Avril - the rocker chick

Avril Ramona Lavigne is her birth name. She was born on 27th September 1984, in Belleville in Ontario province of Canada to a religious Christian family. At the age of 2, she started singing with her mother at church. When she was 5 her family moved to Nappanee and as a teenager she used to hang out at the La Pizzeria restaurant as she got huge fetish for pizza with olive toppings (one of her fav. food). Once during an interview she stated that “When I was in high school I was a little shit, hanging out with the guys, getting drunk, getting in fights, playing hockey. My band were all guys, so I was only around guys, but when I got older I started being more of a chick. I broke out on the scene looking like the 17-year-old that I was. And from then to now I look really different—but that’s called growing up.” In 1998, she won a competition to sing with fellow Canadian singer Shania Twain on her first major concert tour. She appeared alongside Twain at her concert in Ottawa, appearing on stage to sing “What Made You Say That”. Her first musical album came up in 2002, the name of the album was ‘Let Go’. It sold nearly 18 million copies world wide and she was named best new comer artist at MTV music awards in 2002. She was nominated for 8 Grammy awards which includes ‘song of the year’ for ‘complicated’. Other singles includes ‘I’m with you’,’Sk8er Boi’ and ‘Losing Grip’ (My fav.). In May 2004, her second album was released and within the first week it sold more than 380,000 copies in US alone. The album reached number one in almost all the music charts in world. Some of the singles of the album includes ‘Don’t tell me’, ‘My happy ending’, ‘He wasn’t’ and ‘Nobody’s home’. She won two World Music Awards in 2004 for “World’s Best Pop/Rock Artist” and “World’s Best-Selling Canadian Artist”. She received five Juno Award nominations in 2005, picking up three, including “Fan Choice Award”, “Artist of the Year”, and “Pop Album of the Year”. She won the award for “Favorite Female Singer” at the eighteenth Annual Nickelodeon Kids’ Choice Awards. She represented Canada at the closing ceremony of the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin, Italy, performing her song “Who Knows” during the eight minutes of the Vancouver 2010 portion. Her latest album ‘Best Damn Thing’ was released in April, 2007 and debuted at number one in US. Her first single ‘Girlfriend’ became her first single to reach Billboard Hot 100. She got married in July 2006, in a catholic ceremony to her fellow Canadian singer Deryck Whibley, the lead singer of pop punk band Sum 41. She has been involved in number of charities which includes ‘child war’, ‘make a wish foundation’ and many more.