Alanis Morissette Biography

Fast Facts

• Twin brother Wade was born 12 minutes before her
• Began playing piano at age 6 and writing songs at age 9
• Joined You Can't Do That on Television (a popular kid's show on Nickelodeon) at age 11
• Appeared on Star Search in 1988, singing the Osmond Brothers hit "One Bad Apple
• " Opened for Vanilla Ice in 1991
• Released two dance-pop albums in Canada prior to her 1995 U
• S
• debut, Jagged Little Pill
• Sold in excess of 30 million copies of Jagged Little Pill, which remained in the Top 10 for 69 weeks
• Her breakthrough single "You Oughta Know" is said to have been inspired by a relationship/break-up with Full House actor Dave Coulier
• Became an ordained minister with the Universal Life Church in 2004
• Her 2007 YouTube parody of the Black Eyed Peas' "My Humps" was viewed more than 13
• 5 million times