Avril Lavigne

Born September 27, 1984 in the town of Napanee, Canada, from small Avril Ramona Lavigne was connected with the music, singing in choirs (mainly churches) and small festivals. At age 12 she composed the first chords on the guitar, at the age of 14 wrote his first song which was called Can not Stop Thinking About You. Although adolescence Avril won a competition to sing with the pop star Shania Twain. At 16 years he moved to New York at the request of the entrepreneur Cliff Fabri who has a hearing with one of the directors of the Artist. After a hearing of only 15 minutes Avril has a contract for the launch of his CD. It then began to work with some composers, but nothing was done because Avril wanted something more rock, country ballads and not expect the executives of the artist. She began to take influences from artists such as Alanis Morissette, Goo Goo Dolls and Blink 182. It is then moved to Los Angeles to work with a group of composers known as The Matrix and clif Magness. Let Go, her debut album was released in the June 2002 and days after the single was released that soon Complicated made success on MTV. In August Avril artist wins prize for disclosure on the Video Music Awards in 2002. In September Let Go won triple platinum disc and bassist leaves London for the entry of Charles Moniz. Sk8er Boy's second single is released. In early 2003 Lavigne alerts to receive 5 Grammy. In February the disc Let Go won five times platinum and is launched to name one single I'm With You Losing Grip in March and is also released as singles (the last of the album Let Go). In 2003 Lavigne releases her first DVD titled My World with many songs including some covers and Knockin 'On Heaven's Door by Bob Dylan and Metallica's Fuel, and begin recording his new CD entitled Under My Skin that was launched in 2004 and proved that Lavigne was not only a "summer hit" as many thought. Compositions worked better, more mature lyrics and a velvety voice of his show that Lavigne would pique very strong candidate and would be a pop icon for the beginning of the millennium. Songs like Take Me Away, Do not Tell Me (the first single cd) and together show that. Today we can say that Lavigne ensure more than its 15 minutes of fame of artists and creations generated by major record labels to sell cds pop can make sure from time to time.