Briefly: Alanis Morissette, Melissa Etheridge, Will Smith, Gorillaz

February 17, 2005 06:22 PM
Alanis Morissette was among 4,500 people who took the U.S. citizenship oath during a ceremony last week at the Los Angeles Convention Center.

In a press release, the Canadian-born Morissette said she will retain dual citizenship.

"I will never renounce my Canadian citizenship," she said. "I consider myself a Canadian-American.

"There was a turning point during the ceremony where I felt connected to this country in a way that I didn't quite expect," she said. "America has been really great to me and I have felt welcomed since the day I came here."

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Melissa Etheridge will be interviewed for the Feb. 20 edition of NBC-TV's "Dateline." It will mark her first public interview since she made her breast cancer diagnosis public last year.

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Will Smith and longtime cohort DJ Jazzy Jeff will drop a new album, "Lost and Found," on March 29. The set was produced by Timbaland, and features Mary J. Blige and Snoop Dogg.

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NME.com reports that a new album from Gorillaz , titled "Demon Days," will hit stores sometime in May. It's the follow up to the group's self-titled 2002 debut.

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