Sunday, July 8, 2007

Avril Lavigne - one of the most important Canadians in Hollywood



A very famous and celebrated artist, especially among younger women is the punkmusician Avril Lavigne. It has been a lot reported about her the last weeks in Swedish media.

She was in Sweden in June-July.

As a modern artist she has a place at MySpace, of course. She has been there since december 2004.

She is Canadian and Canadian Business Magazine has ranked her the seventh most powerful Canadian in Hollywood.

Some background facts about her from Wikipedia:
Avril Lavigne was born in Belleville, Ontario, Canada, to a French-born father, John, and a Franco-Ontarian mother, Judy. Both parents are Catholic and she had a Catholic upbringing. Avril's musical talent was first spotted at the age of two when her mother says Avril began singing along with her on church songs. The family moved to Napanee, Ontario, when Lavigne was five years old.

In 1998, Lavigne won a competition to sing with fellow Canadian singer Shania Twain on her first major concert tour. She appeared alongside Twain at her concert in Ottawa, appearing on stage to sing "What Made You Say That".

She was discovered by her first professional manager, Cliff Fabri, while singing country covers at a Chapters bookstore in Kingston, Ontario. During a performance with the Lennox Community Theatre, Lavigne was spotted by local folk singer Steve Medd (a relation of the influential Canadian journalist, Ben Medd), who invited her to sing on his song "Touch the Sky" for his 1999 album Quinte Spirit. She also sang on "Temple of Life" and "Two Rivers" for his follow up album, My Window to You, in 2000.

At the age of sixteen she was signed by Ken Krongard, the artists-and-repertoire (A&R) representative of Arista Records, who invited the head of Arista, Antonio "L.A." Reid, to hear her sing at the New York City studio of producer Peter Zizzo. She then completed work on her first album.


Here is her official homepage.






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1 comment:

Anonymous said...

maste kolla:)