Biography

Avril Lavigne

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Avril Lavigne was born on September 27, 1984 in Belleville, Ontario, Canada, to Judith-Rosanne (Loshaw) and Jean-Claude Joseph Lavigne. Her ancestry is French-Canadian, Polish, English, Irish, and Scottish. When she was five, her family moved to Napanee, Ontario, where she spent most of her youth. In elementary school, she was diagnosed with ADHD and was often expelled from class for misbehaving and sometimes started fights with other children. She played hockey from a young age, in the boys team. To support her musical interests, her father bought her a microphone, a drum kit, a keyboard, and several guitars, and converted their basement into a studio. At sixteen, she moved to Manhattan and began work on her debut album. She dropped out of high school after the 11th grade when she secured a record deal. When Avril was almost 18, she released "Complicated" from her debut album titled: "Let Go," which went 6x platinum. As a petite skater girl from a small town, Avril has shown she is independent, full of confidence and determination, providing a good combination to make "Complicated" and Avril a musical breakthrough. "Complicated" went to number #1 on Billboards Top 100 while also earning her 5 Grammy nominations, MTV music awards, MTV European music awards and many more.
- IMDb mini biography by: Stephanie Koston

Her debut studio album "Let Go" (2002) is the best-selling album of the 21st century by a Canadian artist. This released the successful singles "Complicated" and "Sk8er Boi", which emphasized a skate punk persona and earned her the title "Pop-Punk Queen".
Her accolades include eight Grammy Award nominations.
She was awarded the CM (Member of the Order of Canada) on June 21, 2024 from the Canadian Governor General for her services to music. She is a singer-songwriter in Belleville, Ontario, Canada. She resides in Malibu, California, United States of America.
She was awarded a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for Recording at 6212 Hollywood Boulevard in Hollywood, California on August 31, 2022. Singer-songwriter Colson Baker was a guest speaker at the ceremony.
She was awarded a star on Canada's Walk of Fame in Toronto, Ontario in 2023.

I liked being a minor because you can't get into trouble. Now I just have to try and behave myself.
I might look like a tough chick--and I am--but I'm also a hopeless romantic inside.
Why should I care what other people think of me? I am who I am. And who I wanna be.
I'd like to be a little more hard-rocking on my next album. But I hate the whole label thing.
People ask me if I regret wasting my last teen years on becoming a singer. You know something? I don't. Because singing is my life. When and if you want something so badly you'll see. I mean, I'm just so blessed to be doing what I love to do and to have been given this opportunity. I thank God because there are so many more talented people out there that will never even come close to getting a record deal.