Music alley - Melissa Etheridge
Melissa Etheridge was born in 1961 as the daughter of a computer specialist and a mathematics teacher in Kansas.
She has been playing the guitar since the age of eight and writing songs. At the age of 13, she had her first appearance in front of an audience. In 1987, Melissa Etheridge signed her first recording contract with Island Records, after label founder Chris Blackwell had discovered her in a small club in Long Beach, California. In 1988, her first album "Melissa Etheridge" appeared, for whose sales she received multiple platinum: "one of the most amazing debut albums of the 80s" (All Music Guide). Melissa Etheridge lives openly lesbian, to which she confessed in 1993 publicly at the swearing-in ceremony of Bill Clinton. In 1997 and 1998 she was together with her longtime girlfriend Julie Cypher by sperm donation of David Crosby mother of two children, them Cypher was born. In 2000, the two separated and share custody since then. From 2003 to 2010, Etheridge lived with actress Tammy Lynn Michaels, with whom she also has two children (* October 17, 2006), in a registered partnership. [2] Since 2011 she has been in a relationship with the director and producer Linda Wallem and married since June 2014. [3] Etheridge is a well-known women's rights activist and LGBT supporter (LGBT (also GLBT, LGBTI, LSBTTIQ and other forms) is an abbreviation for Lesbians, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender coming from the English-speaking world, for lesbians, gays, bisexuals and transgender. It is an adaptation of the abbreviation LGB used since the mid-1980s as a substitute for the negatively connoted description of homosexual. The abbreviation LSBTTIQ sometimes used in Germany stands for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transsexual, transgender, intersex and queer people. There is also the shorter variant LGBTQ. It is a community of different topics whose common feature is not to conform to heteronormativity. It is about the sexual orientation towards the partner sex, about the own gender identity and about physical gender variations). She has repeatedly supported the Democratic Party of the United States. In October 2004, Etheridge announced that she had breast cancer. She successfully underwent multiple surgeries and chemotherapy, and in the spring of 2005, said she had survived the disease. In February 2005, she appeared at the Grammy Awards, where - as a result of chemotherapy - sang in a duet with Joss Stone as a tribute to Janis Joplin their title "Piece of My Heart". In 2007 she processed her cancer in the song "Message to Myself". In 2018 she was appointed to the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, which annually awards the Oscars.
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