Sarah McLachlan

Albums. In February 2005 she did a guest appearance on the Canadian television show Degrassi: The Next Generation along with Dogma co-star Jason Mewes and director Kevin Smith. Singles. Morissette refers to herself as a Canadian-American. [1] (http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2004/mar/15itunes.html) Sarah has also sold an estimated 30 million albums world wide. On 11 February 2005, she became a naturalized citizen of the United States while still maintaining her Canadian citizenship. McLachlan's song "The Path of Thorns" was the 50,000,000th song downloaded from Apple's iTunes Music Store. She performed the song "Let's Do It, Let's Fall In Love", and had a brief acting role as an anonymous stage performer.

On a number of occasions, McLachlan has also found herself in the news for other reasons:. In July 2004, Morissette appeared in the motion picture De-lovely, a tribute to composer Cole Porter. It ran for 4 hours and aired live on CTV across Canada. The date of the wedding has not yet been finalized. The show was the brainchild of Sarah McLachlan's manager, Terry McBride, CEO of Nettwerk. In June 2004, Morissette announced her engagement to actor Ryan Reynolds. The show also featured a performance by the Sarah McLachlan Musical Outreach Choir & Percussion Ensemble; a children's choir and percussion band from the Vancouver outreach program that Sarah provides funding for. The concert was titled One World: The Concert for Tsunami Relief, and raised approximately $3.6 million for several Canadian aid agencies working in South and South-East Asia. On May 18, 2004, the cable channel Oxygen taped an unprecedented eight hours of live footage, showing Morissette in New York City promoting the release of her new album.

On January 29th Sarah was a headliner for a benefit concert in Vancouver along with other Canadian superstars such as Avril Lavigne. The album debuted at number five on the Billboard 200 chart to generally favorable critical reviews. In early 2005 McLachlan took part in a star-studded Tsunami disaster relief telethon on NBC. In May 2004, Morissette released So-Called Chaos. She had already completed three-quarters of the Afterglow record production. clips and eventually childhood footage, the clips were digitally edited to make it appear that Morissette was singing the song at all of those times. Sarah gave birth to a daughter, named India, on April 6, 2002, in Vancouver. Beginning in present day and passing through former videos, movie and T.V.

During Sarah's hiatus in her recording career, she lost her mother to cancer in December, 2001, while Sarah herself was pregnant. Morissette's music video for the single "8 Easy Steps" featured various video clips spanning her career in music, film and television. McLachlan also funds an outreach program in Vancouver providing music education for inner city children. The joke was, however, that Morissette was still forced to "remove" her pasted-on nipples and pubic hair because they were not allowed to be shown on public television. In 1999, she was appointed as an Officer of the Order of Canada in recognition of her successful recording career, her role in Lilith Fair, and the charitable donations she made to women's shelters across Canada. Stepping out of a nightgown and wearing a semi-nude bodysuit, Morissette said, "We live in a land Canada where we still think the human body is beautiful and we're not afraid of the female breast.". Through her career, she has also received many other awards, primarily in recognition of her efforts in launching Lilith Fair. At the event, Morissette satirized the public outrage caused by Janet Jackson's breast-baring incident during the Super Bowl.

Known for the emotional sound of her ballads, some of her popular songs include "Angel," "Building a Mystery," "Adia," "Possession," and "I Will Remember You." Her best selling album to date is Surfacing, for which she won multiple Grammy Awards and four Juno Awards (Canada's equivalent to the Grammy's). Sporting a short, new hairdo, Morissette looked like a drastically different person from the angry, long-haired woman who once wrote and sang "You Oughta Know". She returned to public life and touring with her 2003 album release, Afterglow, although she has no current plans to resurrect Lilith Fair. In April 2004, Alanis Morissette hosted the Juno Awards of 2004, which was held in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. She participated along with four other Canadian artists, Bryan Adams, Jann Arden, Barenaked Ladies and Chantal Kreviazuk. "Everything", the first single off of Morissette's fourth international studio album So-Called Chaos, was released to radio in March 2004. She did, however, participate in the 2002 British Columbia Cancer Foundation Benefit Concert in memory of cancer victim Michele Bourbonnais. In response to the Super Bowl halftime controversy that occurred earlier in 2004, and the stricter Federal Communications Commission regulations that followed, Morissette changed the first line of her song, "Everything", from "I can be an asshole of the grandest kind" to "I can be a nightmare of the grandest kind" for radio.

Lilith Fair debuted in Vancouver that same year, after which McLachlan began an extended period away from recording or touring. In November 2003, Morissette appeared in the off-Broadway play The Exonerated as Sunny Jacobs, a death row inmate freed after proof surfaced that she didn't commit the crime. On February 7, 1997, she married Ashwin Sood, her longtime drummer, in Negril, Jamaica. Morissette and her concert attenders later indicated that she had in fact said, "Thank you, bless you", but by then the damage to her reputation had already been done. She was awarded the Elizabeth Cady Stanton Visionary Award in 1998 for advancing the careers of women in music. In September 2003, Morissette made headlines for supposedly exclaiming, "Thank you, Brazil!" after a show in Lima, Peru. Sarah has been extensively profiled by media including cover stories for Rolling Stone, Time magazine and Entertainment Weekly. In December 2002, Morissette released a dual CD/DVD combination package, Feast on Scraps, which included live concert footage and eight previously unreleased songs from the Under Rug Swept recording sessions. The album was nominated for a Juno for Music DVD of the Year.

It was the most successful all-female music festival in history, one of the biggest music festivals of the 90's, and helped launch the careers of several well known female artists. The album was overlooked by the Grammy Awards, most likely due to its release date, but Morissette won yet another Juno Award for Producer of the Year. The Sarah-founded Lilith Fair tour brought together 2 million people over its 3 year history and raised more than $7 million for charities. Despite eleven very well-received songs, Maverick Records only released two of them as singles, a move criticized by many fans. Over the next two years, it quietly became Sarah's international breakthrough as well, scaling the charts in a number of countries and setting the stage for 1997's Surfacing, which debuted at the top of the charts amid the hype around Lilith Fair. The album debuted at number one on the Billboard 200 chart, and sold close to a million copies in the United States alone, even though only one song from the album received any substantial radio airplay. 1993's Fumbling Towards Ecstasy was an immediate smash hit in Canada. The song's multi-layered lyrics told the story of a young Morissette's affair with an older man from two points of view:.

Her 1991 album, Solace, was her mainstream breakthrough in Canada, spawning the hit singles "The Path of Thorns (Terms)" and "Into the Fire". The album spawned the hit single "Hands Clean". There she recorded the first of her albums, Touch, in 1988, which received both critical and commercial success and included the hit song "Vox". For the first time, Morissette took on the role of sole writer and producer. The signing prompted McLachlan to move to Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. In 2002, after a four-year absence, Alanis Morissette released her third international studio album Under Rug Swept, with the notable absence of Jagged Little Pill and Supposed Former Infatuation Junkie collaborator Glen Ballard. She was signed before she had penned a single song. She also appeared on the hit HBO comedies Sex and the City and Curb Your Enthusiasm, and starred in the play The Vagina Monologues.

In 1988, she was the first artist signed by the independent Canadian record label Nettwerk. She had to turn down the female lead, and by the time her schedule allowed her to participate in the film, only the role of God, which involves virtually no speech and appears at the very end of the film, was left. Her high school yearbook claimed that she was "destined to become a famous rock star.". Smith, who claimed to be a big fan of Morissette, asked her to be in the film several times. When she was just 17 years old, she fronted a new wave band, October Game. She appeared as God in the motion picture Dogma, directed by Kevin Smith. As a child, she took voice lessons, along with studies in classical piano and guitar. In 1999, Alanis Morissette expanded her résumé by delving into acting.

Sarah McLachlan was born and adopted in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. Many fans now consider Supposed Former Infatuation Junkie to be Morissette's strongest work to date. She is widely recognized for founding Lilith Fair, a tour which showcased female musicians in the late 1990s. Many critics wrote off the album as a flop; however, repeating the incredible success of Jagged Little Pill was an almost impossible task that Morissette never expected nor set out to do. Sarah Ann McLachlan (born January 28, 1968) is a Canadian musician, singer and songwriter. That same year, Morissette released the live acoustic album MTV Unplugged. Afterglow Live (2004)-audio CD plus DVD. The first single, "Thank U", was also nominated for a Grammy for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance.

Live Acoustic (2004). In 1999, the song "Uninvited" won two Grammy Awards for Best Rock Song and Best Female Rock Vocal Performance. Afterglow (2003). Its wordy, personal lyrics turned many fans off, and after only 38 weeks, it left the Billboard 200, selling "only" 2.5 million, a huge drop from Jagged. Remixed (2001) [US Release in (2003)]. As a follow-up to Jagged Little Pill, Supposed Former Infatuation Junkie had very little staying power. Mirrorball (1999). The album debuted at number one on the Billboard 200 chart, breaking the record for the most albums sold in a single week by a female artist.

Surfacing (1997). and "I Was Hoping", which recounts several experiences that shaped Morissette's life, including an encounter in a restaurant with a chauvinistic waiter:. Rarities, B-Sides and Other Stuff (1996). Most of the songs on the disc challenged "traditional" song formulas, including "The Couch":. The Freedom Sessions (1994) - one of the first enhanced CDs ever released, combining music with CD-ROM material. Obviously, Morissette was no longer pursuing commercial success. Fumbling Towards Ecstasy (1993). 2, which would have been the commercially savvy thing to do.

Live EP (1992). Morissette didn't release Jagged Little Pill, Pt. Solace (1991). Fans and critics alike were shocked. Touch [Reissue] (1989). Morissette once again collaborated with Glen Ballard, but this time she helped produce the album as well. Touch (1988). Later that year, she released Supposed Former Infatuation Junkie (lyrics (http://www.angelfire.com/mi/wojtkiewicz/supposed.html)), an experimental album with a wordy title and lyrics to match.

A year later, Morissette auditioned for a role on the Canadian children's television show You Can't Do That on Television, shot in Ottawa, her hometown. With the help of her childhood mentor Leslie Howe, Morissette released "Fate Stay With Me" when she was 11 years old. In that same year, Morissette wrote her first song, "Fate Stay With Me", at the age of 9:. I want to meet you one day and I want to be famous, just like you.".

When she was 9 years old, she went to the home of singer Olivia Newton-John, one of her early idols, and said over the intercom at the front gates: "Hi, I'm Alanis. Morissette showed a love for singing and songwriting at an early age. She has an older brother, Chad, and a twin brother, Wade. Alanis Morissette was born on June 1, 1974, in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, to schoolteachers Alan and Georgia Morissette.