Aaron Joseph Newman
Denver, Colorado, United States
Bio
Aaron Joseph Newman a neo-hop group formed in 2007 with lead
vocalist Aaron!! and engineer/producer Kori Munson aka
(Apollo Lane). Aaron was born in Syracuse New York, the youngest
of six children. The son of a Lieutenant Colonel and a mom struggling with
Multiple Sclerosis, Aaron moved to the small town of Conway, Arkansas at the age
of four. Music has always been a passion of Aaron's and as early as the age of five he started
memorizing songs as well as writing his own songs, a passion that would
never change. In 2003 Aaron Lost his Mother to a battle with
brain Cancer. In attempts to deal with the loss he turned to
writing and performing. Rebellion soon followed leading him to being
kicked out of school in 2005, for truency and behavioral
issues. He was given the option of jail or boot camp. Aaron
would go on to spend 5 months in Youth Challenge. In that
time Aaron's Father was offered a job as a missionary in
Singapore. Aaron's Father would leave the country after
he completed YC, which effectively left Aaron sleeping from couch to couch and often outside. He was left
with
just a backpack and a sleeping bag in the humid state of Arkansas. During these hard times, Aaron's
childhood rival in music, Kori Munson
(aka Apollo Lane) was driving down the road one day and saw him walking.
He would later end up offering him a place to stay. While living together the
two starting working on music full time. After six months the
two moved to Nashville, Tennessee to attend schoool at SAE
Institute of Technology for audio engineering. After
completing the program, they moved back to Conway, Arkansas to
start pursuing their dream full time. After crafting seven
mixtapes in the past 3 years (High 5's and Apple Pies,
Lizards & Robots, WUPN, Hello & Smile, Netflix &
Chocolate Milk, LLGB and Penguin Meets Monkey) and sharing
the stage with some of the biggest names in modern music
(Big Sean Big krit Yelawolf ), the two show no signs of
slowing up. They are now gearing up for the release of their new full
length LP, "A Room Full Of Elephants".
A sound they catergorize as Neo-Hop, which is an array of genre
blending sound with influences that scatter from Erykah Badu
to Weezer. There is almost no better description than that of Aaron himself when asked about his music in
an interview:
"I guess the whole point of this paragraph is to sum up who I
am as an artist... I am a storyteller, I am the flaws that most
people hide, I’m brutal honesty, I'm a movie in motion,
I’m now, I'm whoever or whatever I remind you of, I’m
a disaster waiting to happen, I'm Billy Bob Thorton in
Sling Blade “mmmmm hhhmm”, I’m exaggerated drunk
stories, I’m me... I am you."
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