She appeared on the children's television sketch comedy 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. In 1981, at the age of seven, she began 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), 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: older brother Chad is a business entrepreneur, and twin brother (12 minutes older) Wade Morissette is a musician. Morissette was born June 1, 1974, at Riverside Hospital in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada to teacher Georgia Mary Ann ( née Feuerstein) of Hungarian descent and high-school principal and French teacher Alan Richard Morissette.
2.6 2011–2016: Havoc and Bright Lights and Jagged Little Pill 20th anniversary.2.4 2001–2005: Under Rug Swept and So-Called Chaos.2.3 1998–2000: Supposed Former Infatuation Junkie and Alanis Unplugged.Morissette won 7 Grammy Awards, 14 Juno Awards, 1 Brit Award and has sold more than 75 million records worldwide and has been dubbed the "Queen of Alt-Rock Angst" by Rolling Stone. 1s on the weekly Billboard Alternative Songs chart among any female soloist, group leader or duo member. She also holds the record of the most No.
Her well-known singles " 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, including 10 top-40 hits in the UK, 3 top-10 in the US and Australia and 12 top-10 hits in her native Canada. Her latest album, Such Pretty Forks in the Road, was released in 2020. Morissette assumed creative control and producing duties for her subsequent studio albums, including Under Rug Swept (2002), So-Called Chaos (2004), Flavors of Entanglement (2008), and Havoc and Bright Lights (2012). Her highly anticipated, more experimental follow-up, electronic-infused album Supposed Former Infatuation Junkie, was released in 1998. The album was also listed in the 20 editions of Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Albums of All Time Guide. This earned her the Grammy Award for Album of the Year in 1996 and was made into a rock musical of the same name in 2017, which earned 15 Tony Award nominations including Best Musical. In 1995, she released Jagged Little Pill, an alt rock-oriented album with the elements of post-grunge, which sold more than 33 million copies globally and is her most critically acclaimed work to date. Afterward, as part of a recording deal, she moved to Holmby Hills, Los Angeles. Known for her emotive mezzo-soprano voice and confessional songwriting, Morissette began her career in Canada in the early 1990s with two highly successful 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, songwriter, and actress.