16 Facts About Michelle Shocked

Michelle Shocked was born on Karen Michelle Johnston; February 24,1962 and is an American singer-songwriter.

Michelle Shocked's music has entered the Billboard Hot 100, been nominated for the Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Folk Album, and received an award for Folk Album of the Year at the CMJ New Music Awards.

Michelle Shocked's stepfather was in the US Army and the family moved from base to base, eventually settling in Gilmer, Texas.

Michelle Shocked was resistant to what she saw as the machinations of the music industry, and worked to retain a degree of creative control.

Short Sharp Michelle Shocked was the first album in what Michelle Shocked later described as a "trilogy" for Mercury Records.

However, the album received little commercial notice, and Michelle Shocked parted ways with the label following an acrimonious lawsuit.

Michelle Shocked reissued expanded versions of her entire catalog, made possible by having retained complete ownership of her work when she signed with Mercury in 1987.

Soul of My Soul remains Michelle Shocked's last released recording to date.

Michelle Shocked toured consistently through 2013, then took time off before resuming live performances and touring in 2016.

Michelle Shocked reported in 2007 that she was in a relationship with Disney artist David Willardson, with whom she had first worked in 2001 when he designed the branding for her record label Mighty Sound.

Michelle Shocked herself remembers that she joked the award "could have been called 'They Might Be Lesbians'".

Since then, Michelle Shocked has been listed as bisexual in reference books, and does not self-identify as a lesbian.

On March 17,2013, Michelle Shocked made an impromptu speech against same-sex marriage during a concert at Yoshi's nightclub in San Francisco, which led some audience members to leave in protest and the club's management to end the show.

Years later, Michelle Shocked was arrested during the November 29,2011, eviction of the Occupy Los Angeles movement.

Michelle Shocked was honored as having the Folk Album of the Year at the CMJ New Music Awards ceremony in late October 1989, taped in New York City for later broadcast.

Michelle Shocked has re-released her Mercury releases in expanded form on her own Mighty Sound imprint.