Avril Ramona Lavigne sa
narodila pre šialenosti. Už ako dieťa chcela byť vždy stredobodom
pozornosti. Narodila sa v Belleville, Ontario (Kanada) 27. 9. 1984 v znamení
váhy , jej výška je 157 cm a váha 54 kg. Jej farba očí je modro-zelená ,
vlasy blond.Má mladšiu sestru Mitchelle a staršieho brata Mathewa , otca
Johna a mamu Judy. V meste, v ktorom prežila väčšinu svojho života -
Napanee, Ontario - , nikto netušil, že by sa mohla niekedy zrodiť nejaká
hviezda. "Vždy som vedela, že budem robiť to, čo chcem" hovorí, "spomínam
si, že keď som bola mladšia, stála som na svojej posteli akoby na javisku,
spievala som z plných pľúc a okolo seba som si predstavovala tisíce ľudí."
Spievať začínala v kostole a vtedy si ju všimli hľadači talentov z Arista
Records a odišla do New Yorku. Zoznámila sa s manažérom Aristy - Antoniom
L.A. Reidom - ktorý sa jej ujal. ,,Každé dospievajúce dievča by chcelo
vyzerať ako Britney, no s Avril je to presne naopak. Mnohé dievčatá sú ako
ona.V 16-tich sa presťahovala na Manhattan a začala pracovať na svojom
debutovom albume. Ponorila sa do toho naplno. "Milujem písanie" vysvetľuje,
"keď som bola v depresiách a chcela som preč, vzala som si gitaru a začala
som na ňu hrať. Gitara bola občas ako môj terapeut." Avril lietala medzi
štúdiom a bytom na Manhattane. "Začala som pracovať z mnohými ľuďmi, ale
necítila som, že by ma piesne reprezentovali. Preto som začala písať svoje
piesne sama. Chcela som robiť hudbu sama. Boli to veľmi ťažké časy." Los
Angeles dal Avril čerstvý vzduch, ktorý už potrebovala. Tu sa zoznámila s
producentom a textárom Clifom Magnessom. "Páčil sa mi našla som konečne
chlapca pre seba" bola nadšená. "Bol to zároveň aj môj sprievodca po L.A.,
dobre sme si rozumeli." Niektoré piesne do albumu Let Go boli práve od neho.
Hneď potom sa Avril zoznámila s Network Management, u ktorých začínali Dido,
Coldplay a SUM 41. Teraz je album konečne na svete! Avril má naozaj radosť a
usporiadáva turné aj so svojou skupinou, ktorá je zložená zo sk8 punkových
chlapcov. "Bola som vždycky ako chlapec a stále sa tak aj cítim. Nikdy som
nemala žiadne naozajstné kamarátky. V zime som hrala hokej a v lete som zasa
hrala basketbal.
"Prichádzam, očisťujem svoju myseľ, píšem čo cítim, nezaujíma ma, či si
myslia ostatní" hovorí Avril. "Obliekam sa ako chcem, robím to čo chcem a
spievam ako chcem." Nemohla som už ďalej čakať. Chcem, aby ľudia poznali
moju hudbu, ktorá je ozajstná a priamo z môjho srdca." Stala sa výnimočnou
osobou, ktorá začala ľudí oslňovať svojim hlasom, charakterom a vlastným
štýlom! Chcem, aby ma ľudia rešpektovali." Avril nemá rada, keď ju volajú
punkerkou. ,, Punkeri nevystupujú na MTV. "Mnohí neprajníci však tvrdili, že
úspech Avril spočíva len v jednom úspešnom albume. Avril však v roku 2004
vydala svoj druhý album s názvom "Under
My
Skin"
. ,,Myslím, že som prešla veľkou zmenou"
. ,,Pri nahrávaní albumu som mala nad všetkým prehľad a s
výsledkom som náramne spokojná." Tretí album by sa mal na trhu objaviť
17.apríla
2007. Avril Lavigne chce pokračovať
v zabehnutých šľapajách, no trošku pritvrdiť a
písať piesne pozitívne, pretože prežíva obdobie plné
krásnych zmien...
ENGLISH
(official biography)
Avril Lavigne is a girl
who knows what she wants. And when it came to writing her eagerly awaited
third album, The Best Damn Thing, she had one very clear goal in mind: To
make it fun. While touring in 2004 for her last album, Under My Skin, which
sold more than 8 million copies worldwide, the Canadian-born punk-pop dynamo
found that her favorite songs to play were the faster, more up-tempo
songs—so she resolved to make a record that captured the kind of
high-spirited, full-throttle energy that she loved to unleash on-stage.
The Best Damn Thing is brimming with gutsy guitar riffs, instantaneously
catchy sing-along party-starting choruses, power pop punk, and rebellious
rock ’n’ roll attitude. It’s a marked departure from the darker, more
introspective tone of Under My Skin—and on tracks such as the defiant,
riotous, kiss-off-to-a-cheating-boyfriend “Everything Back But You,” Avril
took pleasure in creating scenarios for her lyrics that weren’t, as she
says, “straight out of my diary.” The result is a collection of songs that
reveal just how far she’s evolved as a songwriter and singer, from the
sassy, empowering “I Can Do Better” (one of Avril’s personal favorites) to
the irrepressible first single “Girlfriend”—which unexpectedly combines a
hip-hop beat with beefy power chords, hand-claps, and a chanted
girl-group-style chorus with a punk rock twist—to the emotional ballad “Keep
Holding On,” which she wrote at the request of 20th Century Fox for the
studio’s fantasy/adventure film Eragon.
As an artist with a keen and well-trained ear for powerful, magnetic pop
melodies, Avril was intensely involved in every aspect of The Best Damn
Thing’s creation: From being fiercely independent while writing her own
songs (“I didn’t have an A&R guy on this record,” she emphasizes. “I knew
exactly how I wanted it to sound”), to choosing her producers and musical
collaborators, to obsessively going back and tweaking guitar tones and
drumbeats in the studio, she worked hard to ensure that it would be her best
record yet.
The album features the production skills of Butch Walker (who has also
produced The Donnas, American Hi-Fi, and Avril’s second album, Under My
Skin), Dr. Luke (Pink, Lady Sovereign), Rob Cavallo (Green Day, My Chemical
Romance, Goo Goo Dolls), and her husband Deryck Whibley (from Sum 41). The
process turned out to be a blast: “I didn’t know making a record could be so
fun,” she says. She was eager to work with her good friend Butch again, as
she says, “What’s great about Butch is that he’s a talented artist as well
as being an incredible producer.” And about collaborating with Dr. Luke, she
adds, “Luke and I had a really good connection and chemistry.” The relaxed
atmosphere in the studio comes across in the songs themselves—Avril’s
laughter rings out in “I Can Do Better,” and in “Girlfriend” you can hear
her, she says, “playing a beer bottle” (by blowing into it) in the last few
choruses.
Four of the songs on The Best Damn Thing—“Innocence,” “Hot, “One of Those
Girls,” and “Contagious”—were co-written with Avril’s former bandmate Evan
Taubenfeld. “Evan is one of my best friends in the world,” she says,
affectionately. “He’s been with me since day one”.
Of course, all of the spiky, buoyant energy that drives the album will come
to life in the live show that Avril is planning for her tour later this
year—she has assembled a new band, and is even bringing along two dancers
(“I’m doing choreographed dancing for the first time ever,” she grins. “It’s
going to be such a blast”).
A great deal has happened in Avril Lavigne’s life since she released her
debut album, Let Go, in 2002, when she was 17 years old. That album snagged
8 Grammy nominations and four Juno Awards (including Album of the Year and
New Artist of the Year), spawned the anthemic hit singles “Complicated,”
“Sk8ter Boy,” and “I’m With You,” and sold more than 16 million copies
world-wide. Under My Skin cemented the Napanee, Ontario native’s
superstardom, entering U.S., Canadian, and U.K. charts at #1, unleashing
smash singles “Don’t Tell Me” and “My Happy Ending,” and collecting three
more Juno Awards along the way.
In 2006, Avril married Sum 41’s Deryck Whibley and branched out into acting,
appearing in Richard Linklater’s Fast Food Nation and lending her voice to
Dreamworks’ animated film Over the Hedge.
She may be a bit more sophisticated these days, but she’s still peerless,
and still fearless. The Best Damn Thing is Avril Lavigne at a new stage in
her life; she’s passed through the shadows of teen angst and emerged in a
spotlight, ready to have fun and rock out and yes, even dance. It is, just
as she intended, the best damn thing she’s ever done.