Dion DiMucci

In the 1980s and 1990s, he returned to secular pop music. In October 2004 she was diagnosed with breast cancer, but is expected to make a full recovery. In the late 1970s, Dion recorded albums in the Contemporary Christian Music vein. Though limited in acting experience it has been announced that a sitcom is in production to star Etheridge as a lesbian living with her heterosexual male best friend (together raising a third person's child.) Critics have predicted that it will be "like Will & Grace except cancelled.". His Born To Be With You album, produced by Phil Spector and released in 1973, was a commercial disaster, but has been cited by Jason Pierce of Spiritualized as a major influence on Spiritualized's work. After splitting from Cypher she went on in 2003 to marry actress Tammy Lynn Michaels. He continued to record protest songs into the 1970s. She had a long-term partnership with Julie Cypher, which whom she had two children via a sperm donor, David Crosby.

Kennedy. Etheridge is also famous as a gay rights activist, having publicly come out as a lesbian during President Bill Clinton's first inauguration in January 1993. After getting clean from drug use (he has remained clean ever since except for a brief period in the mid-1970s) he switched to protest songs in the late 1960s; his best-known song as a soloist, "Abraham, Martin, and John", was a response to the 1968 assassinations of Martin Luther King and Robert F. She has won the Grammy award for Best Female Rock Vocal Performance twice in her career, for the song "Ain't It Heavy" in 1992 and "Come to My Window", in 1994. During the mid-1960s, he struggled with his addictions and recorded songs in a folk-rock vein. Two others went platinum and another gold. He was a singer and songwriter whose career began in popular music in the 50s with his group known as Dion & the Belmonts.He went solo in the early 1960s and continued to have hits with songs like "Runaround Sue", "The Wanderer" and "Ruby Baby" until 1964, when changing public tastes and heroin addiction caused him to enter a commercial decline. Three of them have gone multi-platinum: Melissa Etheridge (1988), Yes I Am (1993) and Your Little Secret (1996).

Dion DiMucci was born July 18, 1939 in the Bronx, New York, United States. Etheridge has produced eight albums since signing her first major recording contract in 1987. She was born in Leavenworth, Kansas. Melissa Lou Etheridge (born May 29, 1961) is an American rock musician. CMT.com: Melissa Etheridge: Biography (http://www.cmt.com/artists/az/melissa_etheridge/bio.jhtml).

Lucky (2004). Skin (2001). Breakdown (1999). Your Little Secret (1995).

Yes I Am (1993). Never Enough (1992). Brave and Crazy (1989). Melissa Etheridge (1988).