Morissette named to songwriters hall

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Alanis Morissette is getting a place in the Canadian Songwriters Hall of Fame.

The Ottawa-raised singersongwriter is the newest inductee and is expected to appear at Toronto’s Massey Hall on Sept. 24 for the induction ceremony..

Fellow Juno Award winners Charlotte Cardin, Jessie Reyez

and Serena Ryder will perform at the evening of tributes, the first in-person gala ceremony since 2017.

Other honourees expected to make appearances include Bryan Adams and Jim Vallance, who were announced as inductees in March.

Additional 2022 hall of fame inductees and performers will be announced in the coming months.

Tickets for the gala go on sale at 10 a.m. Friday through the Massey Hall website.

Morissette has released nine studio albums, selling more than 60 million copies.

She began her career as a teen pop singer with the 1987 single “Fate Stay With Me,” following it up with the 1991 album “Alanis,” which helped her win her first Junos.

Several years later, she would re-emerge with an alternativerock sound on her third studio album, “Jagged Little Pill,” cowritten with producer Glen

Ballard and featuring the No. 1 singles “You Oughta Know,” “Hand in my Pocket” and “Ironic.”

The album would become the first to sell more than two million copies in Canada, a doublediamond certification status held by one other Canadian artist: Shania Twain.