Avril Ramona Lavigne is a Canadian singer-songwriter and actress who became popular as a teenager and has been hugely successful for over a decade thanks to her pop style, influenced by punk rock. Over the years, she began to engage in new areas, including creating her own clothing line.
Avril Lavigne: a biography of the early years
Born September 27, 1984 in Canada, in the city of Belleville, in the family of Jean-Claude Joseph and Judith-Rosanne Lavigne. She spent most of her childhood in Napanee. She has a sister Michelle and brother Matthew. To their great chagrin, Avril Lavigne (photo below in the article) sang all the time in childhood. She was brought up by deeply religious parents and first began performing in a church choir. At age 12, Avril learned to play the guitar and began to compose her own music. Her father supported her: he bought her a microphone, drums, a piano and several guitars, and placed at her disposal a basement.
At first, Avril focused on country music, and eventually changed her style. At age 14, she began performing in karaoke and won the competition by performing in a duet with Shania Twain in front of an audience of 20, 000. At the age of 16, leaving high school with the consent of her parents, she and her brother went to New York and then to Los Angeles to collaborate with Arista Records.
The first steps
A professional musical biography Avril Lavigne began when she was 17 years old. She appeared on stage as a lively pop punk girl who refused to attract the audience with her body, preferring to use her powerful voice, energetic melodies and straightforward lyrics for this. Unshakable loyalty to herself and the principle of always putting music first, not appearance, were paid for by the efforts of a little girl from Napanee. Both critics and commercial success.
In 2002, the 6-time platinum album Let Go brought Avalanche to the world's pop stars. Then followed: three times platinum Under My Skin in 2004, platinum The Best Damn Thing of 2007 and the 2011 disc Goodbye Lullaby, which sold worldwide more than 2 million copies. Over her many years of career, Lavigne has released a number of international singles, traveled the globe, having been on numerous world tours, was nominated for a Grammy Award 8 times and awarded the Canadian Juno Prize.
Dizzying success
The self-taught musician who plays the guitar, piano and drums, who writes each song herself, Avril Lavigne sang and performed for several years before releasing the Let Go CD, which included popular singles like Complicated and Sk8r Boi, which sold out - more than 16 million copies. The 2004 Under My Skin debut album debuted at the top of the Billboard Top 200 list.
The second disc in Avril Lavigne's biography was described by some listeners (for example, on the Allmusic website) as “clumsy”. But, nevertheless, over 8 million copies were sold worldwide thanks to the singles Do Not Tell Me and My Happy Ending. After 4 years, The Best Damn Thing appeared with the No. 1 hit Girlfriend. This is the best rock singer record to date, which became the best digital track of 2007, downloaded more than 7.3 million times. Here's To Never Growing Up, the first single of the self-titled new album Avril Lavigne, released in April 2013, debuted first in 22 countries and entered the top 10 singles in the 44s. In total, the rock singer received 221 awards and was nominated 301 times.
Co-authorship and work in the cinema
In addition, Lavigne is a co-author of songs written for other artists, such as Kelly Clarkson (hit Breakaway), as well as tracks for Demi Lovato and Leona Lewis. Her compositions graced the soundtracks for such feature films as “Eragon”, “Stylish Home” (Sweet Home Alabama), “Bruce Almighty”, “Legally Blonde 2”, “Princess Diaries 2”, “For Boys This like ”(The House Bunny) and“ Alice in Wonderland ”. In addition, she voiced Heather in the cartoon "Forest Brothers" (2006) and starred in the films "Fast Food Nation" (2006), "Flocks" (2007), "Hold on to the End" (2004).
Sabrina, the Teenage Witch (2002) was the first experience of filming a movie in the biography of Avril Lavigne (in Russian, the series is known as “Sabrina is a little witch”). In 2010, she wrote the song “Alice” for Tim Burton’s fantasy film, which was included in Almost Alice. In addition, her bestselling fashion and style brand Abbey Dawn created costumes for Alice in Wonderland, which were sold in stores in connection with the release of the film.
Business and charity
Thanks to Abbey Dawn, Lavigne has become an insanely successful entrepreneur. The brand sells youth collections of clothing and accessories inspired by her life, music and travels around the world; as well as 3 fragrances: Black Star (“Black Star”), Forbidden Rose (“Forbidden Rose”) and Wild Rose (“Rosehip”). Over the years, she developed special accessories and contributed to the Avril Lavigne Foundation, which works in partnership with charities such as Easter Seals, Erase MS and Make-A-Wish. In addition, she participated in the ALDO fundraising campaign to educate the public about AIDS. To date, the Avril Lavigne Foundation has raised more than half a million US dollars to support children and youth living with severe illnesses or disabilities through awareness-raising initiatives and grants.
Last album
Despite the fact that business and philanthropy take a lot of time, music for the rock singer still remains in the first place. In November 2013, Avril Lavigne's 5th album appeared in the biography, entitled Avril Lavigne. She worked on it with new collaborators (Chad Kraeger and David Hodges, with whom she wrote 8 songs, as well as Martin Johnson, J. Cash, Matt Squire and others), experimenting with a wide range of sounds: from nostalgic carefree pop music (Here's To Never Grow Up Up, Bitchin 'Summer, 17) to unceremonious rock (Rock N Roll, Bad Girl with Marilyn Manson) and from cheeky dubstep (Hello Kitty) to her signature ballads - "Hush Hush" and "Let Me Go" in a duet with Kraeger from Nickelback, whom she married in July 2013.
Avril Lavigne biography: personal life
After three years of marriage, Lavigne and first husband Derik Whibley divorced in 2009. Then, from February 2010 to January 2012, she met with model and reality star Brody Jenner.
In August 2012, Lavigne began collaborating with musician Chad Kraeger, frontman of the rock band Nickelback. They were introduced by her manager, who thought they would be a good team. In the process of creating the album, Avril and Chad fell in love. According to Lavigne, the idea of working with Chad seemed to her a good idea, because she thought it would be nice to write songs with another artist. “He knows what it means to sell a song to a large crowd of listeners. He is a guitar player. He is a rock star. He goes through what I am experiencing. We are both from Canada. It makes sense to put two people who live the same life in one room. We first met in the studio. We got close thanks to the music. The studio was Chad, me and Dave Hodges. We called ourselves a tripod. That is how the recording began. ” Lavigne had just finished a world tour, and her job was to go to the studio every day with these guys. They put on cylinders, smoked cigarettes, ordered pizza, lay on the floor, composed songs every day and simply laughed heartily. And Chad was the funniest of all.
Lavigne and Kraeger met in February 2012 and got married in July 2013 at a ceremony in the south of France. But a year later, on September 2, 2015, she announced that they had broken up.
Avril Lavigne's biography in recent years has been overshadowed by the fight against Lyme disease. She reported this in April 2015 to People magazine. According to her, she was bedridden for 5 months. In June of that year, Lavigne shared additional information in her first television interview from the time she was diagnosed with the disease. She explained that before receiving the necessary help, she was examined by many doctors. Lavigne told ABC News she was halfway ahead and is looking forward to a 100 percent recovery.
