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Avril Ramona
Lavigne Whibley (born September 27, 1984) is a Canadian
rock singer and musician. She has sold over twenty-six
million albums worldwide[citation needed] and received
Grammy Award nominations. In 2006, Canadian Business
Magazine ranked her the seventh most powerful Canadian
in Hollywood.
Although her parents are of French origins, she doesn't
speak French, Avril is French for "April",
while la vigne means "the vine" or "the
vineyard".
Lavigne's debut album, Let Go, was released in 2002. Her
second and third albums, Under My Skin (2004) and The
Best Damn Thing (2007), respectively, reached number one
on the U.S. Billboard 200. Lavigne has scored three
number one songs worldwide to date and a total of nine
top ten hits, including "Complicated,"
"Sk8er Boi," "I'm With You,"
"Don't Tell Me," "My Happy Ending,"
and " Girlfriend."
Background: Avril Lavigne was born in Belleville,
Ontario, Canada, to a French-born father, John, and a
Franco-Ontarian mother, Judy. Both parents are Catholic
and she had a Catholic upbringing. Avril's musical
talent was first spotted at the age of two when her
mother says Avril began singing along with her on church
songs. The family moved to Napanee, Ontario, when
Lavigne was five years old.
In 1998, Lavigne 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".
She was discovered by her first professional manager,
Cliff Fabri, while singing country covers at a Chapters
bookstore in Kingston, Ontario. During a performance
with the Lennox Community Theatre, Lavigne was spotted
by local folk singer Steve Medd (a relation of the
influential Canadian journalist, Ben Medd), who invited
her to sing on his song "Touch the Sky" for
his 1999 album Quinte Spirit. She also sang on
"Temple of Life" and "Two Rivers"
for his follow up album, My Window to You, in 2000.
At the age of sixteen she was signed by Ken Krongard,
the artists-and-repertoire (A&R) representative of
Arista Records, who invited the head of Arista, Antonio
"L.A." Reid, to hear her sing at the New York
City studio of producer Peter Zizzo. She then completed
work on her first album.
Music career, Let Go (2001–2003): Let Go was
released on June 4, 2002 in the United States, reaching
number two there and number one in Australia, Canada,
and the United Kingdom. This made Lavigne the youngest
female soloist to have a number-one album in the UK up
until that time. In 2003, seventeen year-old English
singer Joss Stone broke Lavigne's record.[citation
needed]
Just over one month after its release, "Let
Go" reached multi-platinum status in late-August,
and was certified triple platinum two weeks after.
Before the end of 2002, just six months after its debut,
it was certified four times platinum by the RIAA. It
sold a total of 13,197,000 copies worldwide. It was the
best selling album of the year for a female artist and
for a debut album in 2002.
Four singles from the album were released.
"Complicated" went to number one in Australia,
while reaching number two on the U.S. Hot 100, and it
was one of the best-selling Canadian singles of 2002.
Lavigne tied a record set by Natalie Imbruglia's
"Torn" when "Complicated" held the
number one spot on the contemporary hit radio chart
(which tracks air play on the radio) for eleven weeks in
a row. "Sk8er Boi" reached the top ten in the
U.S. and Australia, "I'm with You" reached the
top ten in the U.S and the UK, and "Losing
Grip" reached the top ten in Taiwan, and the top
twenty in Chile.
Lavigne was named "Best New Artist" at the
2002 MTV Video Music Awards, won four Juno Awards in
2003 (out of six nominations), received a World Music
Award for "World's Best-Selling Canadian
Singer", and was nominated for eight Grammy Awards,
including "Song of the Year" for
"Complicated" and "Best New Artist".
Under My Skin (2004–2006): Lavigne's second
album, Under My Skin, was released on May 25, 2004, in
the U.S. It debuted at number one in the U.S., the UK,
Germany, Japan, Australia, Canada, Mexico, Argentina,
Spain, Ireland, Thailand, Korea and Hong Kong and sold
more than 380,000 copies in the U.S. in its first week.
Lavigne wrote most of the album with Canadian
singer-songwriter Chantal Kreviazuk, though some tracks
were co-written by Ben Moody (formerly of Evanescence),
Butch Walker of Marvellous 3, and her former lead
guitarist Evan Taubenfeld. Kreviazuk's husband, Our Lady
Peace front man Raine Maida, co-produced the album with
Butch Walker and Don Gilmore.
Lead single "Don't Tell Me" went to number one
in Argentina and Mexico, the top five in the UK and
Canada, and the top ten in Australia and Brazil.
"My Happy Ending" reached the top ten in the
U.S. and was her third-biggest hit there, but third
single "Nobody's Home" did not make the top
forty. The fourth single from the album, "He
Wasn't", reached top forty positions in the UK and
Australia, and was not released in the U.S. "Fall
to Pieces" was released as the final single from
the album, but did not do as well as previous singles.
Lavigne 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 "Favourite
Female Singer" at the eighteenth Annual Nickelodeon
Kids' Choice Awards. Lavigne co-wrote
"Breakaway" with Matthew Gerard, which was
recorded by Kelly Clarkson for the soundtrack to the
film The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement (2004).
"Breakaway" was later included on Clarkson's
second album, Breakaway, being released as the album's
first single. The song peaked inside the U.S. top ten
and provided Clarkson with a substantial hit.
Lavigne went on a "Live and by Surprise"
twenty-one city mall-tour in the U.S. and Canada,
starting on March 4, 2004, in Minneapolis, Minnesota, to
promote Under My Skin. Each performance consisted of a
short live acoustic set of songs from the new album. She
was accompanied by her guitarist, Evan Taubenfeld. The
venue in each city was not announced until forty-eight
hours before the show. The tour was very popular and was
successful in promoting the album. The set at
Indianapolis on March 25, 2004, at Glendale mall
included "He Wasn't", "My Happy
Ending", "Don't Tell Me", "Take Me
Away", "Nobody's Home", "Sk8er
Boi", and "Complicated". Selections of
this tour were released on the Avril Lavigne Live
Acoustic EP, which was released in U.S. Target stores.
Lavigne was touring throughout most of 2005, and
pursuing her acting and modelling careers. 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.
The Best Damn Thing (2007–present): Lavigne's
third album, The Best Damn Thing, was released on April
17, 2007 and debuted at number one in the U.S. The album
was produced by Dr. Luke, Lavigne's husband Deryck
Whibley, Rob Cavallo, Butch Walker and Lavigne. Travis
Barker recorded drums for the record. The first single
from the album was "Girlfriend, which became
Lavigne's first single to reach number one on the
Billboard Hot 100. Girlfriend has been performed in many
places including at the Logies in Australia. It is now
also availiable in many languages. On Ryan Seacrest's
radio show Lavigne said that "When You're
Gone" would be the second single.
Lavigne has been doing a small tour to promote The Best
Damn Thing, with tickets available only to members of
her fan club. She began the tour in Calgary, Alberta,
and played for a crowd of around two hundred. This show
was aired on television on April 2, 2007, on the CBC
Network.
Film career: Lavigne made her film debut in the
animated film Over the Hedge, which is based on the
comic strip of same name. She worked alongside William
Shatner, Bruce Willis, Garry Shandling, Wanda Sykes,
Nick Nolte and Steve Carell. She is also acting in the
Richard Gere film The Flock, as the girlfriend of a
crime suspect, and her third project is Fast Food
Nation, based on her favorite book. Lavigne wrote and
recorded a new song titled "Keep Holding On"
with Dr. Luke, for the Eragon film soundtrack; it was
included on her third album, The Best Damn Thing. The
song was released for digital download on November 28,
and made its worldwide debut on radio on November 17. It
reached the top spot on the Canadian top twenty. Lavigne
made a cameo in the film Going the Distance and also
appeared in an episode of Sabrina the Teenage Witch,
performing "Sk8er Boi" with her band.
Media image: Until 2003, Lavigne traveled with a
bag full of about thirty neckties. Some of them she
bought, and the rest she took from her father; some were
sent to her by fans. Lavigne stopped wearing neckties in
2003 because she was upset at the media references to
her style overshadowing her music.
The classification of Lavigne's style of music has been
debated. All Music Guide and other reviewers consider
her "teen pop" or "adult/alternative
pop-rock". It is questioned whether her music style
is punk. The reason for the confusion appears to be for
her punk-like appearance early in her career, along with
statements made by the songstress herself that she is
"as punk as they come". However, there have
been several occasions where she has stated "I'm
not punk." Lavigne told Vainquer Magazine in April
2005 that she considered her music to be pop rock.
Though she cites many early punk bands and figures as
influences (most notably Sid Vicious), her music has
little in common with 1970s punk.
Lavigne spoke about her new look in a September 2006
interview. She explains, "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."
On September 26, 2006, Lavigne was caught spitting on
paparazzi photographer's face outside Hyde nightclub in
Los Angeles after being caught kissing her husband
Deryck Whibley in her car. On September 27, 2006, her
twenty-second birthday, Lavigne exited a club with her
husband and a few friends only to find herself
surrounded by paparazzi and autograph-seekers. She gave
her autograph along with some profanity to the seekers.
After she got into her car, she leaned out the window
and spat on the camera lens of the nearest photographer.
Lavigne later issued a public apology for spitting on
the photographers, claiming "It's trying at best
dealing with their insistent intrusions. I meant no
offense to my fans, whose relationship I truly
value." No detailed explanation was offered for the
incident.
Avril also appeared to pose topless in the June 2007
issue of US magazine, Blender. She later revealed to MTV
that she was actually wearing a tubetop and the magazine
just covered it with the banner to make her look
topless.
Personal life: It has been revealed that Lavigne
is a vegetarian. In the January 2003 issue of Seventeen
magazine, she admitted to "snagging a bite of
Matt's cheeseburgers every now and again." Also in
a recent interview, she said she prefers not to eat
meat, but will not say she's a vegetarian "in case
anyone caught her eating meat". In an interview
with the magazine live, it is stated: "It goes
without saying that Lavigne is a vegetarian".
As a teenager she would hang out at the La Pizzeria
restaurant in Napanee, Ontario. In her Under My Skin
Bonez Documentary, she has stated that pizza with olive
toppings is her favourite food, although she doesn't eat
it too much because pizza is detrimental to her voice.
Since her rise to fame, the restaurant has named a pizza
after Lavigne that contains her favourite toppings and
there is a guest book for fans to sign that Lavigne
picks up when she visits friends and family in her home
town.
Lavigne has a star tattooed on the inside of her left
wrist that matches the style of the one used for her
first album artwork. It was created at the same time as
friend and musical associate Ben Moody's identical
tattoo. In late 2004, she had a small pink heart-shaped
tattoo featuring the letter 'D' applied to her right
wrist — thought to be a reference to husband Deryck
Whibley, with whom she has bought a house in Bel-Air,
previously owned by another famous couple: Travis Barker
and Shanna Moakler.
Lavigne was romantically linked to her former guitarist
Jesse Colburn, but despite rumors, she did not have a
relationship with another former guitarist, Evan
Taubenfeld. However, Taubenfeld still considers Lavigne
his "dearest friend in the whole world" as
said on a recent Q&A on his band's official website.
In a J-14 magazine from 2004, she talks about her first
kiss being when she was fourteen years old. In M
magazine in 2003, an article was published about an
ex-boyfriend selling her love letters on eBay.
In February 2004, she began dating fellow Canadian
singer Deryck Whibley, the lead singer/guitarist of pop
punk band Sum 41. On June 27, 2005, Lavigne and Whibley
became engaged. Whibley proposed to Lavigne by
surprising her with a trip to Venice, a gondola ride,
and then a romantic picnic.
The couple married in a Catholic ceremony attended by
about 100 guests on July 15, 2006 at a private estate in
the California coastal city of Montecito. When asked if
they were ready for kids the couple said "not right
now but somewhere down the road."
Charities: Lavigne has been involved in a number
of charities, such as Make Some Noise, Amnesty
International, Camp Will-a-Way, Music Clearing
Minefields, U.S. Campaign for Burma, Make-a-Wish
Foundation and War Child. She has also appeared in ALDO
ads with YouthAIDS to raise money to educate people
worldwide about HIV/AIDS. ALDO sells tags featuring the
phrases "HEAR", "SEE", and
"SPEAK" and limited edition tote bags that are
now being sold at ALDO stores and online, to help fund
YouthAIDS HIV-prevention initiatives around the world.
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