk woman was firing a gun. When police arrived she threatened three officers with an unloaded shotgun. At her trial on a felony weapons charge, she settled for a plea bargain that set her free on $7,000 bail and required her to attend an alcohol treatment program. As of late 1994 she was attending four AA meetings a week and seeing a psychologist.
Her large four-bedroom home was destroyed by fire 9/16/1993, started by an accidental spark from welders working nearby. Estimated damage at $700,000.
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