Events

1500 – Vicente Yáñez Pinzón becomes the first European to set foot on Brazil.

1531 – Lisbon, Portugal is hit by an earthquake--thousands die.

1564 – The Council of Trent issues its conclusions in the Tridentinum, establishing a distinction between Roman Catholicism and Protestantism.

1564 – The Grand Duchy of Lithuania defeats the Tsardom of Russia in the Battle of Ula during the Livonian War.

1565 – Battle of Talikota, fought between the Vijayanagara Empire and the Islamic sultanates of the Deccan, leads to the subjugation, and eventual destruction of the last Hindu kingdom in India, and the consolidation of Islamic rule over much of the Indian subcontinent.

1589 – Job is elected as Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia.

1699 – Treaty of Carlowitz is signed.

1700 – The magnitude 9 Cascadia Earthquake takes place off the west coast of the North America, as evidenced by Japanese records.

1736 – Stanislaus I of Poland abdicates his throne.

1788 – The British First Fleet, led by Arthur Phillip, sails into Port Jackson (Sydney Harbour) to establish Sydney, the first permanent European settlement on the continent. Commemorated as Australia Day

1808 – Rum Rebellion, the only successful (albeit short-lived) armed takeover of the government in Australia.

1837 – Michigan is admitted as the 26th U.S. state.

1838 – Tennessee enacts the first prohibition law in the United States

1841 – The United Kingdom formally occupies Hong Kong, which China later formally cedes.

1855 – Point No Point Treaty is signed in Washington Territory.

1856 – First Battle of Seattle. Marines from the drive off American Indian attackers after all day battle with settlers.

1861 – American Civil War: The state of Louisiana secedes from the Union.

1863 – American Civil War: General Ambrose Burnside is relieved of command of the Army of the Potomac after the disastrous Fredericksburg campaign. He is replaced by Joseph Hooker.

1863 – American Civil War: Governor of Massachusetts John Albion Andrew receives permission from Secretary of War to raise a militia organization for men of African descent.

1870 – American Civil War: Virginia rejoins the Union.

1885 – Troops loyal to The Mahdi conquer Khartoum.

1905 – The world's largest diamond ever, the Cullinan weighing , is found at the Premier Mine near Pretoria in South Africa.

1907 – The Short Magazine Lee-Enfield Mk III is officially introduced into British Military Service, and remains the second oldest military rifle still in official use.

1911 – Glenn H. Curtiss flies the first successful American seaplane.

1911 – Richard Strauss' opera ''Der Rosenkavalier'' receives its debut performance at the Dresden State Opera.

1918 – Finnish Civil War: A group of Red Guards hangs a red lantern atop the tower of Helsinki Workers' Hall to symbolically mark the start of the war.

1920 – Former Ford Motor Company executive Henry Leland launches the Lincoln Motor Company which he later sold to his former employer.

1924 – Saint Petersburg, Russia, is renamed Leningrad.

1930 – The Indian National Congress declares 26 January as Independence Day or as the day for Poorna Swaraj (Complete Independence) which occurred 20 years later.

1934 – The Apollo Theater reopens in Harlem, New York City.

1934 – German-Polish Non-Aggression Pact is signed.

1939 – Spanish Civil War: Troops loyal to nationalist General Francisco Franco and aided by Italy take Barcelona.

1942 – World War II: The first United States forces arrive in Europe landing in Northern Ireland.

1945 – World War II: The Red Army begins encircling the German Fourth Army near Heiligenbeil in East Prussia, which will end in destruction of the 4th Army two months later.

1950 – The Constitution of India comes into force, forming a republic. Rajendra Prasad is sworn in as its first President of India. Observed as Republic Day in India.

1952 – Black Saturday in Egypt: rioters burn Cairo's central business district, targeting British and upper-class Egyptian businesses.

1958 – Japanese ferry ''Nankai Maru'' capsizes off southern Awaji Island, Japan, 167 killed.

1960 – Danny Heater sets a worldwide high school basketball scoring record when he records 135 points for Burnsville High School (West Virginia)

1961 – John F. Kennedy appoints Janet G. Travell to be his physician. This is the first time a woman holds this appointment.

1962 – Ranger program: Ranger 3 is launched to study the moon. The space probe later misses the moon by 22,000 miles (35,400 km).

1965 – Hindi becomes the official language of India.

1966 – The Beaumont Children go missing from Glenelg Beach near Adelaide, South Australia.

1978 – The Great Blizzard of 1978, a rare severe blizzard with the lowest non-tropical atmospheric pressure ever recorded in the US, strikes the Ohio – Great Lakes region with heavy snow and winds up to 100 mph (161 km/h).

1980 – Israel and Egypt establish diplomatic relations.

1991 – Mohamed Siad Barre is removed from power in Somalia, ending centralized government, and is succeeded by Ali Mahdi.

1992 – Boris Yeltsin announces that Russia will stop targeting United States cities with nuclear weapons.

1998 – Lewinsky scandal: On American television, U.S. President Bill Clinton denies having had "sexual relations" with former White House intern Monica Lewinsky.

2001 – An earthquake hits Gujarat, India, causing more than 20,000 deaths.

2004 – President Hamid Karzai signs the new constitution of Afghanistan.

2004 – A whale explodes in the town of Tainan, Taiwan. A build-up of gas in the decomposing sperm whale is suspected of causing the explosion.

2005 – Glendale train crash: Two trains derail killing 11 and injuring 200 in Glendale, California, near Los Angeles.

2009 – Rioting breaks out in Antananarivo, Madagascar, sparking a political crisis that will result in the replacement of President Marc Ravalomanana with Andry Rajoelina.

Births

1497 – Emperor Go-Nara of Japan (d. 1557)

1541 – Florent Chrestien, French writer (d. 1596)

1714 – Jean-Baptiste Pigalle, French sculptor (d. 1785)

1716 – George Germain, 1st Viscount Sackville, British soldier and politician (d. 1785)

1722 – Alexander Carlyle, Scottish church leader (d. 1805)

1763 – Charles XIV John of Sweden, Napoleonic general (d. 1844)

1781 – Ludwig Achim von Arnim, German poet (d. 1831)

1813 – Juan Pablo Duarte, Dominican founding father (d. 1876)

1826 – Julia Dent-Grant, First Lady of the United States (d. 1902)

1832 – George Shiras Jr., U.S. Supreme Court justice (d. 1924)

1842 – François Coppée, French poet and novelist (d. 1908)

1852 – Pierre Savorgnan de Brazza (Pietro Paolo Savorgnan di Brazzà), explorer (d. 1905)

1864 – József Pusztai, Slovene writer, poet and journalist in Hungary (d. 1934)

1878 – Dave Nourse, South African cricketer (d. 1948)

1880 – Douglas MacArthur, American general and Medal of Honor recipient (d. 1964)

1885 – Michael Considine, Australian politician (d. 1959)

1887 – François Faber, Luxembourgian cyclist (d. 1915)

1887 – Marc Mitscher, American admiral (d. 1947)

1891 – Frank Costello, Italian-born American gangster (d. 1973)

1891 – August Froehlich, German Roman Catholic priest, member of the resistance against Nazism and martyr (d.1942)

1891 – Wilder Penfield, American-born Canadian neurosurgeon (d. 1976)

1892 – Bessie Coleman, American pioneer aviator (d. 1926)

1892 – Zara Cully, American actress (d. 1978)

1893 – Giuseppe Genco Russo, Sicilian mafioso (d. 1976)

1900 – Karl Ristenpart, German conductor (d. 1967)

1902 – Menno ter Braak, Dutch author and polemicist (d. 1940)

1904 – Ancel Keys, American scientist (d. 2004)

1904 – Seán MacBride, Irish statesman, Nobel Prize Laureate (d. 1988)

1905 – Charles Lane, American actor (d. 2007)

1905 – Maria von Trapp, Austrian-born singer (d. 1987)

1908 – Jill Esmond, English actress (d. 1990)

1908 – Rupprecht Geiger, German painter (d. 2009)

1908 – Stéphane Grappelli, French jazz violinist (d. 1997)

1910 – Jean Image, Hungarian-born French animator (d. 1989)

1911 – Polykarp Kusch, German-born physicist, Nobel Prize Laureate (d. 1993)

1911 – Norbert Schultze, German composer and songwriter (d. 2002)

1913 – Jimmy Van Heusen, American songwriter (d. 1990)

1914 – Princess Hadice Hayriye Ayshe Dürrühsehvar (d. 2006)

1915 – William Hopper, American actor (d. 1970)

1918 – Nicolae Ceauşescu, Romanian dictator (d. 1989)

1918 – Philip José Farmer, American writer (d. 2009)

1919 – Valentino Mazzola, Italian footballer (d. 1949)

1919 – Bill Nicholson, English footballer and manager for Tottenham Hotspur. (d. 2004)

1920 – Hans Holzer, American paranormal researcher (d. 2009)

1921 – Eddie Barclay, French producer (Barclay Records) (d. 2005)

1921 – Akio Morita, Japanese businessman (d. 1999)

1922 – Michael Bentine, British comedian (d. 1996)

1922 – Seán Flanagan, Irish Gaelic footballer and politician (d. 1993)

1923 – Anne Jeffreys, American actress

1924 – Alice Babs, Swedish singer

1924 – Rauf Denktaş, Cypriot politician

1924 – Annette Strauss, American philanthropist and politician (d. 1998)

1925 – Joan Leslie, American actress

1925 – Paul Newman, American actor, philanthropist, race car driver and race team owner (d. 2008)

1925 – Claude Ryan, Canadian newspaper editor (d. 2004)

1926 – Farman Fatehpuri, Pakistani scholar

1927 – José Azcona del Hoyo, President of Honduras (d. 2005)

1927 – Bob Nieman, American baseball player (d. 1985)

1928 – Roger Vadim, French film director and actor (d. 2000)

1929 – Jules Feiffer, American cartoonist and writer

1929 – Gordon Solie, American wrestling commentator (d. 2000)

1930 – Napoleón Abueva, Filipino sculptor

1931 – Mary Murphy, American film actress

1932 – Coxsone Dodd, Jamaican record producer

1932 – George Clements, American civil rights activist and Roman Catholic priest

1933 – Ercole Baldini, Italian cyclist

1934 – Roger Landry, Canadian businessman and newspaper publisher

1935 – Corrado Augias, Italian journalist, writer and TV personality

1935 – Bob Uecker, American baseball player and broadcaster

1936 – Sal Buscema, American comic book artist

1937 – Joseph Saidu Momoh, Sierra Leone political leader (d. 2003)

1941 – Scott Glenn, American actor

1941 – Henry Jaglom, English director

1942 – Souad Hosni, Egyptian actress (d. 2001)

1943 – César Gutiérrez, Venezuelan baseball player (d. 2005)

1943 – Jean Knight, American singer

1943 – Austin "Jack" Warner, Trinidadian FIFA Vice-President and CONCACAF President

1944 – Angela Davis, American feminist and activist

1945 – Jacqueline du Pré, English cellist (d. 1987)

1946 – Gene Siskel, American film critic (d. 1999)

1947 – Patrick Dewaere, French actor (d. 1982)

1947 – Michel Sardou, French singer

1949 – Jonathan Carroll, American author

1949 – David Strathairn, American actor

1950 – Jörg Haider, Austrian far-right politician (d. 2008)

1950 – Janet Lupo, American model

1953 – Alik L. Alik, vice-president of the Federate States of Micronesie

1953 – Anders Fogh Rasmussen, Secretary General of NATO

1953 – Lucinda Williams, American singer

1954 – Kim Hughes, Australian cricketer

1955 – Eddie Van Halen, Dutch-American musician (Van Halen)

1958 – Anita Baker, American singer

1958 – Ellen DeGeneres, American actress and comedian

1958 – Salvador Sánchez, Mexican boxer

1960 – Road Warrior Animal, American professional wrestler

1960 – Charlie Gillingham, American musician (Counting Crows)

1961 – Li Cunxin, Chinese-Australian ballet dancer

1961 – Wayne Gretzky, Canadian ice hockey player

1961 – Tom Keifer, American musician (Cinderella)

1962 – Oscar Ruggeri, Argentine footballer

1963 – Riddell Akua, Nauruan politician

1963 – José Mourinho, Portuguese football manager

1963 – Andrew Ridgeley, English musician

1963 – Gisela Valcarcel, Peruvian Hostess

1964 – Peter Braunstein, American journalist, writer, playwright, and rapist

1964 – Paul Johansson, American actor

1965 – Thomas Östros, Swedish politician

1965 – Natalia Yurchenko, Soviet gymnast

1967 – Pradip Somasundaran, Indian playback singer

1968 – Ravi Teja, Tollywood film actor

1969 – Michael O'Hearn, American bodybuilder

1970 – Kirk Franklin, American gospel singer

1970 – Tracy Middendorf, American actress

1971 – Bryan Callen, American actor

1971 – Dorian Gregory, American actor

1973 – Melvil Poupaud, French actor

1973 – Mayu Shinjo, Japanese manga artist

1974 – Shannon Hale, American author

1975 – Frankie Rayder, American model

1976 – Hitomi, Japanese singer and songwriter

1976 – Willie Adler, American guitar player

1977 – Vince Carter, American basketball player

1977 – Justin Gimelstob, American tennis player

1977 – Tye Tribbett, American Singer

1978 – Estéban Germán, Dominican baseball player

1978 – Corina Morariu, American tennis player

1978 – Kelly Stables, American actress

1979 – Sara Rue, American actress

1980 – Brian Fallon, American musician (The Gaslight Anthem)

1980 – Sanae Kobayashi, Japanese voice actress

1981 – Gustavo Dudamel, Venezuelan Composer/Conductor

1981 – Juan Jose Haedo, Argentinian Cyclist

1982 – Reggie Hodges, American football player

1983 – Petri Oravainen, Finnish footballer

1983 – Su Hwan Lee, South Korean footballer

1984 – Layla Kayleigh, British television personality

1984 – Wu Qian, Chinese classical pianist

1984 – Iain Turner, Scottish footballer

1984 – Luo Xuejuan, Chinese swimmer

1986 – Gerald Green, American basketball player

1986 – Matt Heafy, American musician (Trivium)

1986 – Hero, South Korean singer (TVXQ)

1986 – Shantelle Malawski, Canadian professional wrestler

1986 – Thiago Pereira, Brazilian swimmer

1987 – Vladimir Garin, Russian actor (d. 2003)

1987 – Mia Rose, English/Portuguese singer

1987 – Marlon Mario Brandao da Silveira, Brazilian footballer

1988 – Yukiyo Mine, Japanese footballer

1989 – Emily Hughes, American figure skater

1990 – Christopher Massey, American actor

1990 – Sergio Pérez, Mexican racing driver

1993 – Cameron Bright, Canadian actor

1993 – Peter Čerešňák, Slovak ice hockey player

1996 – Tyger Drew-Honey, British actor

Deaths

946 – Eadgyth, German Queen (b. 910)

1567 – Nicholas Wotton, English diplomat

1630 – Henry Briggs, English mathematician (b. 1556)

1636 – Jean Hotman, Marquis de Villers-St-Paul, French diplomat (b. 1552)

1697 – Georg Mohr, Danish mathematician (b. 1640)

1744 – Ludwig Andreas Graf Khevenhüller, Austrian field marshal (b. 1683)

1750 – Albert Schultens, Dutch philologist (b. 1686)

1795 – Johann Christoph Friedrich Bach, German composer (b. 1732)

1799 – Gabriel Christie, British general (b. 1722)

1823 – Edward Jenner, English physician (b. 1749)

1824 – Théodore Géricault, French painter (b. 1791)

1855 – Gérard de Nerval, French writer (b. 1808)

1869 – Duncan Gordon Boyes, English recipient of the Victoria Cross (b. 1846)

1870 – Victor de Broglie, French statesman and diplomat (b. 1785)

1885 – Edward Davy, English inventor (b. 1806)

1885 – Charles George 'Chinese' Gordon, British general (b. 1833)

1886 – David Rice Atchison, American politician (b. 1807)

1891 – Nikolaus August Otto, German inventor (b. 1833)

1893 – Abner Doubleday, American military figure, and credited inventor of baseball (b. 1819)

1904 – Whitaker Wright, English mining tycoon (b. 1846)

1926 – John Flannagan, American educator

1932 – William Wrigley Jr., American industrialist (b. 1861)

1933 – Alva Belmont, American socialite (b. 1853)

1942 – Felix Hausdorff, German mathematician (b. 1868)

1943 – Harry H. Laughlin, American eugenicist (b. 1880)

1943 – Nikolai Vavilov, Russian botanist (b. 1887)

1946 – Adriaan van Maanen, Dutch-American astronomer (b. 1884)

1947 – Grace Moore, American soprano (b. 1898)

1947 – Prince Gustaf Adolf, Duke of Västerbotten, (b. 1906)

1948 – John Lomax, American musicologist and folklorist (b. 1867)

1952 – Khorloogiin Choibalsan, leader of Mongolia (b. 1895)

1953 – Athanase David, Canadian politician and businessman (b. 1882)

1961 – Stan Nichols, English cricketer (b. 1900)

1962 – Lucky Luciano, American mobster (b. 1897)

1963 – H. S. Lloyd, British dog breeder (b. 1887)

1968 – Merrill C. Meigs, American newspaper publisher (b. 1883)

1968 – Yvor Winters, American poet (b. 1900)

1973 – Edward G. Robinson, American actor (b. 1893)

1973 – Jay C. Higginbotham, American musician (b. 1906)

1976 – João Branco Núncio, Portuguese Bullfighter (b. 1901)

1979 – Nelson Rockefeller, 41st Vice President of the United States (b. 1908)

1983 – Paul "Bear" Bryant, American football coach (b. 1913)

1990 – Lewis Mumford, American historian (b. 1895)

1990 – Bob Gerard, British racing driver (b. 1914)

1992 – José Ferrer, Puerto Rican actor (b. 1912)

1993 – Jan Gies, Dutch resistance leader (b. 1905)

1993 – Jeanne Sauvé, Canadian politician (b. 1922)

1993 – Robert Jacobsen, Danish artist (b. 1912)

1996 – Georg Alexander, Duke of Mecklenburg, (b. 1921)

1996 – Harold Brodkey, American author (b. 1930)

1996 – Henry Lewis, American musician and conductor (b. 1932)

1996 – Stevie Plunder, Australian musician (b. 1963)

1996 – Dave Schultz, American wrestler (b. 1959)

1996 – Frank Howard, American college football player and coach (b. 1909)

1997 – Jeane Dixon, American astrologer (b. 1904)

1998 – Shinichi Suzuki, Japanese music teacher (b. 1898)

2000 – Don Budge, American tennis player (b. 1915)

2000 – Kathleen Hale, British author (b. 1898)

2000 – A. E. van Vogt, Canadian-born author (b. 1912)

2001 – Al McGuire, American basketball coach (b. 1928)

2003 – Valeriy Brumel, Soviet track-and-field athlete (b. 1942)

2003 – Hugh Trevor-Roper, Baron Dacre of Glanton, English historian (b. 1917)

2003 – George Younger, 4th Viscount Younger of Leckie, British politician (b. 1931)

2004 – Fred Haas, American golfer (b. 1916)

2006 – Khan Abdul Wali Khan, Pakistani politician and statesman (b. 1917)

2006 – Len Carlson, Canadian actor (b. 1937)

2006 – Carol Lambrino, son of Carol II of Romania and Zizi Lambrino (b. 1920)

2007 – Hans J. Wegner, Danish furniture designer (b. 1914)

2007 – Gump Worsley, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1929)

2008 – Christian Brando, American actor; son of Marlon Brando (b. 1958)

2008 – Viktor Schreckengost, American industrial designer (b. 1906)

2011 – Charlie Louvin, American musician (b. 1927)

2011 – Gladys Horton, American musician and singer, member of the group The Marvelettes (b. 1944)

Holidays and observances

Australia Day (Australia)

Christian Feast Day:

*Alberic

*Margaret of Hungary

*Paula

*Timothy and Titus

*January 26 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

Duarte Day (Dominican Republic)

Liberation Day (Uganda)

Republic Day (India)

External links

BBC: On This Day

On this day in Canada

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Jonathan Pierce is an American gospel/CCM singer from Odessa, Texas. His full name is Jonathan Pierce Edward Loveheart Hildreth although he prefers to perform using his first and middle names instead of his first and last name.

Pierce began singing in church at age seven and took voice lessons from age nine. Following his graduation from high school, he relocated to Nashville, where he sang with the Christ Church Choir. After meeting with Naomi Judd, he was offered a spot with The Imperials (1990–1993) and then with the Gaither Vocal Band(1994–1997).

Pierce released several albums on Curb Records and was nominated for a Dove Award in 1999. His 2000 release, ''Sanctuary'', hit No. 35 on the Billboard Top Contemporary Christian Albums chart.

Pierce appeared in the part of Joseph in the Nashville revival of ''Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat'' in December 1999. He is also an interior designer, being the lead designer for CMT's ''Ultimate Country Home'' series in 2003.

Jonathan currently resides in Nashville, TN where he is owner and operator of his own business Pierce and Company.

Discography

With the Imperials

1991: ''Big God'' (Star Song)

1992: ''Stir It Up'' (Star Song)

With the Gaither Vocal Band

1994: ''Testify'' (Chordant)

1995: ''Southern Classics: Volume II'' (Spring House)

1997: ''Back Home in Indiana'' [live] (Chordant)

1997: ''Lovin' God & Lovin' Each Other'' (Spring Hill)

Solo

1995: ''One Love'' (Curb Records)

1997: ''Mission'' (Curb)

2000: ''Sanctuary'' (Curb)

2003: ''For You'' (Curb)

Appearances on other albums

1997: ''Christmas Is Coming Home'' B.J. Thomas (Warner Resound)

1997: ''Moments'' Vestal Goodman (Chordant)

References

External links

www.pierceandco.com

Category:American male singers Category:American performers of Christian music Category:Musicians from Texas Category:Living people

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birth date	May 21, 1973
birth place	Westminster, London, England
medium	Stand-up, television, film, radio
nationality	British
active	1996–present
genre	Sitcom
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Noel Fielding (born 21 May 1973 in Westminster, London) is a British artist, comedian and actor. He is known for his roles as Vince Noir in ''The Mighty Boosh'', which he co-writes with comedy partner Julian Barratt, and as team captain on the music panel show ''Never Mind the Buzzcocks''.

Career

Stand-up comedy

Noel Fielding performed regularly as a stand-up comedian during the late 1990s, and appeared repeatedly on the television stand-up showcase Lee Mack's ''Gas''. His highly animated stand-up routine included surreal stories, physical comedy, characters, and songs, much like his later work in ''The Mighty Boosh''.

In 2010, Fielding was to perform a solo tour across the country. It was cancelled, however, so he could concentrate on writing ''The Mighty Boosh'' film and album with Barratt. Fielding told fans that he was too busy to do the tour via Twitter.

In 2010, Fielding took part in ''Channel 4's Comedy Gala'', a benefit show held in aid of Great Ormond Street Children's Hospital and filmed live at the O2 Arena in London on 30 March.

The Mighty Boosh

Fielding is best known for playing the role of Vince Noir, a childlike eccentric, opposite Julian Barratt (Howard Moon) in the cult comedy series ''The Mighty Boosh''.

Fielding met Barratt when he was performing a gig. Impressed by Fielding's skill, Barratt offered him a place to perform, and the two went on to form a partnership. Barratt and Fielding are said to have compared their relationship to a marriage; the character of Vince Noir is a kind, somewhat naive and loyal friend to Howard Moon. Vince can talk to animals, earning him the nickname "Mowgli in Flares". Vince is vibrant and flamboyant, contrasting with his Howard, who is more like a "geography teacher from Leeds".

Fielding plays various supporting characters in the Mighty Boosh, including: Tony Harrison, a small pink head with tentacles and member of the shaman council; The Hitcher, a cockney hitch-hiker with a polo mint for an eye, who enjoys "cutting people up"; Spider Dijon, a bongoist in Rudi's band; and Old Gregg, a hermaphroditic merman obsessed with Baileys Irish Cream and watercolors, who is infatuated with Howard and possesses 'The Funk' (a living creature about the size of a medicine ball, but covered in purple teats, which leak funky goodness to help music careers).

''The Mighty Boosh'' won the Shockwaves NME Best TV Award for 3 consecutive years (2007, 2008, and 2009).

Television

Outside his work on ''The Mighty Boosh'', Fielding has also had bit parts in many of Channel 4's somewhat off-beat comedy programmes, including ''Nathan Barley'', ''The IT Crowd'', ''AD/BC: A Rock Opera'' and ''Garth Marenghi's Darkplace'', more often than not appearing alongside Julian Barratt. He also appeared in 1998 sketch show ''Unnatural Acts''. In February 2007, Fielding appeared on ''Never Mind the Buzzcocks'' as a panelist, before going on to become a permanent team captain. Fielding also made a short appearance in the film ''Plunkett & Macleane'' as a bystander to Robert Carlyle's scuffle in a brothel. Fielding appeared on ''The Charlotte Church Show'' as a special guest.

At Bill Bailey's request, Fielding stood in as a team captain for three episodes during Season 21 of ''Never Mind the Buzzcocks''. He also achieved a record for the highest team score ever on the show. When Bailey returned, presenter Simon Amstell made various jokes about Fielding's departure. In 2009, Bailey left the show and Fielding became one of the regular team captains. According to Neil Gaiman's blog, Fielding was scheduled to appear in the film ''Stardust'', but had to drop out due to ill health. He won an award for the sexiest man in 2008. He also participated twice with Russell Brand in 2006 and 2007 on the annual quiz show ''The Big Fat Quiz of the Year''. He participated again in 2010 with Richard Ayoade, Alan Carr, Jonathan Ross, Michael McIntyre, and Ruth Jones. (Charlotte Church was scheduled to participate but she was unable to do so).

In 2008, Fielding appeared with comic partner Julian Barratt on ''Transmission''. As usual, he wore a somewhat flamboyant attire, this time featuring Cuban heels and polka dot trousers. He won Best Dressed Male at the Shockwaves NME Awards.

In 2009, he helped host ''Comic Relief Does Top of the Pops'' with Reggie Yates and Fearne Cotton.

Fielding played the role of "Marcus" in the series 3 of ''How Not to Live Your Life'', which was broadcast in November 2010.

Fielding will be producing his first solo series in 2011 for the Channel 4 network's E4 channel, as the broadcaster invests an additional £5 million in its comedy budget following the cancellation of reality show ''Big Brother''.

Provisionally titled ''Noel Fielding: Boopus'', Fielding said of the project: "I want to make something in the spirit of Spike Milligan or the Kenny Everett Show but using modern techniques. Blending filmed comedy with animation. Television needs a madman! I want the show to be psychedelic and beautiful but have charm and personality. If Dali made a show hopefully it would look like this."

A video shown to a select audience of C4 staff, producers, writers, performers and journalists showed the Boosh star as a stingray, discussing the recording of albums.

Fielding performed a dance to "Wuthering Heights" by Kate Bush for ''Let's Dance for Comic Relief'' reaching the finale. He has also appeared in a Kate Bush video for the remix version of "Deeper Understanding".

Radio

Fielding starred in the 2001 ''Mighty Boosh radio series'' as Vince Noir and other characters. It was broadcast on BBC London Live. He also appeared on ''The Russell Brand Show'' on BBC Radio 2 on 26 May 2007 and 13 October 2007, and Team Disgusting's show on Life fm as a co-host for one episode, along with fellow Team Disgusting members Melvis and Birdy.

In November 2007 Fielding starred in five episodes of BBC Radio 2 show ''Vic Reeves' House Arrest'' as a local vagrant who knocks on Reeves' door once a week to ask for work. His character is often given seemingly pointless tasks, such as building a galleon out of sausages, and is paid in small change.

Music

Fielding has appeared in several music videos, including Mint Royale's "Blue Song", alongside Julian Barratt, Nick Frost and Michael Smiley. He also made a brief appearance in the video for Razorlight's "In the Morning". He appeared in music videos for the Robots in Disguise songs "Girl" (alongside Chris Corner who was, at the time, boyfriend to Sue Denim), "The Tears", and "Turn It Up". Recently, Noel has been involved in the Kasabian video "Vlad the Impaler", in which he plays the titular character. He has also appeared in Kate Bush's music video "Deeper Understanding" as a means of thanks for the ''Let's Dance for Comic Relief'' performance.

Fielding is friends with the members of Razorlight, and involved them in the "Priest and the Beast" episode of ''The Mighty Boosh''. Fielding lent his voice to the Midfield General song "Midfielding". Fielding also sometimes plays bass live for Robots in Disguise. Furthermore, he has been known to DJ, often playing at The Barfly in London with the rest of The Mighty Boosh or with his DJ collective known as Team Disgusting, made up of six women and the Rev (formerly of Towers of London). Lately, he has being DJing with Dave Brown, who plays Bollo in ''The Mighty Boosh'', under the DJing phenomenon, the Doctor and the Pencil, who first appeared in the Boosh episode "The Chokes".

Art

He held his first exhibition, entitled ''Psychedelic Dreams of the Jelly Fox'' at Maison Bertaux, a patisserie in Greek Street, Soho in early 2008. He claimed that he was inspired by Henri Rousseau, René Magritte, Willem de Kooning, Roy Lichtenstein, and Dexter Dalwood. He has also revealed that he feels inspired by Salvador Dalí. A second exhibition entitled "Bryan Ferry vs the Jelly Fox" took place at Maison Bertaux, from 5 July 2010 through to 5 January 2011.

Personal life

Fielding resides in Highgate, North London. His parents are Diane and Ray Fielding, both of whom have appeared in ''Mighty Boosh'' episodes. His brother is Michael Fielding, who appears as Naboo the Enigma on the show. He also revealed on Russell Brand's radio show that his grandmother is French. According to an article in ''The Sunday Times'' he has said that his "parents had lots of parties" during his childhood. He has also stated that his parents "were just 18" when they had him.

Fielding was educated at Croydon Art College and Buckinghamshire Chilterns University College (now Buckinghamshire New University).

Fielding has stated that he has no middle name, was never baptised, and does not follow a religion. He has a penchant for celebrity clothing, claiming to have worn Johnny Depp's hat and Freddie Mercury's coat during the filming of ''The Mighty Boosh''.

His uncle (Dr Ford) also taught at KGGS.

Fielding has the benign liver condition Gilbert's Syndrome, and has commented that if he drinks too much alcohol, it gives him slight jaundice. It has been said by ''The Sunday Times'' that Fielding had hepatitis during his art college years. This forced him to not drink for six months which got him into the habit of not drinking for a couple of years. "I used to be able to enjoy myself with just nothing. I'd stay up till four in the morning, with everyone else being drunk. Just make a bit of effort and you can get used to it."

Noel was in a nine year long relationship with Robots in Disguise member Dee Plume. It ended in early 2009. He is now dating XFM London radio DJ Lliana Bird.

On 15 August 2009, Fielding revealed in an interview with ''News of the World'' that he had been taking drugs such as cocaine, ketamine, and MDMA over the past few years, caused by stress due to his increasing fame. However, he has now overcome these habits.

Filmography

Acting roles

''Horrid Henry: The Movie'' (2011)

''Deeper Understanding'' (2011) - music video

''How Not To Live Your Life'' (2010)

''Bunny and The Bull'' (2009)

''The Mighty Boosh Live Future Sailors Tour'' (2009)

''I Spit on Your Rave'' (2010)

''Boosh Live'' (2008–2009) – Vince Noir

''The Mighty Boosh Live'' (2006) – Vince Noir

''The IT Crowd'' (2006–2007, 2010) – Richmond

''Nathan Barley'' (2005) – Jones

''AD/BC: A Rock Opera'' (2004) – Shepherd

''Garth Marenghi's Darkplace'' (2004) – Monkey Man

''The Mighty Boosh'' (2004–present) – Vince Noir

''Surrealissimo: The Trial of Salvador Dalí'' (2002) – Bauer

''Autoboosh Live'' (2000) – Vince Noir

''Sweet'' (2000) – Pete Sweet

''Arctic Boosh Live'' (1999) – Vince Noir

''Plunkett & Macleane'' (1999) – Brothel Gent

''The Transponder'' (1998) – Rabbi Ginsberg

''The Mighty Boosh Live'' (1998) – Vince Noir

''Unnatural Acts'' (1998) – Various

Television appearances

'' Noel Fielding's Luxury Comedy '' (2012)

''Michael McIntyre's Comedy Roadshow'' (2011)

''Let's Dance For Comic Relief'' (2011)

''The One Show'' (2011)

''British Comedy Awards'' (2011)

''The Big Fat Quiz of the Year'' (2010)

''Michael McIntyre's Comedy Roadshow'' (2010)

'' Modern Masters, Dali (2010)

''Channel 4's Comedy Gala'' (2010)

''The Hour'' (2010)

''Alan Carr: Chatty Man'' (2009)

''Shooting Stars'' (2009)

''Comic Relief Does Top of the Pops'' (2009)

''Harry Hill's TV Burp'' (2008)

''Comic Relief's The Big One'' (2007)

''The Big Fat Quiz of the Year'' (2007)

''The Charlotte Church Show''

:*Episode 2x02 (2007)

''Never Mind the Buzzcocks''

:*21x02-21x04 (2007) Team Captain :*Episode 20x02 (2007) :*Permanent team captain, 2009–present

''The Big Fat Quiz of the Year'' (2006)

''British Comedy Awards 2006'' (2006)

''The Culture Show'' (2006)

''1 Leicester Square'' (2006)

''Friday Night with Jonathan Ross''

:*Episode 11x10 (2006)

''The Secret Policeman's Ball'' (2006)

''Soccer AM'' (2006)

''BBC Breakfast''

:*interview (2006)

''TRL (2006)

''Alan Partridge Presents: The Cream of British Comedy'' (2005)

''BBC Breakfast''

:*Episode dated 26 July 2005 (2005)

''28 Acts in 28 Minutes'' (2005)

''British Comedy Awards 2004'' (2004)

''Garth Marenghi's Darkplace'' (2004)

''Melbourne International Comedy Festival Gala'' (2003)

''Liquid News'' (2003)

''Brain Candy'' (2002)

''The Big Schmooze''

:*Episode 1x04 (2000)

''Comedy Café'' (1999)

:*Episode 1x07

''Gas'' (1997)

Awards

2010 ''The Mighty Boosh'' won Best DVD at the Shockwaves NME Awards 2010.

2009 ''The Mighty Boosh'' won Best TV Show at the Shockwaves NME Awards 2009.

2009 ''4th in dave's sexiest stand up comedians.

2008 ''2nd Best Dressed Man of the Year'' GQ Awards.

2008 '' Situation Comedy and Comedy Drama '' Royal Television Awards 2008.

2008 '' Best Dressed'' Shockwaves NME Awards 2008.

2008 '' Sexiest Man'' Shockwaves NME Awards 2008.

2008 ''The Mighty Boosh'' won Best TV Show at the Shockwaves NME Awards 2008.

2007 ''The Mighty Boosh'' won Best TV Show at the Shockwaves NME Awards 2007.

2003 ''Time Out'' comedy award winner for outstanding achievement.

2002 Solo Edinburgh show ''Voodoo Hedgehog'' nominated for a Perrier

2001 ''The Boosh'', first on London Live, then on Radio 4.

2000 ''Arctic Boosh'' won the Barry Award at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival

1999 Perrier nominee with Julian Barratt as ''Arctic Boosh''

1998 Herald Angel Award winner.

1998 Perrier Best Newcomer winner with Julian Barratt as the double act ''The Mighty Boosh (1998 Stage show)''

References

External links

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name	Alanis Morissette
background	solo_singer
birth name	Alanis Nadine Morissette
birth date	June 01, 1974
origin	Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
children	Ever Imre Morissette-Treadway
instrument	Piano, guitar, flute, harmonica, bass, vocals
genre	Alternative rockPop rockElectronica
occupation	Singer, songwriter, actress, record producer
years active	1987–present
label	MCA Records Canada, Maverick, Warner Bros., Epiphany Music
website
spouse	Mario "MC Souleye" Treadway
children	Ever Imre Morissette-Treadway (born December 25, 2010) }}

Alanis Nadine Morissette (born June 1, 1974) is a Canadian-American singer-songwriter, guitarist, record producer, and actress. She has won 16 Juno Awards and seven Grammy Awards, was nominated for two Golden Globe Awards and also shortlisted for an Academy Award nomination. Morissette began her career in Canada, and as a teenager recorded two dance-pop albums, ''Alanis'' and ''Now Is the Time,'' under MCA Records Canada.

Her first international album was the rock-influenced ''Jagged Little Pill'', released in 1995. ''Jagged'' has sold more than 33 million units globally and became the best-selling debut album in music history. Her following album, ''Supposed Former Infatuation Junkie'', was released in 1998 and was a success as well. Morissette took up producing duties for her subsequent albums, which include ''Under Rug Swept'', ''So-Called Chaos'' and ''Flavors of Entanglement''. Morissette has sold more than 60 million albums worldwide.

Early life

Morissette was born in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, the daughter of Georgia Mary Ann (née Feuerstein), a Hungarian-born teacher, and Alan Richard Morissette, a French-Canadian high school principal. She has a twin brother Wade Morissette (also a musician) who was born 12 minutes after her. Morissette's parents were devout Catholics. She attended Glebe Collegiate Institute (Ottawa, Canada) for high school.

Music career

1990–92: ''Alanis'' and ''Now Is the Time''

In 1991 MCA Records Canada released Morissette's debut album, ''Alanis'', in Canada only. Morissette co-wrote every track on the album with its producer, Leslie Howe. By the time it was released, she had dropped her stage name and was credited simply as Alanis. The dance-pop album went platinum, and its first single, "Too Hot", reached the top twenty on the ''RPM'' singles chart. Subsequent singles "Walk Away" and "Feel Your Love" reached the top forty. Morissette's popularity, style of music and appearance, particularly that of her hair, led her to become known as the Debbie Gibson of Canada; comparisons to Tiffany were also common. During the same period, she was a concert opening act for rapper Vanilla Ice. Morissette was nominated for three 1992 Juno Awards: Most Promising Female Vocalist of the Year (which she won), Single of the Year and Best Dance Recording (both for "Too Hot").

In 1992, she released her second album, ''Now Is the Time'', a ballad-driven record that featured less glitzy production than ''Alanis'' and contained more thoughtful lyrics. Morissette wrote the songs with the album's producer, Leslie Howe, and Serge Côté. She said of the album, "people could go, 'Boo, hiss, hiss, this girl's like another Tiffany or whatever.' But the way I look at it ... people will like your next album if it's a suck-ass one." As with ''Alanis'', ''Now Is the Time'' was released only in Canada and produced three top forty singles—"An Emotion Away", the minor adult contemporary hit "No Apologies" and "(Change Is) Never a Waste of Time". It was a commercial failure, however, selling only a little more than half the copies of her first album. With her two-album deal with MCA Records Canada complete, Morissette was left without a major label contract.

1993–97: Move to Los Angeles and ''Jagged Little Pill''

In 1993 Morissette's publisher MCA Music Publishing introduced her to manager Scott Welch. Welch told HitQuarters he was impressed by her "spectacular voice", her character and her lyrics. At the time she was still living at home with her parents. Together they decided it would be best for her career to move to Toronto and start writing with other people. After graduating from high school, Morissette moved from Ottawa to Toronto. Her publisher funded part of her development and when she met producer and songwriter Glen Ballard, he believed in her talent enough to let her use his studio. The two wrote and recorded Morissette's first internationally released album, ''Jagged Little Pill'', and by the spring of 1995, she had signed a deal with Maverick Records. According to manager Welch every label they had approached had passed on Morissette apart from Maverick.

Maverick Records released ''Jagged Little Pill'' internationally in 1995. The album was expected only to sell enough for Morissette to make a follow-up, but the situation changed quickly when KROQ-FM, an influential Los Angeles modern rock radio station, began playing "You Oughta Know", the album's first single. The song instantly garnered attention for its scathing, explicit lyrics, and a subsequent music video went into heavy rotation on MTV and MuchMusic.

After the success of "You Oughta Know", the album's other hit singles helped send ''Jagged Little Pill'' to the top of the charts. "All I Really Want" and "Hand In My Pocket" followed, but the fourth U.S. single, "Ironic", became Morissette's biggest hit. "You Learn" and "Head over Feet", the fifth and sixth singles, respectively, kept ''Jagged Little Pill'' in the top twenty on the ''Billboard'' 200 albums chart for more than a year. According to the RIAA, ''Jagged Little Pill'' sold more than 16 million copies in the U.S.; it sold 33 million worldwide, making it the third biggest selling album by a female artist. Morissette's popularity grew significantly in Canada, where the album was certified twelve times platinum and produced four ''RPM'' chart-toppers: "Hand In My Pocket", "Ironic", "You Learn", and "Head over Feet". The album was also a bestseller in Australia and the United Kingdom.

Morissette's success with ''Jagged Little Pill'' was credited with leading to the introduction of female singers such as Shakira, Tracy Bonham, Meredith Brooks, Patti Rothberg and, in the early 2000s, Pink and fellow Canadian Avril Lavigne. She was criticized for collaborating with producer and supposed image-maker Ballard, and her previous albums also proved a hindrance for her respectability. Morissette and the album won six Juno Awards in 1996: Album of the Year, Single of the Year ("You Oughta Know"), Female Vocalist of the Year, Songwriter of the Year and Best Rock Album. At the 1996 Grammy Awards, she won Best Female Rock Vocal Performance, Best Rock Song (both for "You Oughta Know"), Best Rock Album and Album of the Year.

Later in 1996, Morissette embarked on an eighteen-month world tour in support of ''Jagged Little Pill,'' beginning in small clubs and ending in large venues. Taylor Hawkins, who later joined the Foo Fighters, was the tour's drummer. "Ironic" was nominated for two 1997 Grammy Awards—Record of the Year and Best Music Video, Short Form—and won Single of the Year at the 1997 Juno Awards, where Morissette also won Songwriter of the Year and the International Achievement Award. The video ''Jagged Little Pill, Live,'' which was co-directed by Morissette and chronicled the bulk of her tour, won a 1998 Grammy Award for Best Music Video, Long Form.

Following the stressful tour, Morissette started practicing Iyengar Yoga for balancing, and after the last December 1996 show, she headed to India for six weeks, accompanied by her mother, two aunts and two female friends.

1998–2000: ''Supposed Former Infatuation Junkie'' and ''Alanis Unplugged''

Morissette was featured as a guest vocalist on Ringo Starr's cover of "Drift Away" on his 1998 album, ''Vertical Man'', and on the songs "Don't Drink the Water" and "Spoon" on the Dave Matthews Band album ''Before These Crowded Streets''. She recorded the song "Uninvited" for the soundtrack to the 1998 film ''City of Angels''. Although the track was never commercially released as a single, it received widespread radio airplay in the U.S. At the 1999 Grammy Awards, it won in the categories of Best Rock Song and Best Female Rock Vocal Performance, and was nominated for Best Song Written for a Motion Picture, Television or Other Visual Media. Later in 1998, Morissette released her fourth album, ''Supposed Former Infatuation Junkie'', which she wrote and produced with Glen Ballard.

Privately, the label hoped to sell a million copies of the album on initial release; instead, it debuted at number one on the ''Billboard'' 200 chart with first-week sales of 469,000 copies—a record, at the time, for the highest first-week sales of an album by a female artist. The wordy, personal lyrics on ''Supposed Former Infatuation Junkie'' alienated many fans, and after the album sold considerably less than ''Jagged Little Pill'', many labelled it an example of the sophomore jinx. However, it received positive reviews, including a four-star review from ''Rolling Stone''. In Canada, it won the Juno Award for Best Album and was certified four times platinum. "Thank U", the album's only major international hit single, was nominated for the 2000 Grammy Award for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance; the music video, which featured Morissette nude, generated mild controversy. Morissette herself directed the videos for "Unsent" and "So Pure", which won, respectively, the MuchMusic Video Award for Best Director and the Juno Award for Video of the Year. The "So Pure" video features actor Dash Mihok, with whom Morissette was in a relationship at the time.

Morissette contributed vocals to "Mercy", "Hope", "Innocence", and "Faith", four tracks on Jonathan Elias's project ''The Prayer Cycle'', which was released in 1999. The same year, she released the live acoustic album ''Alanis Unplugged'', which was recorded during her appearance on the television show ''MTV Unplugged''. It featured tracks from her previous two albums alongside four new songs, including "King of Pain" (a cover of The Police song) and "No Pressure over Cappuccino", which Morissette wrote with her main guitar player, Nick Lashley. The recording of the ''Supposed Former Infatuation Junkie'' track "That I Would Be Good", released as a single, became a minor hit on hot adult contemporary radio in America. Also in 1999, Morissette released a live version of her song "Are You Still Mad" on the charity album ''Live in the X Lounge II''. For her live rendition of "So Pure" at Woodstock '99, she was nominated for Best Female Rock Vocal Performance at the 2001 Grammy Awards. During summer 1999, Alanis toured with singer/songwriter Tori Amos on the 5 And A Half Weeks Tour in support of Amos' album ''To Venus And Back''.

2001–03: ''Under Rug Swept'' and ''Feast on Scraps''

In 2001, Morissette was featured with Stephanie McKay on the Tricky song "Excess", which is on his album ''Blowback.'' Morissette released her fifth studio album, ''Under Rug Swept,'' in February 2002. For the first time in her career, she took on the role of sole writer and producer of an album. Her band, comprising Joel Shearer, Nick Lashley, Chris Chaney, and Gary Novak, played the majority of the instruments; additional contributions came from Eric Avery, Dean DeLeo, Flea, and Meshell Ndegeocello.

''Under Rug Swept'' debuted at number one on the ''Billboard'' 200 chart, eventually going platinum in Canada and selling one million copies in the U.S. It produced the hit single "Hands Clean", which topped the Canadian Singles Chart and received substantial radio play; for her work on "Hands Clean" and "So Unsexy", Morissette won a Juno Award for Producer of the Year. A second single, "Precious Illusions", was released, but it did not garner significant success outside Canada or U.S. hot AC radio.

Later in 2002, Morissette released the combination package ''Feast on Scraps,'' which includes a DVD of live concert and backstage documentary footage directed by her and a CD containing eight previously unreleased songs from the ''Under Rug Swept'' recording sessions. Preceded by the single "Simple Together", it sold roughly 70,000 copies in the U.S. and was nominated for a Juno Award for Music DVD of the Year.

2004–05: ''So-Called Chaos'', ''Jagged Little Pill Acoustic'' and ''The Collection''

Morissette hosted the Juno Awards of 2004 dressed in a bathrobe, which she took off to reveal a flesh-colored bodysuit, a response to the era of censorship in the U.S. caused by Janet Jackson's breast-reveal incident during the Super Bowl XXXVIII halftime show. Morissette released her sixth studio album, ''So-Called Chaos'', in May 2004. She wrote the songs on her own again, and co-produced the album with Tim Thorney and pop music producer John Shanks. The album debuted at number five on the ''Billboard'' 200 chart to generally mixed critical reviews, and it became Morissette's lowest seller in the U.S. The lead single, "Everything", achieved major success on adult top 40 radio in America and was moderately popular elsewhere, particularly in Canada, although it failed to reach the top forty on the U.S. Hot 100. Because the first line of the song includes the word ''asshole'', American radio stations refused to play it, and the single version was changed to include the word ''nightmare'' instead. Two other singles, "Out Is Through" and "Eight Easy Steps", fared considerably worse commercially than "Everything", although a dance mix of "Eight Easy Steps" was a U.S. club hit.

Morissette embarked on a U.S. summer tour with long-time friends and fellow Canadians Barenaked Ladies, working with the non-profit environmental organization Reverb.

To commemorate the tenth anniversary of ''Jagged Little Pill'', Morissette released a studio acoustic version, ''Jagged Little Pill Acoustic,'' in June 2005. The album was released exclusively through Starbucks' Hear Music retail concept through their coffee shops for a six-week run. The limited availability led to a dispute between Maverick Records and HMV North America, who retaliated by removing Morissette's other albums from sale for the duration of Starbucks's exclusive six-week sale. As of November 2010, ''Jagged Little Pill Acoustic'' had sold 372,000 copies in the U.S., and a video for "Hand in My Pocket" received rotation on VH1 in America. The accompanying tour ran for two months in mid 2005, with Morissette playing small theatre venues. During the same period, Morissette was inducted into Canada's Walk of Fame.

Morissette opened for The Rolling Stones for a few dates of their A Bigger Bang Tour in the autumn of 2005.

Morissette released the greatest hits album ''Alanis Morissette: The Collection'' in late 2005. The lead single and only new track, a cover of Seal's "Crazy", was a U.S. adult top 40 and dance hit, but it achieved only minimal chart success elsewhere. A limited edition of ''The Collection'' features a DVD including a documentary with videos of two unreleased songs from Morissette's 1996 Can't Not Tour: "King of Intimidation" and "Can't Not". (A reworked version of "Can't Not" had also appeared on ''Supposed Former Infatuation Junkie''.) The DVD also includes a ninety-second clip of the unreleased video for the single "Joining You". As of November 2010, ''The Collection'' had sold 373,000 copies in the U.S., according to Soundscan.

Alanis performed two songs with Avril Lavigne: Morissette's "Ironic" and Lavigne's "Losing Grip".

2006–09: ''Flavors of Entanglement''/Leaving Maverick Records

2006 marked the first year in Morissette's musical career without a single concert appearance showcasing her own songs, with the exception of an appearance on ''The Tonight Show with Jay Leno'' in January when she performed "Wunderkind".

On April 1, 2007, Morissette released a tongue-in-cheek cover of The Black Eyed Peas's selection "My Humps", which she recorded in a slow, mournful voice, accompanied only by a piano. The accompanying YouTube-hosted video, in which she dances provocatively with a group of men and hits the ones who attempt to touch her "lady lumps", had received 16,465,653 views on February 15, 2009. Morissette did not take any interviews for a time to explain the song, and it was theorized that she did it as an April Fools' Day joke. Black Eyed Peas vocalist Stacy "Fergie" Ferguson responded by sending Morissette a buttocks-shaped cake with an approving note. On the verge of the release of her latest album, she finally elaborated on how the video came to be, citing that she became very much emotionally loaded while recording her new songs one after the other and one day she wished she could do a simple song like "My Humps" in a conversation with Guy Sigsworth and the joke just took a life of its own when they started working on it.

Morissette performed at a gig for The Nightwatchman, a.k.a. Tom Morello of Rage Against the Machine and Audioslave fame, at the Hotel Café in Los Angeles in April 2007. The following June, she performed "The Star-Spangled Banner" and "O Canada", the American and Canadian national anthems, in Game 4 of the Stanley Cup Finals between the Ottawa Senators and the Anaheim Ducks in Ottawa, Ontario. (The NHL requires arenas to perform both the American and Canadian national anthems at games involving teams from both countries.) In early 2008, Morissette participated in a tour with Matchbox Twenty and Mutemath as a special guest.

Morissette's seventh studio album, ''Flavors of Entanglement'', which was produced by Guy Sigsworth, was released in mid 2008. She has stated that in late 2008, she would embark on a North American headlining tour, but in the meantime she would be promoting the album internationally by performing at shows and festivals and making television and radio appearances. The album's first single was "Underneath", a video for which was submitted to the 2007 Elevate Film Festival, the purpose of which festival was to create documentaries, music videos, narratives and shorts regarding subjects to raise the level of human consciousness on the earth. On October 3, 2008, Morissette released the video for her latest single, "Not as We".

Morissette left Maverick Records after all promotion for ''Flavors'' was completed.

2010–present

Recently, Morissette has contributed to ''1 Giant Leap'', performing "Arrival" with Zap Mama and she has released an acoustic version of her song "Still" as part of a compilation from Music for Relief in support of the 2010 Haiti earthquake crisis. Morissette has also recorded a cover of the 1984 Willie Nelson and Julio Iglesias hit, "To All the Girls I've Loved Before", re-written as "To All the Boys I've Loved Before". Nelson played rhythm guitar on the recording.

In April 2010, Morissette released the song "I Remain", which she wrote for the ''Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time'' soundtrack.

On May 26, 2010, the season finale of ''American Idol'', Morissette performed a duet of her song "You Oughta Know" with Runner Up Crystal Bowersox.

Acting career

In 1986, Morissette had her first stint as an actor: five episodes of the children's television show ''You Can't Do That on Television''. She appeared on stage with the Orpheus Musical Theatre Society in 1985 and 1988.

In 1993, she appeared in the film ''Just One of the Girls'' starring Corey Haim, which she described as "horrible".

In 1999, Morissette delved into acting again, for the first time since 1993, appearing as God in the Kevin Smith comedy ''Dogma'' and contributing the song "Still" to its soundtrack. She also appeared in the hit HBO comedies ''Sex and the City'' and ''Curb Your Enthusiasm'', appeared in the play ''The Vagina Monologues'', and had a brief role in the Brazilian hit soap opera "Celebridade" (''Celebrity'').

In late 2003, Morissette appeared in the Off-Broadway play ''The Exonerated'' as Charlie Jacobs, a death row inmate freed after proof surfaced that she was innocent. In April 2006, MTV News reported that Morissette would reprise her role in ''The Exonerated'' in London from May 23 until May 28.

She expanded her acting credentials with the July 2004 release of the Cole Porter biographical film ''De-Lovely'', in which she performed the song "Let's Do It (Let's Fall in Love)" and had a brief role as an anonymous stage performer. In February 2005, she made a guest appearance on the Canadian television show ''Degrassi: The Next Generation'' with ''Dogma'' co-star Jason Mewes and director Kevin Smith.

In 2006, she guest starred in an episode of Lifetime's ''Lovespring International'' as a homeless woman named Lucinda, three episodes of FX's ''Nip/Tuck'', playing a lesbian named Poppy, and the mockumentary/documentary ''Pittsburgh'' as herself.

Morissette has appeared in eight episodes of ''Weeds'', playing Dr. Audra Kitson, a "no-nonsense obstetrician" who treats pregnant main character Nancy Botwin. Her first episode aired in July 2009.

In early 2010 Morissette returned to the stage, performing a one night engagement in ''An Oak Tree'', an experimental play in Los Angeles. The performance was a sell out. In April 2010 Morissette was confirmed in the cast of ''Weeds'' season six, performing again her role as Dr. Audra Kitson.

It was announced on Morissette's website that she will be starring in a film adaptation of Philip K. Dick's novel ''Radio Free Albemuth''. Morissette will play Sylvia, an ordinary woman in unexpected remission from lymphoma. Morissette stated that she is "...a big fan of Philip K. Dick's poetic and expansively imaginative books" and that she "feel[s] blessed to portray Sylvia, and to be part of this story being told in film".

Personal life

Morissette dated actor and comedian Dave Coulier, 15 years her senior, for a short time in the early 1990s. In a 2008 interview with the ''Calgary Herald'', Coulier claimed to be the ex-boyfriend who inspired Morissette's song "You Oughta Know". Morissette, however, has maintained her silence on the subject of the song.

Morissette met Canadian actor Ryan Reynolds at Drew Barrymore's birthday party in 2002, and the couple began dating soon after. They announced their engagement in June 2004. In February 2007, representatives for Morissette and Reynolds announced they had mutually decided to end their engagement. Morissette has stated that her album ''Flavors of Entanglement'' was created out of her grief after the break-up, saying that "it was cathartic".

On May 22, 2010, Morissette married rapper Mario “MC Souleye” Treadway in a private ceremony at their Los Angeles home. Their first child, Ever Imre Morissette-Treadway, was born on December 25, 2010.

Morissette is a vegan.

Discography

''Alanis'' (1991)

''Now Is the Time'' (1992)

''Jagged Little Pill'' (1995)

''Supposed Former Infatuation Junkie'' (1998)

''Under Rug Swept'' (2002)

''So-Called Chaos'' (2004)

''Flavors of Entanglement'' (2008)

Filmography

Film
! Year	! Film	! Role	! Notes
1999		God
2001	''Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back''	God	cameo
2004	''De-Lovely''	unnamed singer	sang "Let's Do It, Let's Fall in Love"
2005		herself	documentary
2010		Sylvie
2012		Herself
Television
! Year	! Title	! Role	! Notes
1986	''You Can't Do That on Television''	herself
2000	''Sex and the City''	Dawn
2002	''Curb Your Enthusiasm''	herself	episode "The Terrorist Attack"
2003	''Celebridade''	herself	Brazilian soap opera
2004	''American Dreams''	singer in the Lair	episode "What Dreams May Come"
2005	''Degrassi: The Next Generation''	principal	episode "Goin' down the Road: Part 1"
2006	''Lovespring International''	Lucinda
2006	''Nip/Tuck''	Poppy	three episodes
2009–2010		Dr. Audra Kitson
Stage
! Year	! Title	! Notes
1999	''The Vagina Monologues''
2004	''The Exonerated''	played Sunny Jacobs
2010	''An Oak Tree''

Tours

1991: Vanilla Ice tour (opening act)

1995: Jagged Little Pill/Intellectual Intercourse Tour

1996: Can't Not Tour

1998: Club Tour

1999: Junkie Tour

1999: Junkie Tour Australian Leg (with Garbage)

1999: 5 ½ Weeks Tour (with Tori Amos)

2000: One Tour

2001: Under Rug Swept Tour

2002: Toward Our Union Mended Tour

2003: All I Really Want/Feast on Scraps Tour

2004: So-Called Chaos/Au Naturale Tour (with Barenaked Ladies)

2005: Diamond Wink Tour

2008: Exile in America (with Matchbox Twenty and Mutemath)

2008: Flavors of Entanglement Tour

2009: Flavors of Entanglement South American Tour

Awards and nominations

See also

Canadian rock

Music of Canada

Best selling music artists

List of diamond-certified albums in Canada

List of best-selling albums worldwide

List of best-selling music artists

Further reading

Rock on the Net

Canadian chart positions courtesy of the ''RPM'' 100 Singles chart listings.

"Alanis Morissette – Artist Chart History". ''Billboard''. Retrieved August 23, 2006.

[ "Alanis Morissette – Billboard Singles"]. Allmusic. Retrieved August 23, 2006.

"Alanis Morissette". Mariah-charts.com. Retrieved August 23, 2006.

''Rock Chicks:The Hottest Female Rockers from the 1960s to Now'' by Stieven-Taylor, Alison (2007). Sydney. Rockpool Publishing. ISBN 978-1-921295-06-5

References

External links

Official website

Alanis Morissette's Jagged Little Pill Review at Spectrum Fm

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height
position	Midfielder
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clubs3	Atlanta Beat
clubs4	NTV Beleza
clubs5	Washington Freedom
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is a female football player from Japan. She currently plays for INAC Kobe Leonessa in the Nadeshiko League Division 1.

Career

Long considered Japan's finest female footballer, she made her debut in Japan's highest domestic league at age 12. On December 6, 1993, at age 15, she made her Japanese international debut, scoring four goals in her first ever match, a win against the Philippines. She has subsequently remained a fixture for the Japanese national team, participating in the last five FIFA Women's World Cups and the 1996, 2004 and 2008 Summer Olympic Games on her way to a Japanese record 173 caps, and a Japanese female-best 80 international goals, including a hat trick in a 2011 FIFA Women's World Cup group stage match against Mexico. Sawa led the Japanese national team as captain to a World Championship victory and received the Golden Boot and Golden Ball awards as the top scorer (5 goals during the 2011 World Cup) and MVP in the tournament. After a 2-2 tie in front of a sellout crowd in Frankfurt, Germany, (with 1 goal by Sawa in the 117th minute), Japan won the penalty shootout 3-1, defeating the United States to win their first ever World Cup.

With the birth of the Women's United Soccer Association in 2001, she found herself playing in the highest-level professional women's league in the United States, for the Atlanta Beat. She scored the first goal in club history, and was a centerpiece of the Beat's three seasons in the league, helping them into the playoffs each year. Despite her diminutive stature at 5'5" (164 cm) tall and 121 lbs. (55 kg), she held her own with the mostly larger and more physical players, and was regularly among the team and league leaders in fouls taken.

Following the WUSA's demise in 2003, she returned to Japan, where she played with powerhouse NTV Beleza. In 2004 she was named Women's Player of the Year for the Asian Football Confederation.

On September 24, 2008, Homare was selected by the Washington Freedom in the first round of the 2008 WPS International Draft. She was a fixture in the Freedom midfield through the league's first two seasons before returning to Japan during preparations for the 2011 FIFA Women's World Cup.

On July 17, 2011, Homare Sawa led Japan to its first ever FIFA Women's World Cup Title with a 3-1 victory over the United States in a penalty shootout. In addition, Sawa was also awarded the Golden Boot for being the tournament's leading scorer and the Golden Ball for being the tournament's top player.

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|- | 1 || 6 December 1993 || Sarawak State Stadium, Kuching, Malaysia || || Unknown || 15-0 || 1993 AFC Women's Championship |- | 2 || 6 December 1993 || Sarawak State Stadium, Kuching, Malaysia || || Unknown || 15-0 || 1993 AFC Women's Championship |- | 3 || 6 December 1993 || Sarawak State Stadium, Kuching, Malaysia || || Unknown || 15-0 || 1993 AFC Women's Championship |- | 4 || 6 December 1993 || Sarawak State Stadium, Kuching, Malaysia || || Unknown || 15-0 || 1993 AFC Women's Championship |- | 5 || 20 September 2003 || Columbus Crew Stadium, Columbus, United States of America || || 1-0 || 6-0 || 2003 FIFA Women's World Cup |- | 6 || 20 September 2003 || Columbus Crew Stadium, Columbus, United States of America || || 2-0 || 6-0 || 2003 FIFA Women's World Cup |- | 7 || 27 September 2003 || Gillette Stadium, Boston, United States of America || || 0-1 || 3-1 || 2003 FIFA Women's World Cup |- | 8 || 19 July 2006 || Hindmarsh Stadium, Adelaide, Australia || || 1-0 || 5-0 || 2006 AFC Women's Asian Cup |- | 9 || 19 July 2006 || Hindmarsh Stadium, Adelaide, Australia || || 2-0 || 5-0 || 2006 AFC Women's Asian Cup |- | 10 || 19 July 2006 || Hindmarsh Stadium, Adelaide, Australia || || 4-1 || 11-1 || 2006 AFC Women's Asian Cup |- | 11 || 19 July 2006 || Hindmarsh Stadium, Adelaide, Australia || || 9-1 || 11-1 || 2006 AFC Women's Asian Cup |- | 12 || 5 July 2008 || Thong Nhat Stadium, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam || || 1-0 || 1-3 || 2008 AFC Women's Asian Cup |- | 13 || 8 July 2008 || Thong Nhat Stadium, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam || || 0-3 || 0-3 || 2008 AFC Women's Asian Cup |- | 14 || 6 August 2008 || Qinhuangdao Olympic Sports Center Stadium, Qinhuangdao, China || || 2-2 || 2-2 || 2008 Summer Olympics |- | 15 || 12 August 2008 || Shanghai Stadium, Shanghai, China || || 1-4 || 1-5 || 2008 Summer Olympics |- | 16 || 15 August 2008 || Qinhuangdao Olympic Sports Center Stadium, Qinhuangdao, China || || 0-1 || 0-2 || 2008 Summer Olympics |- | 17 || 20 May 2010 || Chengdu Sports Centre, Chengdu, China || || 2–0 || 8–0 || 2010 AFC Women's Asian Cup |- | 18 || 20 May 2010 || Chengdu Sports Centre, Chengdu, China || || 7–0 || 8–0 || 2010 AFC Women's Asian Cup |- | 19 || 30 May 2010 || Chengdu Sports Centre, Chengdu, China || || 2–0 || 2–0 || 2010 AFC Women's Asian Cup |- | 20 || 1 July 2011 || BayArena, Leverkusen, Germany || || 4–0 || 3–0 || 2011 FIFA Women's World Cup |- | 21 || 1 July 2011 || BayArena, Leverkusen, Germany || || 4–0 || 3–0 || 2011 FIFA Women's World Cup |- | 22 || 1 July 2011 || BayArena, Leverkusen, Germany || || 4–0 || 4–0 || 2011 FIFA Women's World Cup |- | 23 || 13 July 2011 || Commerzbank-Arena, Frankfurt, Germany || || 2–1 || 3–1 || 2011 FIFA Women's World Cup |- | 24 || 17 July 2011 || Commerzbank-Arena, Frankfurt, Germany || || 2–2 || 2–2 (3-1 p.s.o) || 2011 FIFA Women's World Cup |}

External links

FIFA 2007 Women's World Cup bio page

Japan Football Association English language bio page

WPS Press Release

Official Twitter page

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