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Alanis Nadine Morissette (born June 1, 1974) is a Canadian-American[1] singer-songwriter, record producer and occasional actress. She began her career as a child and recorded two dance-pop albums, Alanis and Now Is the Time, under MCA Records. Her international debut album, the rock-influenced Jagged Little Pill, sold thirty million copies, making it the best-selling debut album of all time by a female artist - though, technically, she had previously released two dance-pop albums in Canada.[2] Morissette took up producing duties for her subsequent albums including Supposed Former Infatuation Junkie, Under Rug Swept, and So-Called Chaos; this garnered weaker reviews and lower sales.
Biography
1974–1990: Early life
Alanis Morissette was born in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, to Alan and Georgia Morissette. Alanis had a twin brother Wade, and an older brother, Chad.
In 1986, Morissette entered her first acting role on the children's television show You Can't Do That on Television for five episodes. Using the money she saved from that role, she released an independent single "Fate Stay with Me" with the B-side, "Find the Right Man". She appeared onstage with the Orpheus Musical Theatre Society in 1985 and in 1988.[3] Morissette attended Glebe Collegiate Institute in Ottawa during her high school years.
At a New York City audition, Morissette landed a spot on Star Search, a popular American talent competition on which she used her stage name, Alanis Nadine. Morissette flew to Los Angeles to appear on the show, but she lost after one round.
1990– 1993: Alanis and Now Is the Time
In 1990, Morissette signed with MCA Records Canada and was an opening act on rapper Vanilla Ice's tour. Leslie Howe produced and released her full-length debut album, Alanis, in 1991. At the time, Morissette dropped her stage name and was credited simply as Alanis. The dance-pop album, which was only released in Canada, went double platinum, and its first single, "Too Hot", reached the top twenty on the Canadian singles chart. Subsequent singles included "Walk Away", "Feel Your Love" and "Plastic".
In 1992 Morissette was nominated for three Juno Awards: "Single of the Year", "Best Dance Recording" (for "Too Hot" , and "Most Promising Vocalist (Female)", the latter of which she won. In the same year she released Now Is the Time, her second album, which attempted to move away from her debut's dance-pop sound and featured the top forty single "An Emotion Away". The album sold less than half the number of copies that her debut album did, and, with her two-album deal with MCA Canada complete, she was without a major label co1993–1995: Move to Los Angeles
In 1993, Morissette moved from Ottawa to Toronto. Living alone for the first time in her life, she met with a bevy of songwriters, but the results frustrated her.[citation needed] A visit to Nashville a few months later also proved fruitless. Morissette began making trips to Los Angeles and working with as many musicians as possible, in the hopes of meeting a collaborator. During this time, she met producer and songwriter Glen Ballard.
According to Ballard,[citation needed] the connection was "instant" and within thirty minutes of meeting each other, they had begun experimenting with different sounds in Ballard's home studio. Ballard and Morissette penned their first song together, called "The Bottom Line". The turning point in their sessions was the song "Perfect", written and recorded in twenty minutes. Morissette improvised the lyrics on the spot, while Ballard played guitar. The version of the song that appeared on Jagged Little Pill, Morissette's next album, was the only take the pair recorded. Ballard and Morissette recorded the songs on Jagged Little Pill literally as they wrote the tunes. According to Morissette, Ballard was the first collaborator who encouraged her to express her emotions. By the spring of 1995, Morissette had penned a deal with Maverick Records.
She later revealed[citation needed] that during her stay in L.A., a man with a gun confronted and robbed her on a deserted street, although the thief did not take the writing and brainstorming notes in her purse…the scribbling that soon made up Jagged Little Pill. After that happening, Morissette developed an intense and general angst, which she revealed during random daily panic attacks, even on planes. She checked herself into a hospital and attended psychotherapy sessions, but it did not improve her emotional status. As Morissette later revealed in interviews, she focused all her inner problems on the soul-baring lyrics of the album for her own health
2006–present
In April MTV.com reported that Morissette would reprise her role in The Exonerated in London from May 23 through the May 28.[11] In July 2006 People magazine reported that Morissette split from fiancé Ryan Reynolds, but neither party confirmed this report.[12] Later that month, a source said that they were indeed together,[13] and Contact Music reported that their split was a "rumor".[14] Morissette and Reynolds were pictured holding hands in Los Angeles,[15] sinking rumors about their supposed break-up.
Rolling Stone reported in January 2006 that Morissette was in between "intense" writing sessions for her upcoming 2007 studio album, which was to be co-produced by Mike Elizondo, and that she was going to spend 2006 working on a memoir. She said of her book, "it will be all the wisdom I've accrued in the thirty-one years of my life (...) A lot about relationships, fame, travel, body-image issues, spirit — with a lot of self-deprecating humor peppered throughout, 'cause I just can't help it."[16] More recently, she has been delving back into acting, guest starring in an episode of Lifetime's Lovespring International and three episodes of FX's Nip/Tuck, playing a lesbian. In October 2006 Morissette said in an interview with TV Guide that she was going to start writing new material over the next few weeks, saying "I usually fill two journals for each record and at the present, I have seven journals full. I have a lot within me ready to burst out."[17]
In February 2007 Morissette and Ryan Reynolds mutually decided to end their engagemen
Albums
Alanis (Canada-only, 1991)
Now Is the Time (Canada-only, 1992)
Jagged Little Pill (1995)
Supposed Former Infatuation Junkie (1998)
Alanis Unplugged (1999)
Under Rug Swept (2002)
Feast on Scraps (CD/DVD, 2002)
So-Called Chaos (2004)
Jagged Little Pill Acoustic (2005)
Alanis Morissette: The Collection (2005)
Link`uri: Official Website
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