You left out the true rock and roll women like Ann and Nancy Wilson of Heart, Suzi Quatro, who is the true Queen of Rock and Roll and Lita Ford. Madonna is not a rocker,nor is Aretha Franklin. If you're going to include all genres, then it should be a music's greatest women list. This is a rock and roll women list right? Like the RRHOF, the lines between rock,pop,etc are blurred when they clearly shouldn't be. In 2019, Etheridge released the album The Medicine Show. In the late 1990s, Etheridge and her partner Julie Cypher gave birth to two children, using iconic rocker David Crosby as the sperm donor. Its hit single was “Come to My Window,” a Billboard Top Ten single and Grammy Award winner.īut life has been a bumpy road for this artist in October 2004 she was diagnosed with breast cancer (luckily, she was treated successfully). Commonly known as her breakthrough album, Yes I Am was produced in 1993. (Etheridge eventually received an Honorary Doctor of Music degree at the school in May 2006.)īefore releasing her debut album, Melissa Etheridge, in 1988, she played the club circuit for years, highlighting her powerful, smoky voice. Melissa Etheridge is an alumnus of the prestigious Berklee College of Music in Boston, though she dropped out before graduating, choosing instead to launch her solo career.

Hoffs has also acted in many movies and TV shows. Hoffs, along with Mike Myers and Matthew Sweet, performed in Ming Tea, a fictitious British rock band appearing in the Austin Powers films. Hoffs has also recorded songs for the soundtracks in the movies Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery (1997) and Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1992). She launched a solo career in 1991, producing the album When You’re a Boy(1991) and its hit single “My Side of the Bed.” In fact, Hoffs has released many solo albums and EPs, the most recent of which Bright Lights (2021), a collection of some of Hoffs’ favorite cover songs. In addition to playing guitar, Hoffs also sings and writes songs. The Bangles first major album was Different Light (1986), from which sprang such hit singles such as “Manic Monday” (written for the Bangles by Prince), “If She Knew What She Wants” and “Walk Like an Egyptian.” This rocker’s major claim to fame seems to be her leadership of the Bangles, and all-girl band formed in 1982.

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