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Melissa Etheridge

In 1989, Melissa Etheridge released her sophomore bow Brave and Crazy . In the subsequent decades, she’s certainly lived up to the first half of that album title, with the latter part of it reserved for her extreme NFL fandom.

Etheridge’s life journey has found her coming out as gay in the early ‘90s, broken relationships and a bout with breast cancer while forging a commercially successful and critically acclaimed career. The past five years have been creatively fruitful, and this rollercoaster ride of a life needed a global pandemic to have the Kansas native hit the pause button and assess the whole megillah.

Part of that artistic wave included a docu-series (last year’s “Melissa Etheridge: I’m Not Broken”) and a 2022 Broadway one-woman show (

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