Posted
May 29, 2015
Today
we celebrate a talented rock singer-songwriter, Melissa Etheridge.
Born on this date in 1961, in Kansas, her first album was an
underground hit but made it all the way to #22 on the Billboard 200.
She earned her first Grammy Award nomination for the lead single of
that album – but it took her another half decade before she won her
first Grammy award and had a mainstream breakthrough hit.
She
has now earned 2 Grammys and 15 nominations! She has also won an
Academy Award for Best Original Song and has received a star on the
Hollywood Walk of Fame.
Etheridge
is famous for two other things, aside from her music:
1. She is a breast
cancer survivor, and she was brave enough to perform a tribute to
Janis Joplin even though she was bald from chemotherapy! Another song
writer praised her courage with a song called “I Am Not My Hair.”
2. Also, Etheridge is also an activist for LGBT rights.
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