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Producer and songwriter
Glen Ballard earned his greatest success in partnership with
Alanis Morissette on her 1995 blockbuster
Jagged Little Pill.
Ballard's studio career began with actor-singer
Jack Wagner's 1984 album All I Need, which launched the hit title track; from there he worked with artists including
Teddy Pendergrass and
Ava Cherry, also playing synthesizer on
Michael Jackson's 1987 effort
Bad. After working on
Barbra Streisand's Till I Loved You and
Paula Abdul's Forever Your Girl,
Ballard's production breakthrough came with the 1990 release of
Wilson Phillips' smash self-titled debut; from there, he also collaborated with newcomers
Curtis Stigers and
Trey Lorenz. Co-writing and producing
Jagged Little Pill with
Morissette, he scored by far his biggest hit yet, also garnering a number of Grammy Awards; subsequent efforts included albums by
Brendan Lynch and the
Corrs, and through Capitol Records, in 1997
Ballard also formed his own label, Java. Two years later he wrote and produced the feature film Clubland. ~ Jason Ankeny