Lee Aaron

www.leeaaron.com

July 4th at 4:15 pm 

 

Lee Aaron is an award winning singer, songwriter and performer. Over the course of her career, she has been nominated for eight Juno Awards, won the CMPA Songwriters Award, a Much Music Video Award, three Toronto Music Awards, and an Ampex Golden Reel Award. In addition, she has graced the covers of an assortment of international magazines - TV Guide, Melody Maker and Sounds - to name three - and topped dozens of music-polls.

Lee started out as a youngster singing jazz and Broadway standards in local Toronto choir and community theatre. Ironically, the painfully shy girl who hung around in the music room after school to study and practice would go on to become a world-renowned rock diva. By 1982, at the age of 19, Lee had written and recorded her first album as well as created quite an industry buzz.

By the mid-nineties, frustrated at the residual perception that defined her as a one-dimensional "rock chick", Aaron decided to take a year long hiatus from the music business. She resurfaced in 1997 on the West Coast, performing cool jazz and blues material in intimate club settings. In 2000 Lee released her tenth disc, Slick Chick to glowing reviews. It was subsequently released in Europe and South America followed by a nine country tour.

Last year, Lee began writing and production on Beautiful Things. What initially started as another jazz effort, evolved into some of her most creative and personal work to date.

Industry insiders agree the new material is her most impressive work ever. Performed by some of the West Coast's finest musicians - including Michael Kaeshammer and True North Records newcomer Joel Kroeker - Beautiful Things seamlessly blends jazz, roots and pop into a brilliant and unique collection of originals and select covers.

"Beautiful Things' features Lee Aaron producing music of rare beauty that not only captures the power, range and sensitivity of her invincible voice but successfully melds her rock, blues and jazz influences." - Larry LeBlanc, Billboard.