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Aaron Neville

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Valence St in Uptown, New Orleans LA

Aaron Neville (born January 24, 1941 in New Orleans, Louisiana ) is an American soul and R&B singer whose beautiful, emotive and vibrato laden voice has enthralled audiences around the world. Aaron is the third of the four famous and funky The Neville Brothers (Aaron, Charles, Cyril and Art Neville) who all grew up on Valence St in Uptown, New Orleans LA and went their seperate ways for years before forming a unique musical group of their own in the late 1970’s.

Aaron’s full musical promise was nearly sidetracked in his youth with several false starts, compounded by run-ins with the law, bad business decisions and problems with substance abuse. By the late 1980’s, he eventually overcame numerous challenges and found stability and worldwide acclaim, becoming a widely appreciated and award winning solo singer.

Amongst his first recorded efforts in the early 1960’s for the Parlo label was the song

Tell It Like It Is which became a big hit, not only locally, but nationally as well. Aaron was unfortunately denied proper royalties, and ended up broke and working as a day laborer on the Mississippi River loading docks hearing his first hit song climbing the charts on the radio while working. Thus began a long journey into the unseemly side of show business which left him with not much to show for his efforts other than a growing drug problem.

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soul, funk, new orleans, rnb, blues
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1	White Christmas full track	639
2	Tell It Like It Is full track	573
3	Please Come Home for Christmas full track	490
4	Let It Snow, Let It Snow, Let It Snow full track	371
5	Hercules full track	352
6	O Little Town Of Bethlehem full track	185
7	O Holy Night full track	159
8	The Star Carol full track	154
9	Such A Night full track	148
10	Louisiana Christmas Day full track	143
11	Silent Night full track	137
12	Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow! full track	114
13	Christmas Prayer full track	102
14	The Bells Of St. Mary's full track	75
15	The Christmas Song full track	74

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dopemoves wrote:
Wednesday evening

Aaron has a unique soul, bless him! Aaron really knows how to lay it down.

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LondonLouis wrote:
21 days ago

Tell it like it is: seriously haunting (though I think I have heard better versions from him or the Brothers)

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2ndLifeEnt wrote:
August 2008

A great singer! His cover of Elvis's Young and Beautiful is beautiful indeed.

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chillionaire wrote:
July 2008

love his voice.. i wonder if he ever did steroids though :P

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balzadelia wrote:
May 2008

pure class , Hercules is a TOP TUNE .one sharp cat

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80sfever wrote:
April 2008

This guy could beat 50's a** in a fight anytime, and he has that creamy sensitive voice. You know what, that's one of the reasons I love this guy.

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qwertyboy5000 wrote:
December 2007

I lo-ho-hove Aaron Ne-he-heville. Cobbem Cobbem Bubber.

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hank_kingsley wrote:
October 2007

Lovely voice, that song with Linda Ronstadt is the soundtrack to hell though.

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MrStyle wrote:
August 2007

Let's Stay Together with Chaka Khan is truly amazing!

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holborn3 wrote:
July 2007

what a wonderful voice im so glad i have discovered this huge talent

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robinwestman wrote:
November 2006

You are so frickin sensitive Aaron:D

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Obscurity wrote:
September 2006

Cocoa butter?

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