Singing career

In November 2000, Ken Kongard, an A&R representative, invited Antonio "L.A." Reid, head of Arista Records at the time, to hear Lavigne sing for 15 minutes at a producer Peter Zizzo's Manhattan studio. He was so impressed he immediately signed her to Arista with a deal worth $1.25million for two albums and a extra $900,000 for a publishing advance. After making an album she felt a little weird at her school so she dropped out to focus on her singing career. she still had the recording deal.for a year, Lavigne and Arista had Matrix, and the ensuring album became "let go". Avril went on to cell over 30 million copes of her album world wide one of the top selling artist who realised albums in the u.s, with over 10.2 million copies. she was one of the top ten artist in 2000. allot of artist had inspired her to write new songs.her albums were let go were released in 2002, under my skin released in 2004, the best dam thing released in 20o6 and many more.