Stevie Nicks is known for her smoky voice, flowing shawls, and twirling tambourine playing when on stage. “The reason I started playing was so when I wasn’t singing, I had something to do. It became more important in Fleetwood Mac, because I only sing a third of the time, so I had more time to perfect my tambourine playing. I’m very practiced at twirling. I took a lot of ballet — I always wanted to work the dancing in. The reason I wear the ponchos and the big shawl-y chiffon things is because I realized from a very young age, if you were 5 foot 1, and you wanted to make big moves and be seen from a long way away, if you weren’t twirling a baton of fire, you needed something that was gonna make you show up. Like a Las Vegas showgirl, really. You need big moves.”
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