Born and raised in Ottawa, Canada, Alanis Morissette has been one of the most influential singer-songwriter-musicians in contemporary music. Her deeply expressive music and performances have earned vast critical praise and seven Grammy Awards. Morissette's 1995 album JAGGED LITTLE PILL was a tour de force that changed the sound of pop music around the world. It was followed by nine more eclectic and acclaimed albums. She has contributed musically to theatrical releases and has acted on the big and small screen. Outside of entertainment, she is an avid, lifelong activist and advocate, focusing on female empowerment as well as spiritual, psychological and physical wholeness, which includes addiction and trauma recovery, personality disorders, temperament, and the advancement of a more “whole” approach to children’s education. Facilitating her message through performances, writing, interviews, teachings, workshops, keynotes, and public speaking, Alanis has shared the stage with some of today’s great thinkers and change agents, including Oprah Winfrey, Arianna Huffington, Neale Donald Walsch, Richard Schwartz, Gabor Mate, Peter Levine, dan Siegel, Marianne Williamson and others. She has also led workshops and keynote talks at learning institutions such as UCLA, Omega Institute, Esalen and 1440 Multiversity.
In 2016, Alanis launched Conversation with Alanis Morissette, a monthly podcast that features conversations with a variety of revered thinkers, authors, doctors, educators, and therapists, covering a wide range of psychosocial topics extending from spirituality to developmentalism to art. In 2019, JAGGED LITTLE PILL: THE MUSICAL made its Broadway debut at the Broadhurst Theatre in New York City, and was subsequently nominated for fifteen Tony Awards. In 2020, Alanis released her ninth studio album, Such Pretty Forks In The Road, to rave reviews; it was followed by a meditation album called The Storm Before The Calm in 2022. Following the pandemic, Alanis made a triumphant return to the road, with massive, sold out arena tours in America, Canada, Europe, South America and Asia.
A dedicated charitable activist, Morissette has supported numerous causes throughout her career, including NEDA, NAMI, RAINN, Equality Now, SafePlace International, and Postpartum Support International. Her dedication to shining a light on empowerment, art, relationships, psychological, spiritual, and somatic healing ultimately earned her a Global Tolerance Award from the United Nations.