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Michelle Shocked  Michelle Shocked is a U.S. singer-songwriter
whose music and performances seem influenced by her Texas roots,
her political activism, and a self-assured style that her first
major label producer likened to troubadors such as Joni
Mitchell, Spider John Koerner, and Dave Van Ronk.   She was born
Karen Michelle Johnston on February 24, 1962, in Dallas, Texas,
the daughter of a carpenter and a woman who would end up
committing her to a psychiatric hospital twenty-something years
later. She graduated from high school in Gilmer, Texas and
received her bachelor's degree in the Oral Interpretation of
Poetry from the University of Texas in Austin. She was raised in
a strict Mormon household and worked her way through college to
pay for tuition.  Michelle's stage name dates back to the name
she gave when arrested in 1984 at a protest for fair housing
during the Democratic National Convention in San Francisco,
California. Her nickname was 'Ch