![]() She attended Holy Family Catholic School for elementary school and Immaculata High School for Grades 7 and 8 before graduating from high school at Glebe Collegiate Institute. In 1981, at the age of seven, she began taking dance lessons. When she was six years old, she returned to Ottawa and started to play the piano. Between the ages of three and six she lived with her parents in Lahr ( Black Forest), West Germany. Her parents were teachers in a military school and due to their work often had to move. Her father is of French and Irish descent, whereas her mother has Hungarian and Jewish ancestry. She has two brothers: her older brother Chad is a business entrepreneur, and her twin brother (12 minutes older) Wade Morissette is a musician. ![]() Morissette was born on June 1, 1974, at Riverside Hospital in Ottawa, Ontario, to teacher Georgia Mary Ann ( née Feuerstein) and high-school principal and French teacher Alan Richard Morissette. With seven Grammy Awards, fourteen Juno Awards, one Brit Award, two Golden Globe nominations, and more than 75 million records sold worldwide, Morissette is often referred to as the "Queen of Alt-Rock Angst" by Rolling Stone. She is ranked number 53 on VH1's 1999 "100 Greatest Women of Rock and Roll". 1s on the weekly Billboard Alternative Songs chart among female soloists, group leaders, or duo members. Morissette also holds the record for the most No. She boasts ten top-40 songs in the UK, three top-10 hits in the US and Australia, and twelve top-10 tracks in her native Canada. Morissette's singles, including " You Oughta Know", " Hand in My Pocket", " Ironic", " You Learn", " Head Over Feet", " Uninvited", " Thank U", and " Hands Clean", reached top 40 in the major charts around the world. Her latest album, The Storm Before the Calm, featuring ambient music, was released in 2022. Taking creative control and production duties, Morissette continued her career with subsequent studio albums, including Under Rug Swept (2002), So-Called Chaos (2004), Flavors of Entanglement (2008), Havoc and Bright Lights (2012), and Such Pretty Forks in the Road (2020). Morissette followed up with a a highly anticipated, more experimental, electronic-infused album titled Supposed Former Infatuation Junkie, which was released in 1998. The lead single, "You Oughta Know", was also included at #103 in their " 500 Greatest Songs of All Time". Additionally, the album was listed in Rolling Stone's 20 editions of the "5 00 Greatest Albums of All Time" guide. ![]() The musical earned fifteen Tony Award nominations, including Best Musical. ![]() It earned her the Grammy Award for Album of the Year in 1996 and was adapted into a rock musical of the same name in 2017. This album sold more than 33 million copies globally, propelling her to become a cultural phenomenon. In 1995, she released Jagged Little Pill, an alternative rock-oriented album with elements of post-grunge. Morissette began her career in Canada in the early 1990s with two dance-pop albums. Alanis Nadine Morissette ( / ə ˈ l ɑː n ɪ s ˌ m ɒr ɪ ˈ s ɛ t/ ə- LAH-niss MORR-ih- SET born June 1, 1974) is a Canadian-American singer and songwriter known for her emotive mezzo-soprano voice and confessional songwriting. ![]()
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