Melissa Etheridge, 63, shares the heartwarming reason she performs in prisons...
and it has to do with late singer Johnny Cash Have YOU got a story? Email tips@dailymail.com By Valeria Garcia For Dailymail.Com Published: 16:37 EDT, 9 July 2024 | Updated: 16:38 EDT, 9 July 2024 e-mail 1 View comments Melissa Etheridge wants to make a 'big impact' like her country idol Johnny Cash.
The Breathe hitmaker, 63 — who we last saw rocking the red carpet — told People that she was inspired by the Ring Of Fire singer to give back to the community by preforming in prisons, like he did in the 1970s. 'No one in Kansas City saw him. I thought, "Wow, prisons must be a place of fine entertainment.
" And this is a goal. I would like to be that someday,' she recalled from her childhood. Since, the singer has preformed at correctional facilities near her hometown of Leavenworth and most recently at Topeka Correctional Facility, which is shown in her latest docuseries, Melissa Etheridge: I’m Not Broken.
'I wasn’t afraid of prisons or of what was going on in there,' she noted. 'And so I always knew that I wanted to get back and do that sort of Johnny Cash thing, the performance for people that really need it, who probably haven’t had entertainment in months, years, decades, and just how healing that can be,' she said. Melissa Etheridge was inspired by Johnny Cash to give back to the community by performing in prisons, like he did in the early 1970s; seen on her docuseries I'm Not Broken T.