Met at a party held for Dizzy Gillespie
Born on July 9, 1964, in San Francisco, no one could have predicted the wild, extraordinary life that lay ahead.
She was the first child of a psychotherapist mother and a father who managed the Grateful Dead. Her godfather? Phil Lesh, the band’s founding bassist. And by the way, her parents met at a party held for Dizzy Gillespie in 1963.
According to her mother, our star showed signs of brilliance from an early age: “Her imagination was fabulous — she was always making up plays and stories. She had an amazing, creative, artistic energy.”
”I was actually doing a lot of children’s radio, and I was going to the Ashland Shakespeare festival camp for children that we have in Ashland, Oregon every year. So I knew a lot about acting as a child – I wanted to be an actress – I also wanted to be a rock musician – so I wanted both things,” our icon wrote in her memoirs.
