Avril Ramona Lavigne Biography
(1984-)
Avril Lavigne is a singer. She was born September 27, 1984 as Avril Ramona Lavigne in Belleville, Ontario, Canada. Raised in a strict Christian household, Avril grew up singing in the church choir and playing guitar. She was discovered singing country covers in Kingston, Ontario, and signed with Arista Records soon after, releasing her first album, Let Go, in 2002. A mixture of pop and punk, the record sold 15 million copies worldwide, thanks to the hugely popular single, “Complicated.” Her second album, Under My Skin, was released in 2004, and she subsequently won two World Music Awards for World's Best Pop/Rock Artist and World's Best Selling Canadian Artist.
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Avril has intense, passionate loves and hates and is a jealously loyal and protective friend - or a fearsome foe. Avril Lavigne has a nasty habit of holding on to past hurts, resentments, and guilt - and to keep such feelings to herself. It is important for Avril Lavigne to learn to forgive and let go, as well as to express her feelings openly and directly, rather than hiding or repressing them.
She is not content with superficial appearances and is always probing beneath the surface of things for hidden motives. Avril Lavigne has a great deal of emotional depth.
Lavigne gets a lot of emotional fulfillment through her involvement in groups, clubs, organizations, community activities, or a network of close friends who support and care for her. Avril Lavigne makes friends her family, and she feels a close kinship with people who share some ideals or beliefs that she holds dear. Avril Lavigne needs close relationships with people outside of her physical family.
Serious and emotionally reserved, Avril Lavigne was probably never an exuberant, playful child, and she rarely expresses herself in a spontaneous, childlike manner. She is cautious about letting others get close to her and sometimes withdraws from people altogether. At times, even when Avril Lavigne is with people, she feels lonely or isolated. Learning to appreciate her own company and to find satisfying solitary activities is essential to Avril's emotional well-being.
Her thinking and acting are strongly influenced by her feelings. Avril has great mental energy, is somewhat restless, curious and impatient, and at times she may need to slow down. Avril Lavigne loves debate and argument and also has good writing ability.
Her mind is very impressionable and sometimes her imagination could be a little misguided. Avril Lavigne loves to daydream and to live in her own world of fantasies. But she is receptive and has a sympathetic understanding of others.
Avril Lavigne has a cheerful temperament and a harmonious disposition. Because of her easy personality, Lavigne gets along easily with others. Home and family relationships are precious to Avril and her home is likely to be large and lavish.
In love relationships, Avril Lavigne desires a deep, intense, passionate union with her beloved and forms very strong emotional bonds and attachments. Avril "marries" the person she loves at a very deep emotional level, and is often extremely possessive and jealous of any threat to that union. Lavigne can be very demanding with her love partner. Avril Lavigne tends to be somewhat suspicious of even platonic, friendly relationships her partner has. If she is ever betrayed, Avril Lavigne is capable of hating with as much force and intensity as she once loved. She is attracted to people who have an aura of mystery about them.
Lavigne is a very sociable, congenial person and she wilts very quickly without relationships with good friends and people to share good times with. Avril Lavigne thoroughly enjoys working with others on group projects or community activities. She is quite happy when she is a part of a club, support group, or team of some sort.
Avril Lavigne loves to laugh, celebrate, and to enjoy herself with her companions. Emotionally open and easygoing, Avril considers just about anyone a friend or potential friend. Her good humor and friendliness make her quite popular and well-liked. At times, Avril Lavigne overdoes the festivities, but she rarely regrets this.
Avril Lavigne has a rich, colorful, dreamy imagination and a refined sense of beauty. Involvement in the arts, or with artistic, sensitive, or spiritually inclined people is very satisfying to her. In her friendships and romantic relationships, Lavigne tends to be unselfish, giving, and forgiving. Avril Lavigne might enjoy joining with others for charitable events or social service.
Avril has deep, compelling love feelings that seem irresistible and often irrational. Her love relationships are very passionate and intense, and Lavigne experiences both agony and ecstasy in love. Avril Lavigne is always changed in a deep, fundamental way by her love experiences, though this may come about through painful and difficult confrontations or separations. She is something of an emotional fanatic about things she cares about.
Avril has an affectionate nature and is in harmony with her environment. Charming and friendly, she is on good terms with most of the people in her sphere. Her friends and associates mean a lot to Avril Lavigne and her relationships are positive and loving.
Her artistic feeling or perception gives Avril Lavigne a strong creative potential. Avril has the ability to think in forms or shapes and also to tune into rhythms such as dancing, gymnastics and song. Her physical coordination could be excellent as well.
Avril Lavigne Biography
Avril Lavigne first appeared in summer 2002, touting an addictive debut single (the spunky pop/rock gem "Complicated") and a skatepunk image that purposely clashed with the polished glamour of mainstream pop. Lavigne, who was 17 at the time, quickly rose to teen idol status, selling several million copies of her debut album, Let Go (the best-selling album by a female artist in 2002), while inspiring a genuine fashion craze with her penchant for tank tops and neckties. As the decade progressed, so did Lavigne's marketable sound, which took a contemplative turn on the sophomore effort Under My Skin before reaching an aggressively upbeat tone for 2007's The Best Damn Thing.
Born into a devout Christian household in the small town of Napanee, Ontario, Lavigne sharpened her vocal talents in church choirs, local festivals, and county fairs. She began playing guitar and writing songs in her early teens, focusing her early efforts on country music and contributing vocals to several albums by local folk musician Steve Medd. Arista Records caught wind of the singer and brought her aboard at the age of 16, with CEO Antonio "L.A." Reid personally taking Lavigne under his wing. She quit high school, relocated to Manhattan, and set to work with a handful of prime songwriters and producers, but the partnerships only produced country songs -- not the rock music in which Lavigne had become increasingly interested. Arista relented and instead sent Lavigne to Los Angeles, where she fashioned her melodic, edgy debut alongside such writing teams as the Matrix. Released in 2002, Let Go was the polished product, and its four high-charting singles -- "Complicated," "Sk8er Boi," "I'm with You," and "Losing Grip" -- led the album to multi-platinum status within its second month of release. Lavigne became the youngest female musician ever to have a number one album in the U.K., and she supported the wildly popular disc (which eventually gained eight Grammy nominations) with a tour of Europe, Asia, North America, and Australia.
Compared with the skin-bearing antics of other teen idols -- Britney Spears chief among them -- Avril Lavigne was a new kind of superstar, one whose appeal didn't rely on suggestive music. She further distinguished herself by bypassing the assistance of professional writing teams during the creation of her second album, choosing instead to collaborate with singer/songwriter Chantal Kreviazuk, Evanescence's Ben Moody, and Evan Taubenfeld (who had previously worked with Lavigne as her touring guitarist). Released in May 2004, Under My Skin was more serious than its predecessor, dealing with such issues as premarital sex ("Don't Tell Me"), depression ("Nobody's Home"), and the death of Lavigne's grandfather ("Slipped Away"). The album debuted at number one in more than ten countries, went platinum within one month, and further established Lavigne as a pop icon. Incidentally, a song that was co-written by Lavigne and ultimately cut from the final track list -- "Breakaway" -- was later given to Kelly Clarkson, who used it as the title track and leadoff single for her Grammy-winning sophomore album.
Lavigne married her boyfriend of two years, Sum 41's Deryck Whibley, in July 2006, just one month after the animated film Over the Hedge announced her cinematic debut (Lavigne voiced the part of Heather, a hungry opossum). She also appeared in Richard Linklater's fictional adaptation of Fast Food Nation, which was released that November. Nevertheless, she spent most of the year working on her third album, enlisting former Blink-182 drummer Travis Barker to play drums and cherry-picking a variety of producers (including her husband) to helm the recording sessions. The Best Damn Thing appeared in April 2007, and its leadoff single, "Girlfriend," marked a return to the bratty, spunky punk-pop of her first album. "Girlfriend" soon became the subject of controversy as the '70s power pop band the Rubinoos sued Lavigne, claiming that her tune reworked their 1979 song "I Wanna Be Your Boyfriend." No amount of bad publicity could hurt the singer, however, as "Girlfriend" became her biggest U.S. single ever and The Best Damn Thing topped album charts worldwide.
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On the next page there's lyrics to almost all of Avril's songs like Nobody's Home and Girlfriend.
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Sorry one of the bios is wrong. One says Belleville and the other says Napanee, I'm not quite sure which is correct, but I think it's Napanee.
