Avril Ramona Lavigne is a Canadian singer and songwriter, born on September 27, 1984. She was a significant character in the pop-punk genre, helping to shape female-driven, punk-inspired pop music in the early 2000s. She has been nominated for eight Grammy Awards over the years.
Let Go (2002), her debut album, became the 21st-century best-selling record by a Canadian artist. Popular songs like Complicated and Sk8er Boi, which demonstrated a skate-punk aesthetic, caused music journals to refer to her as the “Pop-Punk Princess or Queen.”
According to a Vice December 4, 2024 article:
“The pop-rock queen is embarking on the second round of her “Greatest Hits” tour next year, with Simple Plan and Fefe Dobson as support, as well as Floridian rockers We The Kings.”
Battle with lyme disease, and 4 other lesser known facts about Avril Lavigne
1) Avril sang a chorus in 8 languages to reach global fans
The chorus of Lavigne’s song Girlfriend is sung in eight different languages.
In an article by CBC on March 9, 2007, Terry McBride, Lavigne’s manager, stated during Canadian Music Week that the singer studied other languages for hours in an attempt to perfect the diverse deliveries. Lavigne is not fluent in any other language.
In addition to English, Girlfriend‘s chorus has been recorded in Spanish, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Mandarin and Japanese for her enormous global fan base.
2) Avril Lavigne signed her first record deal at 16
Lavigne grew up mostly in Napanee, a small town of around 5,000 people, where she learned to play the guitar, wrote poetry, and socialized with the gritty kids. Some of the narrative storytelling in Let Go is influenced by the country music scene, where she first gained recognition.
After winning a radio competition in her early teens, she even shared the stage with Shania Twain. At 16, she signed with Arista Records and relocated to California.
