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Avril Ramona Lavigne (
pronunciation: /ˈævrɨl ləˈviːn/;
AV-ril lə-VEEN; born 27 September 1984) is a Canadian
singer-songwriter. She was born in
Belleville,
Ontario, but spent most of her youth in the small town of
Napanee. By the age of 15, she had appeared on stage with
Shania Twain; by 16, she had signed a two-album recording contract with
Arista Records worth more than $2 million. In 2002, when she was 17 years old, Lavigne broke onto the music scene with her debut album
Let Go.
Let Go made Lavigne the youngest female soloist to reach No. 1 in the UK, and the album was certified
four-times platinum by the
Recording Industry Association of America. By 2009, over 16 million copies had been sold worldwide. Her breakthrough single, "
Complicated", peaked at No. 1 in many countries around the world, as did the album
Let Go. Her second album,
Under My Skin, was released in 2004 and was her first album to peak at No. 1 on the U.S.
Billboard 200, eventually selling more than 10 million copies worldwide.
The Best Damn Thing, Lavigne’s third album, was released in 2007, becoming her third No. 1 album in the
UK Albums Chart and featuring her first U.S.
Billboard Hot 100 No. 1 single, "
Girlfriend". Lavigne has scored six number-one singles worldwide, including "Complicated", "
Sk8er Boi", "
I'm with You", "
My Happy Ending", "
Nobody's Home",
and "Girlfriend". With more than 30 million copies of her albums sold
worldwide, Lavigne is one of the top-selling artists releasing albums in
the U.S., with over 10.25 million copies certified by the RIAA. Her
fourth studio album,
Goodbye Lullaby, was released in March 2011.
Goodbye Lullaby gave Lavigne her fourth top 10 album on the U.S.
Billboard 200 and the UK Albums Chart and her third No. 1 album in both Japan and Australia. Three months after the release of
Goodbye Lullaby, Lavigne began work on her fifth album, which will be released on
Epic Records following her departure from
RCA Records.