Melissa Etheridge

Melissa Etheridge is a Grammy and Academy Award-winning singer-songwriter whose four-decade career includes the albums Yes I Am and Melissa Etheridge, and the Oscar-winning song "I Need to Wake Up," written for An Inconvenient Truth.

A breast cancer survivor and longtime advocate for cancer patients and for medical cannabis and psychedelic research, she has spoken publicly about the death of her son Beckett from opioid addiction in 2020 and about the grief that followed. Her Broadway show My Window told the story of her life, including those losses.