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Born in the small town of Napanee Ontario (5000 residents)
in 1985 Avril Lavigne stood out from the crowd at an early
age. First honing her musical talents in the church choir,
she graduated onto country music competitions and eventually
to an amount of stardom when she won a competition in
a radio contest that allowed her to travel to Ontario
and sing with Country legend Shania Twain!Despite this
early success, Avril continued her Napanee school career
and at the same time developed her other musical talents
(particularly the guitar). Over the next couple of years
she tried to make the US recording industry sit up and
take notice, but it wasn't until she was in New York at
age 16 that she was finally signed to Arista records when
an Arista employee was so impressed that he insisted that
he return with his CEO to hear Avril sing. |
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