Bio

Avril Ramona Lavigne ; born 27 September 1984) is a Canadian singer-songwriter, designer, actress and philanthropist. She was born in Belleville, Ontario, however spent the majority of her youth within the small town, Napanee, Ontario. By the age of 15, she had appeared on stage with Shania Twain, and by 16, Lavigne had signed a recording contract with Arista, now RCA Records. Record government Antonio "L.A." Reid provided her a two-album deal worth greater than $2 million. When she was 17 years outdated, Lavigne broke onto the music scene together with her debut album, Let Go, launched in 2002.

Let Go made Lavigne the youngest feminine soloist to succeed in 1 in the UK, and the album was licensed four-times platinum by the Recording Trade Affiliation of America. As of 2009, over sixteen million copies had been bought worldwide, greater than 6 million of which have been offered in the United States. Her breakthrough single, "Difficult", peaked at 1 in many nations world wide, as did the album Let Go. Her second album, Under My Skin, was launched in 2004 and was her first album to peak at 1 on the U.S. Billboard 200 , finally selling more than 10 million copies worldwide. The Greatest Rattling Factor, Lavigne’s third album, was launched in 2007. This album gave Lavigne her third 1 album in the UK Albums Chart and featured her first U.S. Billboard Scorching 100 single, "Girlfriend". Lavigne has scored a total of five 1 singles worldwide, together with "Complicated", "Sk8er Boi", "I am With You", "My Completely happy Ending" and "Girlfriend". Lavigne has bought more than 30 million copies of her albums worldwide and is at the moment one of many top-selling artists releasing albums in the U.S., with over 10.25 million copies licensed by the RIAA. Billboard named Lavigne the ten pop artist in the "Better of the 2000s" chart, and he or she was listed as the twenty eighth total finest act of the decade primarily based on album sales, chart success, and cultural relativity in the U.S. Her fourth studio album, Goodbye Lullaby, can be released in March 2011, with the primary single to be launched in January.

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