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Alanis Morissette With a new album out in June and her former fiance now grazing in greener pastures, Alanis Morissette is back in the news.

Alanis Morissette

Alanis Morissette

Alanis Morissette

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Alanis Morissette

Alanis Morissette wasted little time developing her skills as a performer, taking up the piano at the age of 6 and writing her own songs by the time she was 9. Her first venture into the spotlight, however, was as an actress on the popular Canadian children's TV show You Can't Do That on Television at the age of 10; the recognition (and income) earned as a result made possible her independently-released single Fate Stay With Me shortly afterwards. A deal with MCA Canada was secured within a couple of years, and her dance-oriented full-length debut Alanis hit the Canadian pop music market in 1991 like a 2-ton rhino in spandex. The 1992 follow-up release, Now is the Time, took a somewhat more thoughtful musical approach, and consequently had a somewhat more restrained commercial impact (although it still managed to attain platinum status). After graduating from high school, Morissette relocated to Toronto in a attempt to revive an already-fading music career, but with little positive result.

By 1994 the now-19-year-old singer made a move to Los Angeles, where she began collaborating with producer/songwriter Glen Ballard. A demo tape concocted by the two eventually found its way into the dark recesses of Madonna's Maverick record label, and by the following June Morissette's first proper venture into the U.S. record industry, Jagged Little Pill, was on the shelves. A significant departure from the pre-programmed dance music of her first two efforts, Pill found the singer backed by a rock band and adopting a more personal approach to her lyrics. The album would earn her a Grammy for Album of the Year (amongst others), and become the largest-selling album by a female artist in the world. An extended hiatus took place after the release, during which Morissette spent time in India to recover from the pressures of her enormous success.Her return to activity in 1998 took place first in the form of a song contributed to the soundtrack of City of Angels, a Hollywood remake of the Wim Wenders film Wings of Desire (1987), followed by a turn portraying God in the Kevin Smith project Dogma (1999). Supposed Former Infatuation Junkie, her second release, finally surfaced at the end of 1998; unavoidably, it failed to repeat the monumental impact of its predecessor -- particularly since it didn't repeat that album's stylistic content. It was well-received nonetheless, and featured several popular singles, including Thank U and So Pure. The next year Morissette released an Unplugged collection which reworked many of Junkie's non-single tracks, as well as a few of the hit songs from Pill.

In 2000 Alanis Morissette extended her acting career into live theater by tackling The Vagina Monologues, and dipped back into televison with an appearance on the HBO series Sex and the City. Her third studio album, Under Rug Swept, did not materialize until early 2002, followed later in the year by the CD/DVD collection Feast on Scraps. Throughout the intervening year she devoted her time to a number of charity events, including a John Lennon tribute concert in New York City to raise funds for gun control, a Music Without Borders concert in Toronto to aid Afghani refugees, and a performance at the Museum of Tolerance in Los Angeles. In November of 2001 she was presented with a "Global Tolerance Award" by the Friends of the United Nations. A fourth album, So-Called Chaos, hit the presses in 2004. Alanis Nadine Morissette is a Canadian-American singer-songwriter, guitarist, record producer, and actress. She has won 16 Juno Awards and seven Grammy Awards and has been nominated for two Golden Globe Award as well as preliminary Academy Award nominee.

Morissette began her career in Canada, and as a teenager recorded two dance-pop albums, Alanis and Now Is the Time, under MCA Records Canada. Her worldwide debut album was the rock-influenced Jagged Little Pill, released in 1995, which remains the best-selling debut album by a female artist in the U.S., and the highest selling debut album worldwide, selling more than 30 million units globally. Her following album, Supposed Former Infatuation Junkie, was released in 1998 and was a success as well. Morissette took up producing duties for her subsequent albums, which include Under Rug Swept, So-Called Chaosand Flavors of Entanglement. Morissette has sold more than 40 million albums worldwide

In February 2005, Morissette became a naturalized citizen of the United States while maintaining her Canadian citizenship.

Alanis Nadine Morissette (born June 1, 1974) is a seven time Grammy Award-winning Canadian singer-songwriter and occasional actress. She is the best-selling female rock artist of all time.

Her international debut album Jagged Little Pill (1995) became one of the most successful albums of all time with total worldwide sales estimated at thirty million copies. Five more studio albums followed – Supposed Former Infatuation Junkie (1998), Under Rug Swept (2002), Feast on Scraps (2002), So-Called Chaos (2004), and Flavors of Entanglement (2008)

Alanis Morissette