What happened to aaron neville
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Aaron Neville
Until now, it’s been easy to separate Aaron Neville’s career into two separate but equal strains: the funky stuff he’s favored when working with his esteemed band of brothers, and the angelic balladry you associate with him when he’s punching his own time card as a solo artist. Casual fans might admit they don’t know much — to borrow a phrase — about Neville’s musical center, but they’ve perceived a certain split in his career. An education is about to be provided, then, in the form of Apache, a solo album that makes the case for Aaron Neville as the most holistic of soul men. Its hard R&B side matches anything the Neville Brothers ever recorded for true grit, while still allowing plenty of space for a singer who’s arguably the most distinctive vocal stylist on the planet to tell it like it is.
Apache also reflects Neville’s social and spiritual concerns, marking only the second time in his 56-year recording career that he’s co-written nearly an entire album’s worth of material. The words are straight out of a poetry journal he began keeping in th
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Neville, Aaron
Vocalist
Served Prison Time
Struggled to Make Ends Meet
Duets with Linda Ronstadt
Selected discography
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With one of the most distinctive and refined tenor voices in pop music, Aaron Neville is a New Orleans-based vocalist who has enjoyed a long and successful career. Known for his 1960s classic “Tell It Like It Is,” Neville often collaborates with other vocalists and with his siblings as a member of the Neville Brothers. He created a body of classic soul music in the 1960s and 1970s that collectors eagerly sought out and revived as the twentieth century drew to a close. Neville re-emerged during the 1990s as a ballad singer, most notably in duets with pop singer Linda Ronstadt and country diva Trisha Yearwood.
Aaron Neville was born in New Orleans on January 24, 1941, the son of a merchant marine sailor. Although he lived in poverty in the city’s Calliope housing project, he enjoyed a happy childhood. Neville’s mother” showed by actions,” he told New Orleans Magazine.” She was just a nice person, s
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Aaron Neville
American singer (born 1941)
Musical artist
Aaron Joseph Neville (born January 24, 1941)[1] is an American R&B and soul singer. With Art, Charles, and Cyril, he is a member of the Neville Brothers. On his own, he has had four platinum albums and four Top 10 hits in the United States, including three that reached number one on Billboard's Adult Contemporary chart.
Career
The first of Neville's singles that was given airplay outside of New Orleans was "Over You", released in 1960. His first hit single was "Tell It Like It Is", released by local musician/arranger George Davis, a friend from school, and band-leader Lee Diamond. The song topped Billboard's R&B chart for five weeks in 1967 and also reached No. 2 on the Billboard Hot 100 (behind "I'm a Believer" by the Monkees). It sold over one million copies, and was awarded a gold disc.[2]
Neville released his first solo album since the late 1960s in 1986 with the independent release Orchid in The Storm. In 1989, Neville teamed up with Linda Ronstadt on the
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