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This frontman for Nickelback recently got engaged to pop singer-songwriter Avril Lavigne after a reported six-month courtship that began when the pair teamed up to co-write a song on Lavigne's fifth album. Here are five things you probably don't know about Chad Kroeger.

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1. Born Chad Robert Turton on November 15, 1974, in the small coal mining town of Hanna in Alberta, Canada.

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2. Started playing guitar at age 13, and in the early '90s was part of a grunge cover band that also included future Nickelback members Mike Kroeger and Ryan Peake.

3. Placed No. 6 on the Boston Phoenix's list of the "100 Unsexiest Men in the World" -- with the publication citing Kroeger's "massive head, weird face and bad hair."

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4. Admits to some behavior problems in school, telling Playboy magazine, "I don't know how many times I got kicked out of school. I just thought it was fun to be bad. To a certain degree I still think it's fun to be bad."

5. In 2002 he wrote and sang on Why Don't You & I for Carlos Santana's multi-platinum-selling album Shaman.

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