She was also an accomplished classical violinist, who studied at The Royal Conservatory of Music and performed many comedic musical duets with mentor Jack Benny. Her biggest selling song was 'Hard To Get' in 1955. In 1953 she reached #6 in the UK Singles Chart, with her rendition of 'Seven Lonely Days'. MacKenzie recorded albums and singles on various record labels, most notably Capitol and RCA, Everest, Mercury, Liberty Sunset, Cricket Playhour (Pickwick). She moved to Los Angeles, California, in 1951 to replace The Andrews Sisters on CBS Radio's daily program, Club Fifteen, starring Bob Crosby, where she alternated as regular vocalist with Jo Stafford. She had at least two Canadian Broadcasting Corporation radio programs, Meet Gisèle, where she played hostess to Jack Benny, Clark Gable, Loretta Young, Fred Astaire, James Stewart, and others, and Gisele and Mr. She was born Gisèle Marie Louise Marguerite LaFlèche in Winnipeg, Manitoba, and studied violin and voice at The Royal Conservatory of Music in Toronto, Ontario. Balin had a gift for disciplined, delicate songcraft that helped rein in the wilder impulses of Kantner, 'a madman on stage' whose compositions could be difficult to translate in the studio.Gisèle MacKenzie (Janu– September 5, 2003) was a Canadian-American singer, actress, and commercial spokesperson, best known for her performances on the US television program Your Hit Parade. They developed a yin-and-yang dynamic that gave shape to their increasingly ambitious ideas. It was Kantner who first taught him how to roll a joint.

In 1965, when Balin recruited Kantner, a friend from the San Francisco folk scene, to form a new rock band, they were just 'crazy guys in the '60s, having fun,' Balin said. But from the start, co-founders Balin and Kantner were the twin engines who propelled Jefferson Airplane to stardom, writing or co-writing more than half of their songs from 1966 to 1970, including the protest anthem Volunteers. Jefferson Airplane was a collaborative entity, with singer Grace Slick, guitarist Jorma Kaukonen, bassist Jack Casady and drummer Spencer Dryden writing and contributing to songs like White Rabbit and Somebody to Love. In 1996, they were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Jefferson Airplane played Woodstock, Altamont and Monterey Pop they appeared on the covers of Life and Rolling Stone.

In many ways, Balin, who has lived in Carrollwood since 1999, knew Kantner better than anyone.įifty-one years ago, the two men co-founded Jefferson Airplane, the seminal psychedelic rock band that soundtracked American counterculture in the late '60s, thrusting concepts like drug use, free love and rebellion from the San Francisco shadows into the mainstream.

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