Alanis Nadine Morissette is a Canadian-American singer, songwriter, record producer, and actress. Known for her emotive mezzo-soprano voice, she began her career in Canada in the early 1990s with two mildly successful dance-pop albums. In 1995, she released Jagged Little Pill, a more rock-oriented album which sold more than 33 million copies globally and is her most critically acclaimed work to date.
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Alanis Nadine Morissette is a Canadian-American singer, songwriter, record producer, and actress. Known for her emotive mezzo-soprano voice, she began her career in Canada in the early 1990s with two mildly successful dance-pop albums. In 1995, she released Jagged Little Pill, a more rock-oriented album which sold more than 33 million copies globally and is her most critically acclaimed work to date. Her ninth album, Such Pretty Forks in the Road, was released in 2020. Her popularity, style of music and appearance, particularly that of her hair, led her to become known as the Debbie Gibson of Canada; comparisons to Tiffany were also common. Her parents were teachers in a military school and due to their work often had to move. Between the ages of three and six she lived with her parents in Lahr, Germany. When she was six years old, she returned to Ottawa and started to play the piano. She appeared on the children’s television show You Can’t Do That on Television for five episodes when she was in junior high school. She attended Holy Family Catholic School for elementary school and Immaculata High School for Grades 7 and 8 before completing the rest of her high school at Glebe Collegiate Institute. She has two brothers: older brother Chad is a business entrepreneur, and twin brother Wade is a musician. Her father is of French and Irish descent and her mother has Hungarian ancestry.
In 1993, she was left without a major label contract after leaving MCA Records Canada without a two-album deal with MCA Canada. In 1994, she signed to MCA Music Publishing. Her first album, Alanis, went platinum, and its first single, \”Too Hot\”, reached the top 20 on the RPM singles chart. Her second album, Now Is the Time, was a ballad-driven record that featured less glitzy production than Alanis and contained more thoughtful lyrics. As with Alanis, Now Is The Time was only released in Canada and produced three top 40 singles. Her third album, The Never a Waste of Time, sold only a little more than half the copies of the first album since it was released. In 1998, she moved to Holmby Hills, Los Angeles, as part of a recording deal, and released Supposed Former Infatuation Junkie. She assumed creative control and producing duties for her subsequent studio albums, including Under Rug Swept, So-Called Chaos, Flavors of Entanglement, and Havoc and Bright Lights. In 2017, a rock musical of the same name in 2017, which earned 15 Tony Award nominations including Best Musical, was made into a Tony Award nominated Best Musical. She was born June 1, 1974 at Riverside Hospital of Ottawa in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada to teacher Georgia Mary Ann and high-school principal and French teacher Alan Richard Morissettes. She is the daughter of a French father and a Hungarian mother.
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