The power of song
Melissa Etheridge brings music to a women’s prison in new docu-series RICH LOPEZ | Staff writer rich@dallasvoice.com In the new docuseries, Melissa Etheridge: I’m Not Broken, director Brian Morrow weaves an inspirational story of healing through the music of lesbian singer Melissa Etheridge with directing partner Amy Scott.
The two-part series leads up to a concert Etheridge performs at the Topeka Correctional Facility, a women’s prison. In the meantime, five female inmates write letters to the singer which she finds as inspiration for the title song.
Throughout the series, Morrow and Scott explore a number of themes that come with the women serving time such as substance abuse, trauma and grief and the trials of female incarceration, which has risen 700 percent since 1980.
But for a moment, all that is forgotten when Etheridge performs a full-on concert for the inmates. Melissa Etheridge: I’m Not Broken premieres Tuesday, July 9, exclusively on Paramount+.
