With more than two decades of career on the clock, Avril Lavigne marked the beginning of the 2000s with her pop punk sounds. But what becomes of the 37-year-old singer?
To mark the 20th anniversary of let’s gothe album that launched his career, April Lavigne unveiled its star on the famous Hollywood Boulevard, in Los Angeles, on August 31st. A consecration for the 37-year-old singer who marked the beginning of the 2000s with his pop rock songs, such as “Complicated” or “Sk8er Boi”. If the author-composer and performer has been more discreet in recent years, she has not neglected the music for all that. A look back at the career of the most punk of pop stars.
It was at the age of 12 thatApril Lavigne wrote his first songs in his hometown of Napanee, a small town in Ontario, Canada. precocious child, she decided to move to Manhattan, then to Los Angeles to find a place in the music industry. It was done in June 2002, with the release of let’s gowhich sold nearly twenty million copies. At only 19, she is once again enjoying success with her second album Under My Skin. It is from that moment that movie studios are starting to take an interest in her. The singer performs in The Flockalongside Richard Gere and Claire Danes, and in Fast Food Nation by Richard Linklater. If the first is a failure at the box office, the second meets with success as soon as it is released, in 2006. The same year, April Lavigne marry with Deryck Whibleylead singer of Sum 41. They divorced in 2009, after six years together..
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Divorce and controversy
After his third album The Best Damn Thingwhich met with great success in 2007, in particular thanks to the planetary hit “Girlfriend”, April Lavigne has difficulties with the next one, the release of which will be constantly postponed by his record company. Released in March 2011, Goodbye Lullaby again met with great success with more than 4 million copies sold. It was at this time thatshe flies to Paris to study French, his father’s mother tongue. She even decides to celebrate her second marriage with Chad Kroeger, the leader of Nickelback, at the Château de la Napoule, in the Alpes-Maritimes in 2013. They will stay together for two years. His fifth album, released in November 2013, was less appealing, especially to the specialized press, which calls her “Hello Kitty” music video “stereotype” and “racist”. Accusations strongly denied by April Lavigne, who says he loves Japan and spends a lot of time there. The clip is even removed from YouTube for a few hours, before being re-uploaded.
Avril Lavigne, the comeback
In 2015, she gave an interview to Peoplein which she reveals to be suffering from Lyme diseasewhich would explain his media discretion in recent years. “I thought I was dying. I sometimes couldn’t shower for a whole week because I couldn’t stand, like my whole life was pumped“, she told the magazine. She talks about this fight in her sixth album Head Above Waterreleased in February 2019. Like many artists, his tour is interrupted due to the health crisis. In October 2021, she collaborated with Willow, the new face of pop punk, on her title “GROW”, which marks Avril Lavigne’s return to her first love. Highly anticipated, sour new album Love Sux is released on February 25, 2022. A few months later, the 37-year-old singer announces her engagement to musician Mod Sun, this time again in Paris.