Nickey barclay biography of christopher
11 likes, 2 comments - sound_of_white_noise on April 21, "Happy birthday to Nickey Barclay of Fanny.
Trying to track down the elusive Nickey Barclay, the former keyboardist for Fanny, is very akin to finding the proverbial needle in the haystack.!
Nickey Barclay
American singer, songwriter and musician
Musical artist
Nicole Barclay (born 1951)[1] is an American singer, songwriter and musician.
She was a member of the all-female rock group Fanny and has collaborated with Joe Cocker, Barbra Streisand and Keith Moon.
Career
In the late 1960s, Barclay joined the collective of session musicians known as the Musicians Contact Service in Los Angeles.
In January 1970, she was asked to join the all-female rock group Fanny as a singer and keyboardist.[2] She was one of the main songwriters and lead singers in the group, and appeared on all their albums, adding soul, blues and funk influences to the group's overall sound.[2][3]
After joining Joe Cocker for a few months on his March 1970 US tour as a backing vocalist, during which she was recorded for the live album Mad Dogs and Englishmen, Barclay returned to Fanny.[4][5] She played on Barbra Streisand's 1971 alb