Her Beginnings
This young Canadian was born on September 27, 1984 in a 5,000 population town called Napanee, which is located in Ontario, Canada. Avril Lavigne (Av-reel Lah-veen) was an aspiring young seventeen-year-old who knew from day one that she would be famous. As the middle child, she always tried to grab the attention when it wasn't on her. She was in many talent shows as a child. She even sang on-stage She got her first guitar at a young age. She broke out of Napanee, Ontario when she was 16. She had been writing her own songs ever since she got her first guitar and has been skateboarding ever since she was 14. While she was in New York, she got signed to Arista Records by L.A Reid.

She Discovered Herself "I don't like it when people say that Antonio "L.A" Reid discovered me. I discovered myself." Avril says. It pisses her off if anyone says something about L.A discovering her. This eighteen year old is very unique. She wrote every single one of her songs. "Everytime I got home, I went to my guitar and wrote a song about what happened to me that day. I don't care if nobody cares because it's the way I'm feeling and that's what I'm going to write about." Avril says, about the inspiration for her songs. That's what makes Avril so unique. She writes her own songs and she refuses to do something that she doesn't want to do. For instance, take a photo shoot. "At one photo shoot, they tried to glam me all up and I didn't like it. They just wouldn't listen to me." she says.

Miss Popular She always writes about how she feels. Various critics have praised her for her songs, saying that they sounded "mature". Her video, "Complicated" won her a MTV Video Music Award for Best New Artist in a Video in 2002. Her popularity has quickly spread from Canada to the US and even all the way to Australia. She tries to stay true to herself. Being surrounded by adults all the time will definitely change you, but even in a business where you're only 18, she's managed to do that. "If anybody tries to kiss my butt," she says sweetly, "I'll just tell them, 'Shut the hell up.'"