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In a star-studded event billed as 'Rock to Win', well-known artists are stepping up for gay rights this week at the Democratic National Committee Convention. The Human Rights Campaign, the largest gay rights group in the U.S., aims to use music to further equality for the gay, bisexual, lesbian and transgender community. In addition to Grammy-winning songwriter Melissa Etheridge, AIDS awareness advocate Thelma Houston, Canadian songwriter Rufus Wainwright, and the always c... MORE
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On Wednesday, Melissa Etheridge will receive the ASCAP Founders Award during the performing rights group's 24th annual Pop Music Awards at the Kodak Theatre in Los Angeles. Al Gore used Etheridge's "I Need to Wake Up" for his environmental documentary "An Inconvenient Truth". The end result was an Oscar(Best Original Song for a Motion Picture). Gore has also courted Etheridge for his "Live Earth, or Save Our Selves: A Campaign for a Climate in Crisis". The event is... MORE
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The Awakening will serve as Melissa Etheridge's return after a three year layoff. Between now and her last album Lucky in 2004, Etheridge has defeated breast cancer, which provides alot of inspiration and material for the new offering.
"When I was on chemotherapy, I listened to all my albums back to back," she told Billboard earlier this year. "It was therapy for me. I realized what I had been saying to myself in my music -- the things that I would put down that I w... MORE
"When I was on chemotherapy, I listened to all my albums back to back," she told Billboard earlier this year. "It was therapy for me. I realized what I had been saying to myself in my music -- the things that I would put down that I w... MORE
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I finally got "An Inconvenient Truth" for Christmas, and watched it over my winter break. This video is from the movie, and, although I'm not a very big fan of Melissa Etheridge, I think the song is great for the movie and the music video is very compelling.
Give it a watch, especially if you don't know much about global warming and the climate crisis. You just might learn something new. You might just change the way you think.
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with lyrics Everybody's got a hungerNo matter where they areEverybody clings to their own fearEverybody hides some scar Precious painEmpty and cold but it keeps me aliveI gave it my soul so that I could surviveKeeping me safe in these chainsPrecious pain Everybody's got a reasonTo abandon their planHow can I think of tomorrowWith my sorrow in hand Precious painEmpty and cold but it keeps me aliveI gave it my soul so that I could surviveKeeping me safe in these chai... MORE
