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(AP) \u2014 Gretna Van Fleet didn\u2019t play music with Greta Van Fleet. But maybe she got the next best thing: The <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/1c25ef288a4e4bf59cdbf4ad56724345\" role=\"link\" class=\" js-entry-link cet-external-link\" data-vars-item-name=\"Grammy-winning rock band\" data-vars-item-type=\"text\" data-vars-unit-name=\"6a0e3f6be4b0ceb40d4950ea\" data-vars-unit-type=\"buzz_body\" data-vars-target-content-id=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/1c25ef288a4e4bf59cdbf4ad56724345\" data-vars-target-content-type=\"url\" data-vars-type=\"web_external_link\" data-vars-subunit-name=\"article_body\" data-vars-subunit-type=\"component\" data-vars-position-in-subunit=\"0\">Grammy-winning rock band<\/a> uses her name.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"primary-cli cli cli-text \">\n<p>The 95-year-old Michigan woman died Monday at a senior living center in Frankenmuth, <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cederbergfh.com\/obituary\/gretna-van-fleet-2026?fbclid=IwY2xjawR5XfNleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBzcnRjBmFwcF9pZBAyMjIwMzkxNzg4MjAwODkyAAEeZYOfY2yZZOgcj-hWCw5-w0BuiMe_AhIdV_c7_DKNiTe127Z3AodLnqE9CCM_aem_myaGJrleSHaZ1m1cjzPUCg\" role=\"link\" class=\" js-entry-link cet-external-link\" data-vars-item-name=\"according to her obituary,\" data-vars-item-type=\"text\" data-vars-unit-name=\"6a0e3f6be4b0ceb40d4950ea\" data-vars-unit-type=\"buzz_body\" data-vars-target-content-id=\"https:\/\/www.cederbergfh.com\/obituary\/gretna-van-fleet-2026?fbclid=IwY2xjawR5XfNleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBzcnRjBmFwcF9pZBAyMjIwMzkxNzg4MjAwODkyAAEeZYOfY2yZZOgcj-hWCw5-w0BuiMe_AhIdV_c7_DKNiTe127Z3AodLnqE9CCM_aem_myaGJrleSHaZ1m1cjzPUCg\" data-vars-target-content-type=\"url\" data-vars-type=\"web_external_link\" data-vars-subunit-name=\"article_body\" data-vars-subunit-type=\"component\" data-vars-position-in-subunit=\"1\">according to her obituary,<\/a> the same community where the band was formed in 2012 when Van Fleet was in her 80s.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"primary-cli cli cli-text \">\n<p>\u201cI think they checked out my background to make sure I wasn\u2019t on the Ten Most Wanted list or something, and they went ahead with it,\u201d Van Fleet jokingly told MLive.com in 2019, ahead of the band\u2019s appearance on \u201c<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.huffpost.com\/entertainment\/topic\/snl\">Saturday Night Live<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"primary-cli cli cli-text \">\n<p>\u201cBut later, when I met the boys, I said, \u2018That\u2019s OK.\u2019 But, no, they did not approach me to begin with,\u201d Van Fleet said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"primary-cli cli cli-text \">\n<p>Kyle Hauck, a drummer in the band\u2019s early days, has told interviewers that a name was needed in time for a local performance. He said he heard his grandfather talk about helping a friend, Gretna Van Fleet. Something clicked. The band dropped the \u2018n\u2019 in Gretna and Greta Van Fleet was born.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"primary-cli cli cli-text \">\n<p>The band won a Grammy in 2019 for best rock album, \u201cFrom The Fires,\u201d and had other nominations that year. Greta Van Fleet\u2019s \u201cStarcatcher\u201d was nominated for best album in 2024.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"primary-cli cli cli-text \">\n<p>Gretna Van Fleet\u2019s obituary describes her, too, as being \u201cmusically talented,\u201d playing a variety of instruments including saxophone, violin, tuba and piano.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"primary-cli cli cli-text \">\n<p>She said in the 2019 interview that her favorite song by the band was \u201cFlower Power.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"primary-cli cli cli-text \">\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s a couple others that I like, but that\u2019s not really my style,\u201d Van Fleet said of the music. \u201cIt\u2019s not my era that they\u2019re making popular come back.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"cli cli-related-articles js-cet-subunit cli-related-articles--single-article\"\/><\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.celebrity.land \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FRANKENMUTH, Mich. (AP) \u2014 Gretna Van Fleet didn\u2019t play music with Greta Van Fleet. But maybe she got the next best thing: The Grammy-winning rock band uses her name. The 95-year-old Michigan woman died Monday at a senior living center in Frankenmuth, according to her obituary, the same community where the band was formed in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2425596,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25174],"tags":[475519,475520,27396,400835,475518,21890,475521],"class_list":["post-2425595","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gossip","tag-frankenmuth","tag-frankenmuth-mich","tag-grammy","tag-greta-van-fleet","tag-gretna-van-fleet","tag-saturday-night-live","tag-van-fleet"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Michigan-Woman-Who-Inspired-Greta-Van-Fleet-Band-Name-Dies.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2425595","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2425595"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2425595\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2425597,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2425595\/revisions\/2425597"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2425596"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2425595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2425595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2425595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}