Melissa Lou Etheridge 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.
Melissa Etheridge ex-husband
Melissa Etheridge was married to Julie Cypher.
Melissa Etheridge wife/partner
In 2014, the singer, 53, wed her “true love” and fiancee of nearly a year, Linda Wallem, at the San Ysidro Ranch in Montecito, Calif.
Melissa Etheridge children
Melissa has three children namely: Beckett Cypher, Bailey Jean Cypher, Miller Steven Etheridge, Johnnie Rose Etheridge.
Melissa Etheridge parents
Etheridge was born in Leavenworth, Kansas, the younger of two daughters of Elizabeth (Williamson), a computer consultant, and John Etheridge, an American Constitution teacher at her alma mater, Leavenworth High School. John Etheridge died in August 1991.
Melissa Etheridge siblings
Melissa is the younger daughter of her parents, Her elderly sister’s name is not in public yet.
