Where is avril lavigne born

Despite her hectic schedule Lavigne returned to the studio in to record her second album, which she was determined to make her own way. Although Lavigne did write several of the songs on Let Go, she did so with the help of a slew of producers.

This time she flew to Los Angeles to work privately with Canadian singer-songwriter Chantal Kreviazuk — ; she also cowrote one song with guitarist Ben Moody — of the band Evanescence. Lavigne's record label, Arista, did not hear a single track until the newly independent singer was finished. In June Avril Lavigne became engaged to her boyfriend of a year, Deryck Whibley — , the lead singer of Canadian punk-pop group called Sum 41, whose members are known for their quick, catchy rock tunes and their highly energized live performances.

All four attended the same high school in Ajax, Ontario, and all played in various high school bands that performed in and around Toronto.

In , during the summer of their junior year, Jocz and Whibley decided to join forces and form their own band; they called it Sum 41 since the group was founded on the forty-first day of summer vacation. Jocz and Whibley tried out a number of bass players and guitarists before asking Baksh and McClasin to join the band. By the group was cemented and they began to create a unique sound that borrowed from all kinds of music, including hiphop, heavy metal, and alternative rock.

By late the foursome had created their own press kit, which included a ten-minute video featuring some of their musical numbers interspersed with clips of the band mates pulling pranks. They sent the kit off to several major record labels, and within a week Sum 41 was signed by Island Records. The band's first album, Half Hour of Power , attracted little attention, but with 's All Killer No Filler Sum 41 began to reach an international fan base, especially because of the hit single "Fat Lip," which reached number sixty-six on the U.

Billboard charts. The band attracted a loyal fol-lowing who called themselves the Bomb Squad particularly because of their on-stage antics. During Sum 41's Tour of the Rising Sun they pogo-jumped, participated in mock guitar battles, and urged the audience to join in rock song challenges.

The band released two more albums by the mids: Does This Look Infected? Since the late s the Democratic Republic of Congo had been embroiled in the Second Congo War — , a conflict that involved nine African nations, but that was centered in the DRC.

Many artists from the United States and Canada have offered humanitarian aid to the citizens of the war-torn country. Although there is tentative peace in the DRC, military threats still exist for civilians. In April Chuck received the Rock Album of the Year prize at the Juno Awards, which are presented annually in Canada to honor achievement in the music industry. Sum Some of the press surrounding Under My Skin came as a result of a twenty-one-city mall tour that Lavigne and her band embarked on just prior to the album's release.

As Lavigne explained to Deborah Evans Price of Billboard, "We thought it would be cool to put on a free show and give back to the fans. To encourage even more sales Lavigne again went out on the road doing nonstop interviews and heading out on a spring concert tour.

By the end of the twenty-year-old Lavigne was the one of America's top-selling entertainers. She also completed her second sold-out concert tour, the Bonez Tour, which was launched in October. In , just three years after her debut album appeared, Lavigne was again the top-honored entertainer at Canada's Juno Awards. She received five nominations and took home three prizes, including the Best Artist award and a second win for Best Pop Album.

Lavigne also announced that she would be adventuring more into film by lending her voice to a character in an animated movie called Over the Hedge, scheduled for a release. Perhaps the biggest bit of personal Lavigne news came in June , when the Canadian "punk princess" became engaged to boyfriend Deryck Whibley — , lead singer of the Canadian punk-rock group Sum Although she had only two albums under her belt, most music critics predicted that Avril Lavigne had a solid future.

As USA Today correspondent Brian Mansfield told Billboard, "Avril's core audience may be a very young one, but she strikes me as the type of artist that a wide range of people respect and hope to see succeed.

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Willman, Chris. Avril Lavigne Web Site. Sum 41 Web Site. Toggle navigation. Singer, songwriter. Not a girlie-girl Avril Ramona Lavigne was born on September 27, , in Belleville, a small city in the eastern part of the province of Ontario, Canada.

She primarily sang covers of songs made popular by "Why should I care what other people think of me? Lavigne lets go Two years later, when she was sixteen, Fabri arranged for Lavigne to audition for L. The album included a song, "Slipped Away," about the death of her grandfather. She worked with Canadian singer and songwriter Chantal Kreviazuk to write some of the new music.

It was her self-proclaimed "girl-power" song about resisting pressure to have sex. She wrote another song with Ben Moody, who had previously played guitar for the band Evanescence. Lavigne did not allow anyone at Arista to hear any of her music until after it was recorded. In order to promote her new release, Lavigne performed a series of concerts at large malls across the country, starting with the Mall of America in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

The crowds ranged from a few thousand to 10, Some of [the events] were moved outside. It's been great. Late in , Lavigne gained an even younger audience when she sang the "SpongeBob SquarePants theme" for the film based on the hit Nickelodeon cartoon.

According to Heather Phares of All Music Guide, the album was "both a witty soundtrack and a hip children's album with wide-ranging appeal. Toggle navigation. Sidelights The rebellious Avril Lavigne has led the way for teenybopper mall shoppers to find a new path to music that is different from the sex-oriented pop released by such performers as Britney Spears, Jennifer Lopez, Christina Aguilera and other singers popular with the MTV crowd. Selected discography Let Go, Arista, Under My Skin, Arista, Periodicals Billboard, May 22, , p.

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Raised by deeply religious parents, she first started performing in church choirs. Lavigne learned to play the guitar and began composing her own music as a teenager. At first, she reportedly focused on country music, eventually changing her tune. In , Lavigne released her first album, Let Go.

She scored a No. In addition to her music, Lavigne was deemed a style icon; fans mimicked Lavigne's multicolored hair and copied her skate-punk fashions. Lavigne's music took a more contemplative turn with 's Under My Skin , which did not fare as well as her first album. In , she married fellow musician Deryck Whibley, of Canadian pop-punk band Sum Returning to her more up-tempo and exuberant pop style, Lavigne released The Best Damn Thing in She landed a Top 10 hit with the infectious "Girlfriend.

On next album, Goodbye Lullaby , Lavigne looked at love from different stages, from joyful togetherness to the pain of breaking up. The subject matter came as no surprise; between the release of The Best Damn Thing and her next record, Lavigne and Whibley had divorced.

The split was amicable enough, however, for the pair to work together on Goodbye Lullaby ; Whibley served as a producer on several of the album's songs. Not straying too far from her power-pop roots, Lavigne used the incredibly hooky hit "What the Hell" as the album's first single. Goodbye Lullaby enjoyed enormous success abroad, hitting the top of the charts in Japan, Australia and Korea. Music hasn't been Lavigne's only interest. She launched her own fragrance called Forbidden Rose and created her own clothing line, Abbey Dawn, using a childhood nickname given to her by her father.