Chad Kruger: the star of the Canadian alternative scene

Nickelback became famous for his lyrical ballads and memorable baritone of Chad Kruger, the lead singer of the Canadian rock band. Chad can not be separated from his project: at the age of 21 he founded it and, in fact, during all these years, did nothing more than music and writing songs. How did Chad Krueger get to the musical Olympus, and what plans does the frontman have for the future?

Nickelback Education

Chad Krueger, whose biography began in Canada in the small town of Hannah, is not very extensible about what he did before 1995 - the actual foundation of Nickelback. It is known that Kruger worked for some time in the advertising business and these skills were useful to him when promoting his own project.

Nickelbac Chad organized with his brother Mike, who still performs with the band as a bass player. On record of the first demo album 4 000 $ to Chad was given by his stepfather. Nickelbac was written in Vancouver. The tracks from this album repeatedly got into the rotation on the local radio.

Then the young project moved to a permanent place of residence in Vancouver, they managed to record the second album and roll back the tour of Canada with "3 Doors Down". And only after that, Chad and his team signed a contract with a major label, and their musical career went uphill.

Cooperation with other artists

Chad Kruger at the moment is known to everyone not only as a vocalist, but also as a guitarist, music producer, and a good composer. He often collaborates with other artists, creating songs for them or recording soundtracks for films.

For example, in 2002, Chad, together with the participants of the project Saliva, Theory of a Deadman and Our Lady Peace, created an unconditional hit for the blockbuster "Spider-Man" - the song "Hero".

Chad is the author of the song "Why Do not You & I", which entered the album "Shaman" by Carlos Santana. Collaboration with Santana Kruger continued in 2007, again working on the song "Into the Night" for his album "Ultimate Santana".

Together with Travis Tritt, Chad Kruger performed the song "Should've Listened" for the album "The Storm" by Tritt. By the way, this song is in the album Nickelback - "The Long Road". In short, Chad regularly collaborates with other artists and plans to do this in the future: cooperation is an integral part of his musical career.

Scandalous stories

Chad Kruger is a figurant of several scandalous stories, as befitted a rock star.

In the summer of 2006, he was stopped in one of the provinces in western Canada for speeding. The officer who detained Kruger immediately held a test for alcohol, which showed that his level in the blood of the rocker was exceeded twice. The case was referred to the court. Kruger's lawyers challenged both the results of the test, and the allegedly illegal search of his car. But in the end, Chad was found guilty, and the musician had to pay $ 600 fine, besides this - for a year to forget about driving the car.

In 2009, Chad again became a figurant of the trials - this time about the fight he had fought. According to somebody Noah Morse, Chad attacked him near the night club and struck a young man with a concussion.

On this modest list of scandalous adventures Kruger ends, which is even surprising for the leader of one of the most popular alternative groups.

Marriage with Avril Lavigne

In late February 2012, Chad Krueger was invited to record one of the songs for the fifth studio album of another Canadian rock star - Avril Lavigne. Between the young people sympathy was born, they talked for half a year, but Chad Krueger admitted to journalists that they officially started dating only on July 1 - Canada Day. August 8 Avril received an engagement ring with a 14-carat stone on it. But the wedding was postponed for a year.

Avril Lavigne carefully planned the upcoming celebration. It was held on July 1, 2013 in the south of France. The honeymoon began with a walk on the yacht.

Happy Avalanche and Chad Kruger photo from the ceremony sold to the magazine Hello. For Chad, this was the first marriage in his life, for Lavin - the second.

But in 2014, rumors about the upcoming divorce of the pair have already spread. None of the newlyweds confirmed them, but did not refute them either.