Melissa Etheridge is the singer of one of my favorite songs, “You Can Sleep While I Drive”. There is just something about how the song feels and speaks to me.
Melissa, from Topeka, Kansas has enjoyed a success filled career combined with personal tragedy. She has also found time to inspire many over the years. The latest example of this is her new album, available today called “Melissa Etheridge: I’m Not Broken” This album is filled with songs she wrote that were inspired by letter written and sent to her by the women at the Topeka Correctional Facility.
The album “tells an inspiring story of healing and transcendence through the power of music when five female residents from the Topeka Correctional Facility, a women’s prison in Kansas, write letters to Etheridge that she uses as inspiration to create and perform an original song for them. Having recently lost her son to opioids, Etheridge works to understand and interrupt the cycle of addiction while connecting with these women who, so often, are forgotten by society.”
The album release today is accompanied by a 2-part docuseries that starts streaming on Paramount+ Tuesday July 9th
MELISSA ETHERIDGE: I’M NOT BROKEN is directed by Brian Morrow and Amy Scott, and produced by Jonathan Lynch for Shark Pig Studios. Executive producers include Kathy Rivkin Daum and William Kennedy for BMG Films, Deb Klein for Primary Wave Music, Bruce Gillmer and Michael Maniaci for MTV Entertainment Studios and Melissa Etheridge.
