subject: Alanis Morissette: Talented Artist Of Great Voice [print this page] Alanis Morissette was born June 1, 1974 in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. She is the daughter of Alan and Georgia Morissette Mary-Ann Feuerstein (German surname). His father is Franco-Ontarian and his Hungarian mother. She has an older brother, Chad, and a twin brother Wade. From 1977 to 1980, the family lived in Lahr (Black Forest, Germany).
At 9 years old, Morissette wrote her first song. His parents encouraged them to pursue an artistic career and auditioning for TV shows. The money she touches to the animation of a television show for children (You Can not Do That on Television) allows him to release a CD containing 2 tracks Fate Stay With Me and Find The Right Man while is only 11 years. She also plays on the stage with a theater: the Orpheus Musical Theatre Society.
In New York, Alanis wins the right to participate in Star Search, an American TV talent competition of the song. Alanis Nadine as she uses the stage name. She moved to Los Angeles to participate in the televised competition, but lost the first round.
In 1990, Morissette signed with the record label MCA Records Canada and released his first album, Alanis, in 1991 with producer Leslie Howe. She then drops her stage name and was credited simply as Alanis. This album dance / pop only distributed in Canada, was double platinum, and its first single, Too Hot, reached the Top 10 charts in Canada. Three other singles were then extracted from the album: Feel Your Love, Walk Away and Plastic.
In 1992, the singer is nominated for three Juno Awards (the awards are given to Canadian artists in music uvrant): Song of the Year, Best Female Artist and Best Female Hope she wins. The same year, she released Now Is the Time. The style of this new album moves away from previous (dance / pop) and features the single "An Emotion Away. However, the album sold less than twice the previous one. His contract with MCA Records Canada involving only two albums, she finds herself without record label.In 1993, Alanis leaves his hometown of Ottawa and moved to Toronto. She meets a band of songwriters, but the results are not satisfactory. She did not find what she seeks a stay in Nashville after a few months later.
Alanis began to make trips to Los Angeles and work with as many musicians as possible, in hopes of meeting a collaborator. There she met producer and songwriter Glen Ballard.According to Glen Ballard, the lightning flash and music was in 30 minutes they had begun experimenting with different sounds in the studio home of Glen Ballard. The first result of their encounter is a song called The Bottom Line.The decisive moment of this collaboration is the song Perfect, which was written and recorded in 20 minutes. Alanis improvised lyrics while Glen Ballard played guitar. The version of the song that appears on the album Jagged Little Pill is the result of the single socket in his studio.
Alanis and her producer / collaborator Glen Ballard recorded the songs from the album Jagged Little Pill at the same time they wrote and composed the title. According to the singer, Glen Ballard was the first collaborator who encouraged him to express his emotions. In spring 1995, Alanis sign a contract with the label founded by Madonna, Maverick Records.
In 1995, at the age of 21, Alanis released her first international album, Jagged Little Pill. Hoped sales of the album were low because the director and future friend of Alan, Scott Welsh would later admit he had not expected that the album does not exceed 250,000 copies. The disc begins at 118th Billboard 200 (Top 200 best selling albums in the U.S.).Things change quickly when in Los Angeles, the DJ of a popular radio station for the song creaks You Oughta Know and begins to play repeatedly. The song that immediately commands the attention of listeners and video between broadcast on MTV.
While You Oughta Know is a hit, the album Jagged Little Pill rises to the top of the charts. After Hand in My Pocket, Ironic is the third single became the biggest success of Alanis (critics have noted that many of the situations described by the singer were not actually ironic.) You Learn Head Over Feet, and respectively the fourth and fifth single, place Jagged Little Pill in the Billboard Top 20 for over a year. The album continues to sell, reached 16 million copies in the United States and has over 30 million copies worldwide, making Jagged Little Pill's first album of an artist's best-selling worldwide .
Alanis has been accused of having collaborated with the producer and creator of the supposed stars Glen Ballard, though it was the author of all lyrics and much of the music album (in Moreover, such collaboration was not uncommon for many solo artists at the time).
The album was nominated for six Grammy Awards (Victoires de la Musique the U.S.). At the ceremony, in 1996, she sang You Oughta Know. During the evening, she won the title of Best Female Artist, Best Rock Song, Best Rock Album and Best Album.
