Avril Ramona Lavigne

Avril Lavigne was born on September 27, in Ontario (Belleville, to be precise), Canada. She achieved star status in her career as a singer. Although it is said that she moved to Manhattan at the age of 16, to start her debut album, the actual story is different. She came to Manhattan to participate in an All-Station Radio Contest. Her hit-single "Complicated", which is written by her, won her the chance to sing with the then sensation, Shania Twain. The listeners went ga-ga over the singer after listening to Complicated.

At the age of 18, she was finally signed by Arista Records Inc. to release her debut album "LET-GO". Arista not only gave her the freedom to write her songs but also encouraged her to go on with what she thought was right. In 2002, when her album Let-Go was released, singles like "Complicated" and "Skater boy" topped the International charts for almost 5 consecutive weeks. 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 earn herself a Break-Through. Complicated earned her 5 grammy nominations, MTV Music Awards, MTV Music European Awards, Video Music Awards and many more. Later in 2005, she came out with another BANG-ON album titled "UNDER MY SKIN" which included the hit-singles My Happy-Ending and Fall To pieces. Moving on with her singing career and passion for singing, She launched "THE BEST DAMN THING". This album of hers turned out to be the most awaited album of the year 2007. She always came up with something new and this time it was her single Girlfriend. The song made crazy fans for itself! So much that Avril announced her very first tour- THE BEST DAMN THING TOUR. She quoted- "I will leave no place around this world, undone with my concert".

She showed extreme talent in the genres of music in which not many female artists could turn out to be good at, namely, Pop Rock, Punk Rock, Rock and Grunge Pop. Her career reached the Zenith's height after she won (or was nominated for) the following awards:

* New artist in a Video (VMA) for Complicated.

* Let-Go, Best-Selling album of the year 2002.

*Favourite Female Singer at the 18th Annual Kid's Choice Awards.

* 3 Juno Awards- Fan Choice Award, Artist of the year and Pop-Album Of the year.

* #1 in Teen People's Hot Top 21 under 21 Poll.

The best part about her is that she writes about her life experiences. All her songs have feelings embedded in them. She was quoted saying "If you don't like me for who I am, then you don't like me for who I am and all you gonna get is WHO I AM! She is an ultimate singer with not just an amazin voice but also killer looks.