Melissa Etheridge is an American rock singer-songwriter, guitarist, and activist. She began her music career at the age of eight and got her music career breakthrough when she was hired as a songwriter for A&M Records. Her various notable works include An Inconvenient Truth, The Devil's Own, Money Train and The Concert for New York City. Etheridge won an Academy Award in Best Achievement in Music Written for Motion Pictures, Original Song category for “An Inconvenient Truth” in 2007.