Olivia Rodrigo Honours Canadian Songwriters Corridor Of Fame Inductee Alanis Morissette 

Olivia Rodrigo helped her function mannequin Alanis Morissette add one other honour to her “lengthy record of musical achievements.”

The 19-year-old pop star attended the 2022 Canadian Songwriters Corridor of Fame Gala on Sept. 24 the place she delivered a touching speech to assist induct Morissette, 48, into the Canadian Songwriters Corridor of Fame.

However, earlier than steeping foot inside Toronto’s Massey Corridor, the place the gala came about, attendees hit the pink carpet, the place ET Canada’s Carlos Bustamante caught up with Morissette.

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“It means the world to me that my writing has invited folks to specific themselves in no matter method they need,” the singer-songwriter shared, acknowledging her honorary achievement as a Canadian artist.

Morissette’s music has, in accordance with the singer herself, impressed folks “to only be who they’re,” together with Rodrigo.

Contained in the occasion, the “Drivers License” singer started her speech by referencing one in all Morissette’s Grammy-winning albums that was launched eight years earlier than she was born- 1995’s Jagged Little Capsule. 

“My life was utterly modified. Alanis’s songwriting was in contrast to something I’d ever heard earlier than and I haven’t heard something fairly prefer it since,” Rodrigo stated of the album, which she first heard at age 13. “And that voice — fierce and tender and generally humorous and playful. I turned hooked for all times.”

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“Alanis captured the anger, the grief and the love of the human expertise higher than anybody. Her songs unite folks and empower folks and assist them heal,” she continued. “Alanis, you’re a trailblazer and also you’ve impressed a complete technology of uncompromising, radically trustworthy songwriting. However much more than your lengthy record of musical achievements, I look as much as your character and your kindness most of all.

“If that they had a corridor of fame for being probably the most unimaginable human being with the largest coronary heart, I’m 100 per cent optimistic you’d be inducted into that one as effectively.”

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In the course of the gala, David Foster was additionally inducted into the Canadian Songwriters Corridor of Fame. The musician was joined by his spouse Katharine McPhee.

For extra on Morissette, watch the clip above.