This iconic song was picked to represent Arizona at 2024 DNC. Here's why

The Democratic National Convention featured a musical roll call for each state on Tuesday night.

While Arizona has ties to many famous musicians (think Alice Cooper, Linda Rondstadt and Dierks Bentley), the DJ Cassidy, the convention's "musical maestro," selected an iconic song to represent the Grand Canyon State.

"Now, we're going to pass the mic from state to state so that all our voices are heard all around the nation," Cassidy said at the convention.

Here's what to know about the song and artist selected to represent Arizona during the roll call at the 2024 Democratic National Convention.

What song represented Arizona at DNC 2024?

Stevie Nicks' "Edge of Seventeen" was selected for Arizona's moment during the roll call on Tuesday.

Stevie Nicks' ties to Arizona

Nicks was born at Good Samaritan Hospital in Phoenix to Jess and Barbara Nicks on May 26, 1948.

She never went to school here, though. Her father, an executive at the Armour-Dial Greyhound Corp., was always on the move, resulting in her having spent her childhood growing up in Phoenix, Albuquerque, El Paso, Salt Lake City, Los Angeles and San Francisco.

In 1981, Nick built a home near her parents in Paradise Valley, sharing the house with her brother Chris; his wife, Lori; and their daughter, Jessica, and writing many songs while living there.

She announced in mid-2007 that the home would be put up for sale as part of an attempt to downsize. She'd only spent about two weeks there in 2006. The house sold for $3 million.

Stevie Nicks on Phoenix: 'I'm so sorry I don't live here anymore'

When Fleetwood Mac played in Phoenix in 2019, Nicks reminded fans at Talking Stick Resort Arena, "I was born here" and went on to talk about her deep connection to the Valley before dedicating "Landslide" and eventually the whole night to her brother.

"More than Oakland or San Jose, this actually is my home," she said. "I was born here in 1948. So I lived here and I loved it and I had a house here for a long, long time and my parents, and I wrote a lot of songs here. … So I would like to dedicate this song to someone who no matter what our problems are or how much we fight or what comes between us, he always has my back, my brother, Christopher Nicks."

She referred to Phoenix as "my hometown" two years earlier on that same stage on the opening night of her most recent solo tour.

The time before that, on a Fleetwood Mac tour in 2014, she said, "I actually lived here for 20 years" before admitting that she wished she hadn't sold her house. "I miss coming home to write and being near Camelback Mountain and all of you."

After acknowledging her friends and family in attendance, Nicks said, "A lot of our songs were written here. It's good to be home." And the last thing she said before leaving the stage was, "Phoenix, I'm so sorry I don't live here anymore."

This article originally appeared on Arizona Republic: This was Arizona's song at the 2024 DNC's roll call