Melissa Etheridge

Known for ActingBorn 1961-05-29 (age 65)Leavenworth, Kansas, USA

Melissa Lou Etheridge (born May 29, 1961) is an American singer, songwriter, musician, and guitarist. Her eponymous debut album was released in 1988 and became an underground success. It peaked at No. 22 on the Billboard 200 and its lead single, "Bring Me Some Water", garnered Etheridge her first Grammy Award nomination for Best Rock Vocal Performance, Female in 1989. Her second album, Brave and Crazy, appeared that same year and earned Etheridge two more Grammy nominations. In 1992, Etheridge released her third album, Never Enough, and its lead single, "Ain't It Heavy", won Etheridge her first Grammy Award. In 1993, she released what would become her mainstream breakthrough album, Yes I Am. Its tracks "I'm the Only One", "If I Wanted To", and "Come to My Window" all reached the Top 40 in the United States, while the latter earned Etheridge her second Grammy Award. Yes I Am spent 138 weeks on the Billboard 200, peaking at No. 15, and earning a RIAA certification of 6× Platinum, her largest selling album to date. Her fifth album, Your Little Secret, was released in 1995 and peaked at No. 6 on the Billboard 200, her highest-charting album to date. Its tracks "Nowhere to Go" and "I Want to Come Over" both reached the Top 40 in the United States. Etheridge achieved further success with her albums Breakdown (1999), Skin (2001), and Lucky (2004). In October 2004, she was diagnosed with breast cancer, and underwent surgery and chemotherapy. At the 2005 Grammy Awards, she made a return to the stage, performing a tribute to Janis Joplin with Joss Stone. Stone began the performance with "Cry Baby" and Etheridge, bald from chemotherapy, joined her to perform the song "Piece of My Heart". Their performance was widely acclaimed, and India.Arie later wrote "I Am Not My Hair" about Etheridge. Later that year, Etheridge released her first compilation album, Greatest Hits: The Road Less Traveled. A great commercial success, it peaked at No. 14 on the Billboard 200, and went Gold almost immediately. Etheridge has released 16 studio albums to date, the most recent being One Way Out (2021). Etheridge is known for music with a mixture of "confessional lyrics, pop-based folk-rock, and raspy, smoky vocals". She has been a gay and lesbian rights activist since her public coming out in January 1993. Among her various accolades, Etheridge has received two Grammy Awards (from 15 nominations), and an Academy Award for Best Original Song for "I Need to Wake Up" from the film An Inconvenient Truth (2006). She received the Berklee College of Music Honorary Doctor of Music Degree in 2006. The following year, she was honored with the ASCAP Founders Award. In September 2011, she received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Description above from the Wikipedia article Melissa Etheridge, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.Read more

Movies & web series

Together in Pride: You Are Not Alone

CMT Music Awards

Sucré salé

Bryan Adams - Wembley Live 1996

VH1 Storytellers

Melissa Etheridge - A Little Bit Of Me - Live In L.A.

2022 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony

America: The Story of Us

E! True Hollywood Story

Melissa Etheridge - Lucky Live

CMT Crossroads

American Music Awards

The Advocate Celebrates 50 Years: A Long Road to Freedom

The Legend of 420

LOUDER: The Soundtrack of Change

Hacks

Frasier

For Our Children

Totally Gay!

Melissa Etheridge Live... and Alone

Ahead of the Curve

Saturday Night Special

Late Night with Conan O'Brien: 10th Anniversary Special

King of the Hill

An Inconvenient Truth

Arista Records' 25th Anniversary Celebration

MTV Unplugged

3 nach 9

Who Do You Think You Are?

Jackie's Back!

Last Party 2000

The Kelly Clarkson Show

The Daily Show

Late Show with David Letterman

The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

Melissa Etheridge: I'm Not Broken

Welcome Home, Roxy Carmichael

Where the Day Takes You

Marijuana: A Chronic History

After Stonewall

LIVE with Kelly and Mark

Anderson Cooper 360°

The Tonight Show with Jay Leno

Hogan Knows Best

Weeds

Wetten, dass..?

The Concert for New York City

The Sissy Duckling