Melissa Lou Etheridge is an American singer-songwriter-guitarist who was born on May 29, 1961. Her self-titled debut album’s prominence on the independent music scene began with its 1988 release.
For Best Rock Vocal Performance, Female, Etheridge received her first Grammy Award nomination in 1989, while the album’s lead single, “Bring Me Some Water,” peaked at No. 22 on the Billboard 200.
Did Melissa Etheridge have a double mastectomy?
Despite having a BRCA gene mutation and a breast cancer diagnosis in 2004, Etheridge said she opted against having a double mastectomy. It is unclear why she believes that her choice was any more courageous than Jolie’s.
Melissa Etheridge, a breast cancer survivor, disagrees with Angelina Jolie’s recent choice to have a prophylactic double mastectomy after learning she carried the BRCA gene mutation that frequently causes the disease.
The singer admits that she shares Jolie’s DNA mutation in a recent interview with Washington, D.C.-based LGBT weekly the Washington Blade, but says Jolie’s choice is “not something I could believe in for myself.”
