NASHVILLE, Tennessee
Singer-Songwriter

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BIOGRAPHY

Currently calling Nashville his home, Aron was born in Little Rock, AR, raised in St. Louis, MO, and moved to South Africa at the age of 16. Throughout his teen years, Aron learned how to play trumpet, bass trombone, and tuba through marching band and jazz ensemble. He began playing guitar by the age of 13, but didn’t start writing songs until he moved to South Africa where there was no symphonic band and was instead encouraged to sing and compose. Upon graduating high school, Aron moved to Nashville where he attended Lipscomb University. After graduating with degrees in Spanish, French and Marketing, Aron taught Spanish for two years before deciding to pursue music full time.

Recently Aron Wright was featured on Nashville’s local independent radio station Lightning 100’s “Local Artist Spotlight” with his song “Christmas Ain’t Christmas This Year.” As an artist, Aron has played with acts such as Matthew Perryman Jones, Jeremy Lister, The Features, Daniel Ellsworth, and Brooke Waggoner. Aron’s musical influences include Patty Griffin, Nick Drake, Jeff Buckley, Otis Redding, Maxwell, Sigur Ros, and Radiohead, to name a few. Aron’s future plans include promoting the new album through upcoming shows and touring.

LEVEL

semi-pro

GENRES

Singer/Songwriter, Folk

PUBLISHING COMPANY

Makeout Music Company, I own my own publishing

Contact

Management: proartmgmt@gmail.com
Publishing: Makeout Music Company aronwright@gmail.com
Label: Makeout Music Company
Booking: aronwright@gmail.com
Administrative: Aron Wright

P.R.O.

ASCAP

INSTRUMENTS

acoustic guitar / piano / trumpet / ukulele / vocals

INFLUENCES

Patty Griffin, Nick Drake, Sigur Ros, Jeff Buckley, Otis Redding, Nina Simone, Paul Simon.

I AM INTERESTED IN

in co writing online
in co writing in person
in networking with songwriters
in pitching songs to artist
in pitching songs to tv
in getting a record deal
in getting a publishing deal

I WRITE:

It's my second job

I Also Write:
by myself
with others
for myself
for others

I Prefer To Write:
lyrics
melody
music

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SONG PLACEMENTS

4 songs from the album "In the woods" were placed 5 times in the WB show Everwood, second season. "What have we got to lose?" on One Tree Hill season 6 episode 12.

AWARDS & ACCOLADES

In the current ranks of sensitive men singing very high and desperate notes, Aron Wright manages to stand apart. Perhaps it is the sparsity of his string-laden arrangements, or possibly the unusual voicings that emanate from his open-tuned acoustic guitar; but most likely it is the depth of feeling that seems to bubble out of his pixie-ish falsetto, an enormously effective instrument that draws equally from Sigur Ros, Phoebe Cates and a dripping glacial plane somewhere in the Arctic Circle. "In the Woods" (Makeout Music Company) is a fine debut that captures Wright at the quiet beginning of something enormously promising.-DAVID MEAD American Songwriter Magazine Duff McKagan, bass player of Guns and Roses, says, “Aron has the voice of an angel.” Drew Ramsey, producer of artists such as India Arie, Jonny Lang, Marc Broussard and Robert Randolph and the Family Band, says, “Aron was fearless in taking his time and setting a mood before unveiling the essence of the message; and fearless also in his vocal delivery, not scared of digging and going wherever the music led. It’s like Alison Krauss and Ray LaMontagne had a baby.” F. Reid Shippen, a 5-time Grammy Award winning Mixing Engineer who has worked with hundreds of artists says, “I find myself drawn consistently back, time and again, to the specific beauty and honest originality in Aron's music. It plays on repeat and gets better every time.”

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