Alanis
Morissette is a Canadian-American 7-time Grammy Award-winning singer-songwriter,
and actress. Her first international album, Jagged Little Pill sold 30
million copies, making it the best-selling debut album by a female artist, ever.
As a child she had previously recorded two pop albums in Canada, and was an actress
in the children's television show, You Can't Do That on Television.
Since her tremendously popular debut album, Alanis Morissette has successfully
continued to pursue both her musical and acting careers. She has also been outspoken
for a number of humanitarian and political causes, such as lobbying against oil
drilling in Alaska; advocating for gun control; supporting the United Nations
and fighting to keep music programs in schools. Because of her concern about global
climate change she narrated The Great Warming, a television series pointing
out the impact of global warming. In recognition of her work to make the world
a better place, Alanis Morissette received the Global Tolerance Award from Friends
of the United Nations in 2001, and in 2003 was honored with the prestigious Patrick
Lippert Award given to popular artists active in humanitarian causes.
