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Avril Lavigne: Arista Records
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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.
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The first of such initiatives, created in collaboration with RCA Records artist Avril Lavigne, is a mobile site called Avril TV (www.mobitv.com/avril). The site is designed to provide access to all things Avril, including her entire video library and made-for-mobile versions of Avril's Make 5 Wishes comic book released along with her album on April 17th.* Avril TV content is available through participating US carriers via video enabled phones, with a limited content package available to WAP enabled phone users.
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With her new recording contract, Avril Lavigne moved to New York City. She was surrounded by some of the top songwriters and producers in the music business. Unfortunately, she was disappointed with her co-songwriters. Lavigne moved to Los Angeles and connected with Cliff Magness and the Matrix songwriting team. They helped put together the album Let Go.
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Wild child Avril Lavigne hit big in summer 2002 with her spiky-fun debut song, "Complicated," shifting pop music into a different direction. Lavigne, who was 17 at the time, didn't seem concerned with the glamour of the TRL-dominated pop world and such confidence allowed her star power to soar. The middle of three children in small-town Napanee, Ontario, Lavigne's rock ambitions were noticeable around age two. By her early teens, she was already writing songs and playing guitar. The church choir, local festivals, and county fairs ... allowed Lavigne to get her voice heard, and luckily, Arista Records main man Antonio "L.A." Reid was listening.
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Avril Lavigne was born in Belleville, Ontario on September 27, 1984 to a devout Christian family, and her love of music was noticed by her family when she was 2 and would sing along to church songs. In 1998 she won a contest to sing with Shania Twain, after which she covered several country songs up to the point that she was discovered. At the age of sixteen she was signed by Ken Krongard, the artists-and-repertoire 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.
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Avril Lavigne was born in Napanee, Ontario and started out on the path towards rock stardom at the young age of two. She got her music noticed performing at the local festivals when she was in her early teens and at 16 Arista Records offered her a deal. Her debut album Let Go did well, but Lavigne's second album Under My Skin released in 2004 topped the charts and produced the number one hit "My Happy Ending." To hear hits like this one and many more, get tickets to see Avril Lavigne live.
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