Nicks dedicates new album to young fan who died of cancer

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Stevie Nicks

Nicks dedicates new album to young fan who died of cancer

May 2, 2011, 11:49 AM EST

WENN

Singer/songwriter Stevie Nicks has dedicated her latest album to a fan who lost her battle with cancer in 2008.

The Fleetwood Mac singer's "In Your Dreams" is dedicated to "Sara, my sweet girl" and Nicks explains the mention is for a fan who became a good friend.

She tells Spinner.com, "She had a very rare kind of cancer, and our friend Lisa Loeb connected me and her parents. They brought her to a show, and we became very close. She was about 21 when I met her, and she'd been fighting this cancer since she was 17.

"I was in very close contact with her and her parents through three years. In 2008, I flew to Pennsylvania and spent a day with her. She died three days later...When Sara died, I was in Mexico in a very quiet house, and I was hit extremely hard. She loved my music so much, and she wanted me to do another record so much, and I was still on that 'I'm never going to do another record' kick."

"I just loved her so much," she adds, "and it was very hard to lose her. She fought a really good fight between 17 and 24, and I dedicated the record to her because I felt in so many ways that it belonged to her."