Alanis Morissette 2007
 Alanis Morissette was born in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, to a French-Canadian father, Alan, and Hungarian mother, Georgia. Alanis has a twin brother, Wade, and an older brother, Chad. At the age of six, she began playing the piano and realised she wanted to express herself through the arts. In 1984, Morissette wrote her first song, Fate Stay with Me, which she sent to a local folk singer, Lindsay Morgan, who recruited Morissette as his prot?g?.
In 1986, Morissette had her first stint as an actress: five episodes of the children's television show You Can't Do That on Television. Using money she saved from that role, she released Fate Stay with Me as a single via a label she founded with Morgan. A limited number of copies were pressed, and it received little airplay. She appeared onstage with the Orpheus Musical Theatre Society in 1985 and 1988. During her high school years, Morissette attended Immaculata High School and Glebe Collegiate Institute in Ottawa.
At a New York City audition, Morissette landed a spot on Star Search, a popular American talent competition on which she used her stage name, Alanis Nadine. Morissette flew to Los Angeles to appear on the show, but lost after one round. In 1988, Morissette signed a publishing deal with MCA Publishing, which helped to fund her record deal with one of its independent subsidiary labels
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