Birth name and breakthrough

The Canadian Encyclopedia and Britannica list Avril Ramona Lavigne with the Belleville birth date (Canadian Encyclopedia; Biography.com). She uses her birth name professionally; Ramona is her middle name. A church and fairground singer as a teen, she signed a major-label deal and released Let Go (2002).

Singles "Complicated," "Sk8er Boi," and "I'm With You" made her a defining early-2000s pop-punk crossover star worldwide.

Later albums and public life

Follow-ups including Under My Skin, The Best Damn Thing (home to "Girlfriend"), and later releases kept her on charts. She has discussed Lyme disease and health struggles in interviews covered by mainstream press. Marriages to Deryck Whibley and Chad Kroeger ended in divorce; she later remarried. She continues to tour and record, with anniversary editions of Let Go underscoring the debut's lasting footprint (Canadian Encyclopedia; Biography.com).

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