For information, please visit or About Special Olympics The Foundation partners with leading charitable organizations to design and deliver programs, raise awareness and mobilize support for children and youth living with a serious illness or a disability. The Avril Lavigne Foundation R.O.C.K.S.: Respect, Opportunity, Choices, Knowledge, and Strength in support of children and youth living with serious illnesses or disabilities. The Avril Lavigne Foundation was founded by multi-platinum singer-songwriter and philanthropist Avril Lavigne in early 2010. Avril Lavigne's eponymously titled fifth studio album released in November 2013 debuting at #1 in more than a dozen countries. Avril Lavigne features the top 20 hit single "Here's To Never Growing Up," which debuted at #1 in 22 countries and was a top 10 single in 44 countries, and the smash hit duet with husband Chad Kroeger, "Let Me Go." For more information, please visit: or About The Avril Lavigne Foundation She burst onto the music scene in 2002 with the critically acclaimed Let Go featuring the smash singles "Sk8r Boi" and "Complicated." Her 2004 release, Under My Skin, debuted at #1 on the Billboard charts, as did her third album, The Best Damn Thing, which produced the irrepressible #1 single "Girlfriend" logging more than 198 million views on YouTube! Lavigne also wrote the song "Alice" for Tim Burton's critically acclaimed Disney Film "Alice in Wonderland." Lavigne's fourth studio album, Goodbye Lullaby, featured the smash-hit singles "What The Hell," and "Smile," released in 2011 to critical acclaim. Outside the recording studio, Lavigne is continuously adding pieces to her lifestyle apparel brand, Abbey Dawn has released three fragrances, Forbidden Rose, Black Star, and Wild Rose and, in early 2010, Lavigne created The Avril Lavigne Foundation.
For more information on the relay, visit And for more information about the 2015 Special Olympics World Games, visit About Avril LavigneĪvril Lavigne has made an indelible mark on the music community, selling more than 35 million albums worldwide, 8 Grammy nominations and the winner of 7 Canadian Juno Awards. Every night, during each community celebration, Avril's song will be played when the torch arrives into the city. Along each route, nightly celebrations will take place with musical performances, celebrity guests and Unified Sports Experiences (where people with and without intellectual disabilities play on the same team together). The relay will kick off May 26th in Augusta, Maine Miami, Florida and Washington, D.C. "Fly" will also be featured during Special Olympics' first-ever Unified Relay Across America presented by Bank of America event, where over the course of 46 days, over 20,000 participants nationwide will carry the Flame of Hope to Los Angeles for the Special Olympics World Games. The music video for "Fly" was directed by Avril Lavigne and Robb Dipple (who also provided photography direction), produced by Lisa Lax & Nancy Stern, edited by Ray Conley and associate produced by Brittany Futterknecht. The track also features violin by Slovakian sensation Filip Jančík, who is known for melding rock and pop with classical violin. Special thanks to Epic Records, a division of Sony Music Entertainment.
The track was produced by Avril Lavigne and Chris Baseford, mixed by Chris Lord-Alge at Mix LA with assistance from Keith Armstrong and Nik Karpen, with additional engineering from Andrew Schubert and Adam Chagnon, engineered by Chris Baseford, and mastered by Ted Jensen. Lavigne co-wrote "Fly" with her husband Chad Kroeger and David Hodges. During her 2014 World Tour, Avril visited a local Special Olympics Program in Shanghai to learn more about their work, and met with and invited more than 200 Special Olympics athletes to her shows in 14 countries. In September 2014, as part of the Avril Lavigne Foundation's support for Special Olympics, Avril launched a campaign for her 30th birthday, which raised funds to support 30 Special Olympics athletes competing in the 2015 Special Olympics World Games.