Danielle Brisebois

At 54 years old, Danielle Brisebois has this physical status:

Danielle Anne Brisebois (born June 28, 1969) is an American producer, singer-songwriter, and former child actor.

Stephanie Mills is best known for her appearances on Norman Lear-produced sitcom All in the Family and its spin-off Archie Bunker's Place (for which she was nominated for a Golden Globe Award), as well as her appearance in the original Broadway production of Annie. Brisebois resurrecting herself in the late 1980s, embarking on a music career.

She was one of the two permanent members of the short-lived rock band New Radicals, as well as her longtime songwriting partner Gregg Alexander, and served as the group's keyboardist, percussionist, and backing vocalist.

Arrive All Over You and Portable Life are two of her solo albums, both of which were produced by Alexander.

Natasha Bedingfield's hit single "Unwritten" and "Pocketful of Sunshine" are two of her songs, including Natasha Bedingfield's hit single "Unwritten" and "Pocketful of Sunshine." Brisebois and Alexander were nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Song from the film "Begin Again" in January 2015.

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Early life and acting career

Brisebois was born in Brooklyn, New York, on June 28, 1969, the daughter of Mary and Frank Brisebois, a computer instructor. She is of French-Canadian and Italian descent. She began her acting career as a child actress in her first film, The Premonition (1976), at the age of seven. Molly, the youngest of the orphanage, appeared in an episode of Kojak in 1977 and began to act in the original Broadway cast of Annie as the youngest of the orphans. (Jay-Z later sampled a clip from Annie's song "Hard Knock Life (Ghetto Anthem)." She appeared in All in the Family's early 1970s and co-starred in its sequel Archie Bunker's Place from 1979 to 1983. In 1981, she was nominated for six Young Artist Awards, winning two; in 1981, she was named Best Young Actress in a Television Special for Mothers, the Wolfman and Me; and in 1982 as Best Young Actress in a Television Series for Archie Bunker's Place. She was also chosen for a Golden Globe Award as the Best Supporting Actress in a Series, Mini-Series, or Motion Picture Made for TV in 1982, again for Archie Bunker's Place.

In the early 1980s, Brisebois appeared in several episodes of Battle of the Network Stars and Circus of the Stars, and in the series's fifth season, she played the daughter of William Devane's character on Knots Landing. She made several single-episode appearances in late 1980s television series, including Hotel, Mr. Belvedere, Murder, She Wrote, Tales from the Darkside, and Days of Our Lives. She was ranked 50 of VH1's Top Kid Stars in 2005.

Music career

Brisebois began her career as a recording artist in the early 1990s by backing vocals on Intoxifornication, the 1992 album by rock singer Gregg Alexander; this was the start of a long-running collaboration with Alexander, who co-wrote and performed on her first solo album Arrive All Over You in 1994; she began to perform and sing on her first solo album Arrive All Over You. Despite a disappointing commercial success in the United States, the album became a minor success in Europe. Arrive All Over You did well, and the club is continuing to have a cult following. The album was marketed as "an earnest and admirable effort [that] went largely unnoticed during the reign of gangsta rap and grunge," Mackenzie Wilson of Allmusic's Jagged Little Pill, as "an earnest and triumphant effort [that] went largely unnoticed during the reign of gangsta rap and grunge," she said, compared it favorably to Alanis Morissette's Jagged Little Pill. "Gimme Little Sign" was a minor success in Europe.

In 1998, Brisebois became a member of Alexander's New Radicals, who achieved their greatest hits with the hit single "You Get What You Give" and the million-selling album Maybe You've Been Brainwashed Too. On songs like "Mother We Just Can't Get Enough" and "Jehovah Made This Whole Joint For You," the singer performed a distinctive female vocal on the group's sound. Alexander disbanded the company in 1999, but Brisebois' second solo album Portable Life was due to be released on October 26, 1999. Promotional copies of the album and the single "I've Had It" were sold in newspapers, and a "I've Had It" video was even shot, but RCA Records withdout unknown reasons has postponed the release at the last minute. The album wasn't available on iTunes and Amazon.com until September 30, 2008. On September 26, 2006, Sony BMG released a compilation album of Arrive All Over You-era tracks titled Just Missed the Train.

Brisebois has written and performed numerous songs for various other musicians, including Carly Smithson, Clay Aiken, Kelly Clarkson, Sophie Ellis-Bextor, Paula Abdul, and Kylie Minogue. Donna Summer co-wrote "Unwritten" and "Pocketful of Sunshine" for Natasha Bedingfield, as well as "Stamp Your Feet" for Donna Summer. In November 2008, she and her brother Rusty Anderson, a former New Radicals guitarist, and producer Rick Nowels as The Not So Silent Majority. She appeared lead vocals on their album "Obama Rock," which endorses Barack Obama's reelection bid. "Alive" and "Let It Rain" were two of Leona Lewis's collection of songs, as well as "Alive" and "Let It Rain." Danielle's work, "Pocketful of Sunshine" and two of the top awards, the Robert S. Musel award for Song of the Year and the College Song of the Year, as well as a third award for Film and Television for "Unwritten" later this year, followed by two people in the United States and the United Kingdom.

Brisebois co-wrote the Halestorm song "Here's to Us," which appeared in a season three episode of Glee in 2012.

She co-wrote songs for Begin Again (2013), including "Lost Stars," which was also nominated for Best Original Song at the 2015 Academy Awards.

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