Alanis Nadine Morissette

Alanis Nadine Morissette (Ottawa, June 1, 1974) influenced by the sound of Tori Amos and Sinéad O'Connor, released from the rock in 1995 with the release of Jagged Little Pill, classic album that had the cooperation of Flea the Red Hot Chilli Peppers and Dave Navarro of Jane's Addiction. Songwriter confessional letters and visceral sound with oscillating between folk / pop and alternative rock, Alanis has become the spokesman of a youth who, in the late 90, not identified with the superficiality of dance music and not with aggressiveness of grunge. Morissette has a sound very similar to that of artists like Cranberries, Garbage and Fiona Apple. Tori Amos, Liz Phair, Barenaked Ladies, Garbage, Matchbox 20 and Alexi Murdoch already played together on tour with Alanis during his career. His first album after the adolescent stage, Jagged Little Pill was a tremendous success, almost all the tracks became hit: "You ought Know" - became his anthem - "Ironic," "You Learn", "Head Over Feet." Received six signs for the Grammy (for Best Rock Female Vocal, Best Performance, among others) and won three Video Music Awards on MTV, to the impressive mark of nearly 30 million copies sold. Jagged Little Pill is a disc of songs aggressive and heavy, where the singer opted for simple voice, guitar, bass, drums and lyrics autoanalíticas often pessimistic. After an extensive tour and talked, Alanis took holidays in India and then composed the album supposed Former Infatuation Junkie , Launched in 1998. The song "Thank U" was the highlight of the disc, produced more than the last, and exploring alternative rock songs with heavy as "Sympathetic Character", "Baba," "Can not Not" and "Joining You". It is considered the favorite album of fans. Also participated in 1999, the controversial film Dogma where he played the role of God. Lance still Jagged Little Pill Live, with scenes and excellent versions, a summary of his first tour film made from the various day-to-day banda, showing the raw side of living with a rock band. The following year recorded the MTV Unplugged-MTV in a special set of acoustic format. With this release, the singer came back on the list of most sold worldwide. A cover for the classic "King of Pain", from The Police, the track "uninvited", originally recorded in the track of the movie City of Angels, plus new versions of the biggest hits of his career, made of one of Alanis Morissette and more successful singers of all time. In this album, Alanis opts for a more complex range of sounds with percussion and strings, and their successes before heavy movements gain more melodic and delicate arrangements for guitar. Also launched the CD Under Rug Swept, with more mature compositions, which, however remember the feminist theme of his first album. The album has hits like "Hands Clean" and "Precious Illusions", and also contains the song "Utopia", released for free over the Internet in homage to the dead in the attacks of 11 September 2001. Dean De Leo of Stone Temple Pilots collaborated with Alanis on this album. Also launching later, the CD and DVD Feast on Scraps showing the album's tour earlier in the same style of your video Jagged Little Pill. The songs "Unprodigal Daughter," "Sister Blister", "Bent 4 U" and "Sorry To Myself" is the highlight of this EP / DVD. In 2004, Alanis launches the album So-Called Chaos, produced by itself: the less acclaimed album of his career regarding the fans. She says, again, faith, composing songs that summarize their efforts and after its maturity. But the disc is a collection of songs together to provide advice and save a few songs are: "8 Easy Steps", "doThis I Protest Too Much." "I really taking to explore both sides of an issue in some songs here," he confesses. "Each side interests me both as a person, and as author, or so I may be schizophrenic. Both cases may be true, of course. " On June 13, 2005 your most successful CD, Jagged Little Pill, completed 10 years of launch, and Alan takes the time to write commemorative Jagged Little Pill Acoustic, which combines 12 disk versions desplugadas and reflective of the album's most famous track music of singer. In the same year, Alanis Morissette recalls big hits of his career with the Collection The collection, which includes among the songs recorded before the cover of "Crazy", the singer Seal. The album also hit the stores in a special edition containing a DVD with a documentary about the singer. Also in 2005, Alanis composed the song "Wunderkind" for the soundtrack of the movie The Chronicles of Narnia, which gave an indication to the world of gold. "Flavors of Entanglement" launched in 2008 in collaboration with Guy Sigsworth Frou Frou's extinct, which produced for Imogen Heap and Björk, is an album of electronic rock, and different from the past in terms of sonority. Alanis following his confessional line, but this time, with beats and loops. Highlight for "Citizen Of The Planet", "Tapes" and "Versions Of Violence". In a deluxe edition of "Flavors", Alanis released b-sides precious as "Madness", "Orchid" among others. Alanis was on tour the U.S. opening the concerts of the band Matchbox 20 in the album release, and is in its own tour for North America. Alexi Murdoch opens the shows.