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China Wing Kantner (born January 25, 1971), is an American actress of television, theatre and the cinema. She is also a former MTV VJ. ==Biography== Kantner was born in San Francisco, California, the daughter of Jefferson Airplane and Jefferson Starship bandmembers, singer Grace Slick (born Wing) and guitarist Paul Kantner.〔("Daughter born to pop singer" ) January 26, 1971, The Day 〕 She is a native of San Francisco, living first in the city itself, and later in Marin County, just north of the city, and is an alumna of Tamalpais High School in Mill Valley, California and Redwood High School, Larkspur, California. She has an older half-brother, Gareth Alexander Kantner, who works in the film industry,〔(Bio ) IMDb web site〕 and a younger half-brother, Alexander Kantner, who occasionally appears on-stage with Jefferson Starship playing bass guitar. A common misbelief is that her name was originally "god" (with a small "g"), and was only later changed to "China". However, Jeff Tamarkin's 2003 book on the history of Jefferson Airplane, ''Got a Revolution: The Turbulent Flight of Jefferson Airplane'', explains this resulted from a sardonic remark made by her mother to a nurse.〔''Got a Revolution: The Turbulent Flight of Jefferson Airplane'', Tamarkin, 2003, p235〕 In San Francisco County, a birth was registered for January 25, 1971, for a female child with the surname Kantner. The mother's maiden surname was Wing. No given name was registered for the child at that time. While working for MTV, she was sometimes credited on-screen as "China Slick Kantner", although this was never her legal name. Later in her MTV career, she was credited simply as "China Kantner". In January 1988, she was interviewed by Jonathan King for the BBC TV show ''Entertainment USA'' as part of a feature on the children of rock stars working as MTV VJs. During this interview, she stated that, while she initially did not like her name, she grew to like it as she got older.〔("This interview aired on the BBC's "Entertainment USA" programme in early January 1988 as part of a feature on the children of famous rock musicians working as MTV" )〕 She first appeared as an infant on the sleeve of the Kantner/Slick 1971 solo LP ''Sunfighter''. She has also been given co-songwriting credits by her father on several of his songs. She also sang a song on his 1983 album ''Planet Earth Rock and Roll Orchestra''. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「China Kantner」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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