When you grow up in a rural Canadian town with nothing much to do but sing in the church gospel choir and get bored at school, you're gonna want to rock sometimes. Avril Lavigne wanted to do more than just lip-synch in front of a mirror with a hairbrush, though.
In fact, she was dead sure she was going to do more than just fake it. The year-old music rookie from the hinterlands even ripped a page straight out of Pink's book of success when she began peddling her songs to record labels. They began to pitch me other people's songs, but I just couldn't sing [them]. The year-old pop-punk princess, who is scheduled for three shows over the next two weeks, took a break to tell us what happens when the gloves come off. I would watch his games while wearing his jersey and cheering on the side with pompoms.
Having him to look up to made me to want play sports. AL: I played ice hockey on a team; street hockey for fun. I did Novice, Atom, Pee Wee ice hockey.
When I got to Pee Wee at age 10, I started playing with the boys. I [earned] MVP honors two years in a row as a right wing. One year, we won a tournament and I got a purple trophy for my pitching. I still have it in my bedroom trunk. AL: I worked on my wrist shot and slap shot a lot.
One time I had a breakaway in a game and scored. My dad caught it on tape. That was probably my big shining moment. For more than a decade, Lavigne has enjoyed huge success with her punk-influenced pop sound. She has also branched out in new directions over the years, including starting her own fashion line. Lavigne sang all the time as a child, much to the chagrin of her two siblings. Raised by deeply religious parents, she first started performing in church choirs.
Lavigne learned to play the guitar and began composing her own music as a teenager. At first, she reportedly focused on country music, eventually changing her tune. In , Lavigne released her first album, Let Go.
She scored a No. In addition to her music, Lavigne was deemed a style icon; fans mimicked Lavigne's multicolored hair and copied her skate-punk fashions. Lavigne's music took a more contemplative turn with 's Under My Skin , which did not fare as well as her first album. In , she married fellow musician Deryck Whibley, of Canadian pop-punk band Sum Returning to her more up-tempo and exuberant pop style, Lavigne released The Best Damn Thing in She landed a Top 10 hit with the infectious "Girlfriend.
On next album, Goodbye Lullaby , Lavigne looked at love from different stages, from joyful togetherness to the pain of breaking up. The subject matter came as no surprise; between the release of The Best Damn Thing and her next record, Lavigne and Whibley had divorced. The split was amicable enough, however, for the pair to work together on Goodbye Lullaby ; Whibley served as a producer on several of the album's songs. Not straying too far from her power-pop roots, Lavigne used the incredibly hooky hit "What the Hell" as the album's first single.
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