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To be completely stripped bare of any image power or my hair. To step onstage and get the response that I got blew any problems I had about self-image out the door.

Melissa Etheridge

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Melissa Etheridge
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: May 29
Composer
Guitarist
Musician
Recording Artist
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Singer-Songwriter
Leavenworth
Kansas
Melissa Lou Etheridge
Doors
Blew
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Bare
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Completely
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