Aaron Neville

At 83 years old, Aaron Neville has this physical status:

Aaron Joseph Neville (born January 24, 1941) is an American R&B and soul singer and guitarist.

He has had four platinum albums and four Top ten hits in the United States, including three that have climbed to the top of Billboard's Adult Contemporary chart.

For five weeks, his debut single, which appeared on the Soul chart in 1966, was the most popular on the Soul chart. Ivan Neville, a singer/keyboards player, has performed with his brothers Art, Charles, and Cyril as The Neville Brothers, and is the father of singer/keyboards player Ivan Neville.

Neville has mixed African-American, Caucasian, and Native American (Choctaw) roots.

Personal life

Neville is a student at the University of New Orleans, Louisiana. He has a mixture of African-American, Caucasian, and Native American (Choctaw) roots. George "Big Chief Jolly" Landry, his uncle, was the lead singer of the Mardi Gras Indian band the Wild Tchoupitoulas.

When Neville was 16 years old, he got his facial tattoo (of a sword). "My dad made me scrub it with Brillo Pads and Octagon Soap," he told Billboard in 2019. The skin was removed, but the tattoo remained. But then, I had an album called The Tattooed Heart [in 1995], and we were doing something in a tattoo parlor, so I let them go through it and outline it - freshen it up."

On January 10, 1959, Neville married Joel (pronounced Jo-EL ) Roux Neville (1941–2007). Ernestine, Ivan, Aaron "Fred," and Jason Neville were all together.

Neville met photographer Sarah A. Friedman, who had been hired to photograph the Neville Brothers in 2008, during a People magazine photo shoot. On November 13, 2010, Neville and Friedman were married at the restaurant Eleven Madison Park in New York City.

Ivan's oldest son, Ivan, is also a musician and released the album If My Ancestors Could See Me Now, which earned a Top 40 hit with "Not Just Another Girl." On his first solo tour, Ivan has worked with Spin Doctors, the Rolling Stones, and Bonnie Raitt, as well as playing keyboards for Keith Richards. Ivan Neville's Dumpstaphunk), which tours and regularly appears in New Orleans, has formed Ivan Neville's Dumpstaphunk, who toured and regularly appears in New Orleans.

Jason Neville's third son, Jason, has performed with his father and with the Neville Brothers, many at the 2009 New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival.

Neville is the uncle of writer and Fox News presenter Arthel Neville.

Neville, a Catholic, is dedicated to St. Jude, to whom he has attributed his triumph and longevity. As a left earring, he wears a St. Jude Medal.

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Career

"Over You" was the first of his singles to airplay outside of New Orleans; Minit, 1960). "Tell It Like It Is," Neville's first big hit single, released on a small New Orleans label, Par-Lo, owned by local musician/arranger George Davis, a friend from school, and band leader Lee Diamond. In 1967, the song dominated Billboard's R&B chart for five weeks, and later debuted at No. 25. The Billboard Hot 100 debuts on February 2 (behind "I'm a Believer" by the Monkees). It was released in over one million copies and was given a gold disc. According to several sources, it was not the label's first appearance. At least five other Par-Lo singles have been recorded, three of whom are by Neville himself.

In 1986, Neville released Orchid in The Storm, his first solo album since the late 1960s. Neville and Linda Ronstadt teamed up on the album Cry Like a Rainstorm, Howl Like the Wind, which featured four duets by the pair in 1989. The No. 1st among them was the No. "Don't Know It" and "All My Life" are two Grammy-winning hits on "Don't Know Anything" and "All My Life." At No. 1 on the website, "Don't Know Much" came in No. On the Hot 100, the album was named Triple Platinum for US sales of more than three million.

Ronstadt's 1991 album Warm Your Heart, which included the hit single "Everybody Plays the Fool," a recreation of the 1972 Main Ingredient song, which debuted at No. 1 following the success of Cry Like a Rainstorm, Howl Like the Wind. Ronstadt's "Close Your Eyes" is No. 8 on the Billboard Hot 100, as well as another duet. In 1997, Warm Your Heart was rated platinum for more than a million dollars in the United States.

Neville's career as a recording artist grew and then ventured into making country music during 1993 and 1994. Neville launched the platinum-selling The Grand Tour on A&M Records in 1993, with lead single "Don't Take Away My Heaven" debuting at No. 1. On the Adult Contemporary chart, page 4 (where previous hits such as "Don't Know Much," "All My Life," and "Everybody Plays the Fool" all reached number one). The follow-up single "The Grand Tour," a tribute to country music legend George Jones' 1974 debut, peaked at No. 59. He appeared on the Billboard country singles chart at 38, and supporters and critics alike applauded his selection for the Best Male Vocal Performance at the 36th Annual Grammy Awards in 1994. Aaron Neville, a platinum seller, followed the album with his Soulful Christmas.

Neville's new country music project involved appearing on 1994's Rhythm, Country, and Blues, an album of duets starring R&B and Country artists performing renditions of classic country and R&B hits. At the 37th Annual Grammy Awards, Neville produced a version of "I Fall to Pieces," a major crossover hit for Patsy Cline, with Trisha Yearwood winning the Grammy Award for Best Country Collaboration with Vocals. Neville became one of the few African American recording artists to win a Grammy in the Country category. Neville performed the song "I Don't Want to Live on the Moon" as a duet with Ernie on April 24, 1994.

The Tattooed Heart, Aaron's 1995 R&B flavored collection, which featured excerpts from Bill Withers and Kris Kristofferson's classics, as well as two new duets with Ronstadt, including a cover of "The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face." Nature Boy: The Standards Album, Verve Records' first album on record, followed this, followed by 2000 gospel album Devotion, which topped the US gospel album chart, and his 2003 debut for Verve Records entitled Nature Boy: The Standards Album, which topped the US jazz album chart. Neville performed selections from the Great American Songbook, including another Ronstadt duet "The Very Thought of You."

Hurricane Katrina destroyed his home in Eastern New Orleans in August 2005; he had to flee Memphis, Tennessee, before the hurricane struck. He first went to Austin temporarily visiting Clifford Antone, then moved to Nashville, Tennessee, following the hurricane. And, after failing to return to the city by early 2008, the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival was able to partially alter the festival's tradition of having the Neville Brothers close the show. Nevertheless, the Neville Brothers, including Aaron, have returned to the 2008 Jazzfest, which will be held in the same seven-day style for the first time since Katrina. He then returned to Covington, a North Shore suburb. During NBC's A Concert for Hurricane Relief on September 2, 2005, Neville performed Randy Newman's "Louisiana 1927."

Neville signed to SonyBMG's latest Burgundy Records imprint in late 2005, and producer Otis Redding, Marvin Gaye, Curtis Mayfield, Sam Cooke, and others performed an album of songs for Bring It On Home...The Soul Classics, which was released on September 19, 2006. The collection, produced by Stewart Levine, features collaborations by Neville and Chaka Khan, Mavis Staples, Chris Botti, David Sanborn, Art Neville, and others. The album's first single was a recreation of The Impressions' 1963 hit "It's All Right."

Neville has worked with television, films, and sporting events. In the film The Fan starring Robert De Niro and Wesley Snipes, Neville sang the US national anthem. He performed the anthem at the WWF's SummerSlam 1993 and at the WCW's Spring Stampede 1994. Neville performed the theme tune to the Fisher-Price Little People's television series. Cotton Incorporated also performed a new version of "Cotton," which was introduced at the 1992 Summer Olympics. One of many artists, he performed "Mickey Mouse March" in 1988 for Stay Awake: Various Interpretations of Music from Vintage Disney Films. Neville presented "The Star-Spangled Banner" on keyboards at Super Bowl XL in Detroit, Michigan, in 2006. In addition, Neville (along with brothers Art and Cyril) did background vocals on Jimmy Buffett's "Great Heart," "Bring Back the Magic," "My Barracuda," "My Barracuda," and "Smart Woman (in a Real Short Skirt)" on Jimmy Buffett's Hot Water, which was released in 1988.

In the 2005 documentary film Make It Funky!, Neville is interviewed on film and appears in a performance video with the Neville Brothers, which explores New Orleans music and its influence on rhythm and blues, rock and roll, funk, and jazz. In the film, the Nevilles perform "Fire on the Bayou."

Neville made a guest appearance on an episode of The Young and the Restless on October 27, 2006. From his album, Bring It On Home, he performed "Stand by Me" and "Ain't No Sunshine." The Soul Classics are among the Soul Classics. He released Gold in 2008, which also included a double album of his hits.

Christmas Prayer by Neville in 2008 was broadcast on ER (TV Series). The High Holiday, an ER (season 15) episode.

Neville and the Mt. were born in 2009 and together with the Mt. On the compilation album Oh Happy Day, Zion Mass Choir performed a version of the song "A Change Is Gonna Come" by the band "A Change Is Gonna Come."

Neville and his brother Art performed with The Meters in 2010.

Neville was the featured artist for the University of Memphis Centennial Concert on September 30, 2011, at the Cannon Center for the Performing Arts.

In 2011, Neville, The Blind Boys of Alabama, and Mavis Staples, along with The Blind Boys of Alabama, had toured New Zealand.

Blue Note Records released Neville's My True Story, a collection of 12 doo-wop tunes produced by Don Was and Keith Richards in January 2013, with support from singers like Benmont Tench and Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers.

He received the Laetare Medal in March 2015 and was named the year's recipient of the Laetare Medal.

Keith Richards selected "My True Story" as one of his Desert Island Discs in October 2015.

The 80-year-old Neville, who died in May 2021, has announced his retirement from touring, but he may still record albums or perform occasionally for special events or festivals.

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Awards and honors

• 32nd Grammy Awards : Best Pop Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal : "Don't Know Much" with Linda Ronstadt (winner)