Melissa Etheridge (Ellen)

Melissa Etheridge, born May 29, 1961, is an American rock singer-songwriter and musician. At the 20th Annual Juno Awards in 1990, she won International Entertainer of the Year. She has won the Grammy Award for Best Female Rock Vocal Performance twice in her career, for the songs "Ain't It Heavy" in 1992, and "Come to My Window" in 1994 In 1996 she was awarded ASCAP's Songwriter of the Year Award. In 2001, she won the Gibson Guitar Award for Best Rock Guitarist: Female. In 2006, at the 17th GLAAD Media Awards, she was awarded as Outstanding Music Artist for Greatest Hits: The Road Less Traveled. On February 25, 2007, she received the Academy Award for Best Original Song for "I Need to Wake Up", the theme song to the Al Gore-moderated, Academy Award winning documentary An Inconvenient Truth. The award was presented by Queen Latifah and John Travolta. On February 18, 2009, she was named the "Celebrity Marshall" for Boston's 2009 Pride Parade, by the Boston Pride Committee.

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