 In 1985, singer/songwriter Melissa Etheridge, then a struggling Los Angeles artist, sent her demo to Olivia, but was ultimately rejected.Etheridge went on to become one of the most popular female performers of the 1990s and arguably the most successful lesbian musician of all time.She saved the rejection letter, signed by "the women of Olivia," which was featured in "Intimate Portrait", the Lifetime Television documentary of her life.