Tracy nelson biography

Tracy Nelson (born in Madison, Wisconsin, on 27 December ) is an American singer. She fronted 60s blues band Mother Earth and recorded albums in her own name and as Marcia Ball, Irma Thomas and Tracy Nelson.

In her teens, Nelson sang folk music in coffeehouses and with The Fuller's Wood Singers group, and was lead singer in The Fabulous Imitations band.

In , Nelson moved to San Francisco where she became part of the SF music scene . The band she fronted, Mother Earth, played the Fillmore Auditorium, sharing bills with the Grateful Dead, Jefferson Airplane, Janis Joplin, and Jimi Hendrix. It was during this period that Nelson wrote and first recorded her signature song "Down So Low" (released on the Mother Earth album "Living with the Animals") that was later covered by a number of artists including Linda Ronstadt, and Etta James. Nelson re-recorded "Down So Low" herself several times.

In the late s, Nelson relocated to Nashville, where she an

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Before the age of fem, Tracy had a bio credit to her name. The daughter of singer Ricky Nelson and Kristin Harmon, she appeared as one of Henry Fonda's daughters in the movie Yours, Mine and Ours (). In , she became the popular Valley Girl "Jennifer DeNuccio" on the television series Square Pegs () which ran from This show made Tracy's name well known in Hollywood. She made a few small appearances in movies while continuing to pursue television roles, and returned in series Glitter (). Two years later, she was in the Nick Nolte/Bette Midler movie Down and Out in Beverly Hills (). In , Tracy was very sick and one month after her marriage to William R. Moses, she was diagnosed with Hodgkin's disease, but later cured. In , she returned to television as "Sister Stephanie 'Steve' Oskowski" in Father Dowling Mysteries (). Since that time, she has appeared in a handful of television movies, including the TV series A League of Their Own () and had

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Tracy Nelson (actress)

American actress

Tracy Kristine Nelson (born October 25, )^[2] is an American actress. From a long line of entertainers, she is the daughter of musician Ricky Nelson and actress and painter Kristin Nelson.

Early life

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Nelson was born in Santa Monica, California. She is a fourth-generation performer. Her great-grandparents were vaudeville performers Hazel Dell (née McNutt) and Roy Hilliard Snyder.^[3] Their daughter was her paternal grandmother Harriet Nelson,^[4] the star of the ABC-TV sitcomThe Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet from to Her parents were musician and film actor Ricky Nelson and actress/artist Kristin Nelson (née Harmon).^[5] She has three younger siblings: Matthew Nelson and Gunnar Nelson of the s rock group Nelson, and Sam Nelson. Her paternal grandparents were Ozzie and Harriet Hilliard Nelson. Nelson's maternal grandparents were football star Tom Harmon, a Heisman Trophy winner from the Uni