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Seller: memorabilia111 ✉️ (808) 100%, Location: Ann Arbor, Michigan, US, Ships to: US & many other countries, Item: 176277816040 1990 MUSIC CONTRACT SIGNED RARE NBC AUTOGRAPH AARON NEVILLE TODAY SHOW. A GUEST CONTRACT FOR TODAY SHOW Aug 30 , 1990 SIGNED BY MUSIC LEGEND  AARON NEVILLE ON 8.5X11 INCH PAPER Aaron Joseph Neville is an American R&B and soul vocalist and musician. He has had four platinum albums and four Top 10 hits in the United States, including three that went to #1 on Billboard's Adult Contemporary chart. "Tell It Like It Is", from 1966, was #1 on the Soul chart for five weeks
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 the 1970s, which more recently migrated to his iPhone. The music was written and produced by a pair of collaborators well known to enthusiasts of the retro-soul scene, Eric Krasno (guitarist for the groups Soulive and Rustic) and Dave Gutter (frontman for the Rustic Overtones). Together, they’ve come up with a modern/revivalist marvel harking back to a golden age that produced classics like Marvin Gaye’s What’s Goin’ On (which Neville just happens to reference in the eco-conscious “Fragile World”).   “I call it The Other Side of Aaron,” says the 75-year-old legend, offering an alternative album title, “because people know me from doing the ballads and New Orleans stuff. They’re getting another feel of Aaron” — a record that touches on the mystic gumbo of “Yellow Moon” and sheer sweetness of “Everybody Plays the Fool” while diverging toward a third path we’ve never quite heard from Neville in the studio. And as much as he wants to surprise long-time fans with it, he says he’s “hoping that a lot of other people that might not even know me get turned on to it.” Which is far from unimaginable: It’s easy to picture a 20-year-old listening to the tracks that feature the Dap-King horns and wondering who this new guy is who’s following in the tradition of Amy Winehouse.   “Sonically, we knew we wanted to take it back to the soul/funk era,” says Eric Krasno (who’s produced and/or written for Ledisi, Matisyahu, Norah Jones, 50 Cent, Chaka Khan, and countless others). “When I first connected with Aaron, we talked about ‘Hercules’ [a 1973 single Neville recorded with Allen Toussaint and the Meters] and some of Aaron’s early recordings as references. And most of the instruments and gear we used on this record were made before 1975. But we also wanted to give it something fresh and new, and we used a lot of modern tricks to get where we wanted to go. Certain songs like ‘Be Your Man’ and ‘I Ain’t Judgin’ You’ get into some heavy funk, while ‘Sarah Ann’ and ‘Heaven’ take you to the warm, soulful place that Aaron does like no one else.”   If the final musical aesthetic of Apache is something of a hybrid, well, Neville knows all about hybrids. He is one, even at the core of his racial identity… which is where the title of the album comes in.   “We have Native American blood in us,” Neville explains. “My great-grandmother came from the island of Martinique, and they settled down in Convent, Louisiana, and they hooked up with some of the Native Americans back there — so we are African, Native American, and whatever else. Sometimes I say that with all the different colors we have going, we’re Heinz 57 — you know, the 57 varieties,” he laughs. “I have a picture of my grandmother right next to a picture of Geronimo, and they look like they could be sister and brother. When I was in school days, if they were doing a Thanksgiving play, they would always pick me to be the Native American in the play, because of my high cheekbones and all. When I was in my late teens, in the summer I’d be out front and my skin color would turn red, and I used to wear my hair straight down with a headband around it. So my uncle started calling me Apache Red, and then I just shortened it to Apache.”   He’s held on to the nickname with pride over the years. “My license plate used to be ‘Apache’ on my car in New Orleans. I have it tattooed on my back.” And, just in case that isn’t bad-ass enough… “My little dog’s name is Apache,” he adds — “my little Shih Tzu Pomeranian.” No wonder the appellation finally made its way from the license plate, the tat, and the Tzu to the front cover of the most personal album of his career.   If there’s anywhere that Neville has embraced being a crossbreed, as it were, it’s in his musical impulses. That comes out of his childhood, where he became immersed in all the New Orleans and R&B culture you’d expect —including Sam Cooke, possibly his foremost vocal role model — and a few things you wouldn’t.   “I guess the teacher probably thought I had ADD or whatever, because I wasn’t paying attention too much in class,” he laughs. “I had a song going through my head, you know? I used to sing my way into the movies. Whoever was running the door, I’d sing ‘em a Nat King Cole song, and they’d let me in. I was into him and Charles Brown and Ray Charles and all the doo-wops. And I was also a big fan of Hank Williams, and the cowboys — Roy Rogers and Gene Autry and the Sons of the Pioneers.” If you don’t think there’s that much commonality between those genres, Neville can break into song and show you exactly which aspects of his vocal personality came from which strain. “With Nat, it was his diction, because I really wasn’t too good at the diction, but he was a master of it. You can hear the yodeling from the cowboys. And from doo-wop, I used to end all my songs with that little curly-cue thing,” he says, going into a spiraling falsetto that seems like it might never peak.   Neville’s last album, 2013’s My True Story, was a tribute to those doo-wop roots, featuring a lot of classic material. This time, he completely eschewed cover tunes, but paid tribute to his early years by writing about them in the song “Stompin’ Ground,” which is a veritable autobiography in 3 minutes and 22 seconds, packed with a wealth of names and nicknames that even a seasoned Louisiana music buff might require a scorecard to keep up with. Follow along with the details he packed into that song’s lyrics, if you can:   “That song is all about my roots in New Orleans. I gave a shout-out to Mac Rebennack and Scarface John. Scarface John was a guy that I sang about in the song ‘Brother John is Gone,’ with the Wild Tchoupitoulas [his uncle’s group, which led to the formation of the Neville Brothers as a band in the late ‘70s]. Mac Rebennack, that’s Dr. John. He and I are the same age, and I used to hang out with him back in the day. The first time I ever went in the studio, he asked me to come do some background on somebody’s song, when we were both about 15 years old. And James Booker you’ve heard of; he was one of the greatest piano players who ever walked the planet.” Not everyone name-checked in “Stompin’ Ground” is so famous, “but they’re famous to me! Every time I call their name, I can see their faces and remember where I met ‘em and what we were doing. Like Treacherous Slim and Second-Line Black and Stackalee. Big Chief Jolly, that’s my Uncle Jolly with the Wild Tchoupitoulas. Ratty Chin? That’s my brother Cyril. Art the Mighty Row is my brother Art. Horn Man is my brother Charles. Jabby, he was just a dope dealer back in the day,” Neville laughs. “And ‘Mole Face and Melvin’ – that was me and a friend of mine; we picked that up we used to go to different neighborhoods and get in fights.”   Musically, of course, you know Aaron Neville as a lover, not a fighter. The strange trajectory of his recording career began in 1960 when he recorded a single with producer/writer Allen Toussaint. It didn’t seem like a good omen when the record company misspelled his name as “Arron” on the label, but it was an auspicious beginning, musically if not commercially. The Toussaint-penned A-side was “Over You.” “I call it the O.J. song now, because of what he was talking about,” Neville says, referring to the murderous threats embedded in the deceptively upbeat tune. Neville himself wrote the B-side, “Every Day,” penned while he was doing time in New Orleans’ parish prison as a wayward youth in the late ‘50s.   But it wasn’t till his second single, six years later, that Neville experienced at least a fleeting taste of stardom. “Tell It Like It Is” became a No. 2 pop hit and No. 1 R&B smash. And then there was no follow-up, “because the record company went defunct.” But still… “Guys would come back from the war and say, ‘Man, that was all you heard in Vietnam.’ I got to tour with Otis Redding and tear the Apollo Theatre up. That was cool, but meanwhile, the gigs slackened up, so I had to go home and take care of my family. So I worked out on the docks, and that was a hard job, but they paid me for it. I was happy to have a job,” he says, never feeling like the universe owed him a living as a musician, however much anyone else might lament having those gifts buried under a hardhat for so long.   In the late ‘70s, the Neville brothers — Cyril, Charles, Art, and Aaron — came together as a backing unit for their uncle’s Wild Tchoupitoulas and finally decided to strike out as a unit on their own. The sibling group found success primarily on the touring circuit but also garnering attention for albums like their 1989 debut for A&M Records, Yellow Moon, one of the most critically acclaimed albums of that era, for reasons not the least of which was the spooky richness of the Aaron-penned title track. And when it rained, in 1989, it poured. That was also a very good year for Aaron’s solo career, as he had his first real hit in 23 years with “Don’t Know Much,” a No. 2 pop smash that was one of several duets with Neville that Linda Ronstadt included on her album Cry Like a Rainstorm, Howl Like the Wind.   For the quarter-century that followed, Neville deftly balanced the needs of dual group and solo careers. But eventually the demands of the road got to him. In 2012, the Neville Brothers played a farewell show at the Hollywood Bowl, then, feeling that their hometown deserved their real adieu, reunited in May 2015 for a “Nevilles Forever” all-star jam and goodbye blast in New Orleans during Jazz Fest.   “Now, I don’t have to be out there grinding as much,” he says. “I need time off to be with family and just live, instead of just giving it all to the road. I think all of us needed a change. There comes a time when you look at life and think about your mortality and say, ‘How much have I got left?’ And I wanted a chance to do some of the stuff that I’d always wanted to do, and I couldn’t do all of it. That was a hard gig, with the brothers. There wasn’t nobody fighting or anything like that. I wrote ‘em a poem, saying what my brothers meant to me. But I wanted to do something else in my life before I got out of here. And I’ve got a lot more. As I say, I’ve got a long ways to go and a short time to make it in!”   Neville goes out on the road in two different formats now. One is with the Aaron Neville Quintet, which involves all the slinky ferocity fans have come to expect when they see one of music’s greatest vocalists fronting a full band. (And it includes at least a partial Neville Brothers reunion: Brother Charles is part of the fivesome.) The other is the smaller shows he does with his keyboard player Michael Goods, which make up in intimacy and spontaneity what they lack in group intensity. “I like the energy of the quintet,” he says, “and I also like the laid-back quality of the duo, just coming off the top of my head with things, not having to worry about whether we rehearsed it. Sometimes I put Michael on the spot, because I’ll come up with something he’s never heard before, but then he’ll catch it and that will make it even cooler. I bring the audience back to where I first started, with some Nat King Cole or anything that comes to my mind…”   And that mind is constantly racing, musically, just as it was in the days when the teachers would catch him deep in a distracted schoolboy reverie. “Because I’ve got about 10 million songs in my head. Some of ‘em wake me up at 3:00 in the morning, and I’ve got to sing the whole song to myself before I can get back to sleep, to make sure I know all the words,” he laughs. His middle-of-the-night song insomnia can make for his next audience’s dream come true.   Neville no longer lives in New Orleans, which may baffle some of those who think of him as the city’s foremost musical ambassador, or at least tied with his late friend Allen Toussaint for that honor. He’s a New Yorker now — “from the Big Easy to the Big Apple,” as he puts it. “This is where my heart is right now.” He loves the transition he’s making to farm life with his wife of five years, Sarah, who inspired two songs on the new album, “Orchid in the Storm” and (obviously) “Sarah Ann.” But the transitions of the last dozen years have hardly been seamless or painless. And, yes, Hurricane Katrina was a turning point.   “I had been with my wife Joel since I was 16 years old, and I buried her on our 40th wedding anniversary, almost 10 years ago,” he says. When the hurricane was approaching, he instructed Joel to pack up three days’ worth of clothing and meet him in Memphis, figuring they’d come right back. On the day they expected to return, the floods hit, and they never did return to their home. “We were lucky enough to have insurance and be able to sell it, but I didn’t even want anything out of it. I was bitter,” he admits. “I was mad. I didn’t know at who. But it was just from seeing all those people that had lost their lives, while we only lost material stuff.” He still has family to visit in New Orleans, including two brothers, three kids, and a slew of grandchildren and great-grandchildren. But, prefiguring the change that he would soon be making in his professional career, he decided it was time for a geographical change of pace, moving to Nashville with Joel until her 2007 passing.   He didn’t directly write about those experiences in Apache, but you can hear his thoughts about how nature’s calamities are reflecting the way of the world in one of the new songs, “Fragile World.” “You look at the news, and it give you the blues,” he says. “Hurricane Katrina was bad, but you look around the world and so many disasters going on everywhere. It looks like the earth is saying, ‘Man, you’ve been misusing me all these years, and I’m fighting back now. I’m pissed at you.’”   After his wife’s death, while Neville was still too torn up about New Orleans to move back, he ended up in a different Louisiana locale, Covington. It was there that he met Sarah when she was assigned to shoot the Neville Brothers for a People magazine story about the group’s first post-Katrina Jazz Fest performance. They quickly fell in love, as reflected in Apache’s lightest and most effervescent moment, “Sarah Ann,” which Neville acknowledges “has a little more of that doo-wop feel to it, like the Drifters or something.” Just thinking about the song, and about his bride of five years, Neville can’t help but break into a spontaneous refrain of “This Magic Moment.”   Sarah is not the only object of Neville’s affection on Apache. There is God himself, in “Heaven.” Neville also gave thanks for his blessings in a prayer of thanksgiving he posted to Instagram and other social media last January on the occasion of a milestone birthday. The prayer was accompanied by a photo of the famously buff singer lifting weights in the gym, which led one website to lead with the headline, “Aaron Neville is 75… and Fine!” Neville was decades ahead of the curve in taking care of himself, but…   “I’ve been working out all my life, off and on, so I was taking care of myself in some aspects. In some aspects I wasn’t. I went through changes until I was about 40, really,” he says, alluding to the fact that even a fitness buff can struggle with substance abuse problems. “It was what life was putting on me at the time, and how I accepted it. My mother turned me on to St. Jude, saint of the impossible. I used to go to this place called the Santa Ana shrine, where you go up the steps on your knees and you say a prayer on each step. I went there a bunch of times, and each time I went, my prayer was answered. So people can say what they want, but that’s my belief. If I didn’t have faith, I wouldn’t be here. Faith brought me through adversity after adversity. I remember sitting in the gutter one day, down in the dump — Joel and I had split up for a while — and I started singing ‘Ave Maria’ to myself, even though I didn’t even know the words. And it raised me up out of that gutter. Another night in New York City, I remember needing prayers, and I was sitting by a piano at 3 or 4 in the morning and started singing [a gospel song by] Sam Cooke and the Soul Stirrers, and it did the same thing… There are so many times when God saved me and I didn’t even have an idea that he was looking out for me.”   If Neville’s voice had that effect on himself at key moments in his life, it’s incalculable how it affects others. “I’ve had people tell me different things, like this lady who told me they had a 5-year-old little boy who was autistic, and they had to keep him in a padded room — and the only thing that would calm him down is if they put a headset on him with my voice. She gave me chills when she said that. All I could say is, it’s the God in me touching the God in him. I can’t take responsibility. I’m just a singer, you know. And I’m trying to make the tenderest notes that could heal, in some way. I used to say that I wish I could make a note so pure that it could cure cancer.”   It may not actually replace a doctor’s care, but Apache will provide the elixir for just what ails a lot of music fans, whether it’s offering a contemporary spiritual as deeply felt and divine as “Heaven” or just providing the cure for a serious funk deficiency. With a voice and spirit that are that much of a salve, the artist whose nickname was “Apache Red” really is a one-man musical Red Cross.  AUSTIN CITY LIMITS HALL OF FAME – 2017 The Neville Brothers LAETARE MEDAL FROM THE UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME – 2015 Aaron Neville GRAMMY HALL OF FAME – 2014 “Tell It Like It Is” – Aaron Neville (1966) BIG EASY AWARDS – 2011 Nominee – Best Gospel Group/Individual Aaron Neville LOUISIANA MUSIC HALL OF FAME – 2010 Aaron Neville BIG EASY AWARDS – 2004 Nominee – Album of the Year Nature Boy Nominee – Best Male Artist Aaron Neville 46TH ANNUAL GRAMMY  AWARDS – 2003 Nominee – Best Traditional Soul Gospel Album Believe Aaron Neville Nominee – Best Jazz Vocal Album Nature Boy – The Standards Album Aaron Neville Nominee – Best Engineered Album – Non-Classical Nature Boy – The Standards Album Dave O’Donnell, Malcom Pollack, Elliot Scheiner (Aaron Neville) 35TH ANNUAL DOVE AWARDS – 2003 Nominee – Traditional Gospel Album of the Year Believe Aaron Neville, Barry Beckett, Art Neville, Steve Lindsey BIG EASY AWARDS – 2001 Winner – Best Gospel Singer Aaron Neville 43RD ANNUAL GRAMMY AWARDS – 2000 Nominee – Best Traditional Soul Gospel Album Devotion Aaron Neville 41ST ANNUAL GRAMMY AWARDS – 1998 Nominee – Best Traditional R&B Vocal Performance “To Make Me Who I Am” Aaron Neville 37TH ANNUAL GRAMMY AWARDS – 1994 Winner – Best Country & Western Vocal Collaboration “I Fall To Pieces” Aaron Neville, Trisha Yearwood ACADEMY OF COUNTRY MUSIC AWARDS – 1994 Nominee – Vocal Duet of the Year “I Fall To Pieces” Aaron Neville, Trisha Yearwood COUNTRY MUSIC AWARDS – 1994 Nominee – Best Vocal Collaboration of the Year “I Fall To Pieces” Aaron Neville, Trisha Yearwood 36TH ANNUAL GRAMMY AWARDS – 1993 Nominee – Best Country & Western Vocal Performance “The Grand Tour” Aaron Neville Nominee – Best Pop Male Vocal Performance “Don’t Take Away My Heaven” Aaron Neville ROLLING STONE CRITICS’ POLL – 1993 Winner – Best Male Singer Aaron Neville ROLLING STONE CRITICS’ POLL – 1992 Winner – Best Male Singer Aaron Neville 34TH ANNUAL GRAMMY AWARDS – 1991 Nominee – Best Engineered Album Warm Your Heart, Aaron Neville George Massenburg Nominee – Best Pop Male Vocal Album Warm Your Heart Aaron Neville 33RD ANNUAL GRAMMY AWARDS – 1991 Winner – Best Pop Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocals “All My Life” Aaron Neville, Linda Ronstadt 32RD ANNUAL GRAMMY AWARDS – 1990 Winner – Best Pop Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocals “Don’t Know Much” Aaron Neville, Linda Ronstadt Winner – Best Pop Instrumental Performance “Healing Chant” The Neville Brothers, Yellow Moon   Aaron Joseph Neville (born January 24, 1941) is an American R&B and soul vocalist and musician. He has had four platinum albums and four Top 10 hits in the United States, including three that went to #1 on Billboard's Adult Contemporary chart. "Tell It Like It Is", from 1966, was #1 on the Soul chart for five weeks. He has also recorded with his brothers Art, Charles and Cyril as The Neville Brothers and is the father of singer/keyboards player Ivan Neville. Neville is of mixed African-American, Caucasian, and Native American (Choctaw) heritage. Contents 1 Career 2 Personal life 3 Discography 3.1 Studio albums 3.2 Singles 3.3 Guest singles 3.4 Compilation albums 3.5 Music videos 4 Filmography 5 References 6 External links Career The first of his singles that was given airplay outside of New Orleans was "Over You" (Minit, 1960). Neville's first major hit single was "Tell It Like It Is", released on a small New Orleans label, Par-Lo, co-owned 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 #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.[1] It was not the label's only release, as some sources claim. At least five other Par-Lo singles, three of them by Neville himself, are known to exist.[2] Neville released his first solo album since the late 60s in 1986 with the independent release Orchid in The Storm. In 1989, Neville teamed up with Linda Ronstadt on the album Cry Like a Rainstorm, Howl Like the Wind which included four duets by the pair. Amongst them were the #1 Grammy-winning hits "Don't Know Much" and "All My Life". "Don't Know Much" reached #2 on the Hot 100, and was certified Gold for selling a million copies, while the album was certified Triple Platinum for US sales of more than 3 million.[3] In return, Ronstadt produced his platinum-selling 1990 album Warm Your Heart including the hit single "Everybody Plays the Fool", a cover of the 1972 Main Ingredient song, which reached #8 on the Hot 100 and another duet with Ronstadt "Close Your Eyes". During 1993 and 1994, Neville expanded his repertoire as a recording artist and ventured into making country music. In 1993, Neville released the platinum-selling The Grand Tour on A&M Records with lead single "Don't Take Away My Heaven" reach number 4 on the Adult Contemporary chart (where previous hits "Don't Know Much," "All My Life," and "Everybody Plays the Fool" all reached number one). Follow-up single The Grand Tour, a cover of country music legend George Jones 1974 hit, peaked at No.38 on the Billboard country singles chart,[4] and was highly acclaimed by fans and critics, resulting in a nomination for the Grammy Award for Best Male Country Vocal Performance at the 36th Annual Grammy Awards in 1994.[5] He followed the album up with another platinum seller Aaron Neville's Soulful Christmas. Neville's next country music project involved appearing on 1994's Rhythm, Country and Blues, an album of duets featuring R&B and Country artists performing renditions of classic country and R&B songs. Neville recorded a version of I Fall to Pieces, a major crossover hit for Patsy Cline originally released in 1961, with Trisha Yearwood that resulted in Neville and Yearwood winning the Grammy Award for Best Country Collaboration with Vocals at the 37th Annual Grammy Awards.[6] As a result, Neville became one of the only African American recording artists to win a Grammy within the Country genre. Aaron's 1995 R&B flavoured release, The Tattooed Heart, featuring covers of classics by Bill Withers and Kris Kristofferson went gold, while 1997's pop-orientated ...To Make Me Who I Am included songwriting contributions from contemporary hitmakers Babyface and Diane Warren as well as two new duets with Ronstadt, including a cover of "The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face." This was followed by a 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. The album saw Neville covering selections from the Great American Songbook, including another Ronstadt duet "The Very Thought Of You." In August 2005, his home in Eastern New Orleans was destroyed by Hurricane Katrina; he evacuated to Memphis, Tennessee, before the hurricane hit. He initially went to Austin temporarily visiting his friend Clifford Antone, then moved to Nashville after the storm.[7] and, failing to return to the city by early 2008, caused the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival to temporarily change its tradition of having the Neville Brothers close the festival. However, the Neville Brothers, including Aaron, returned for the 2008 Jazzfest, which returned to its traditional seven-day format for the first time since Katrina.[7] He then decided to move back to the New Orleans area, namely the North Shore city of Covington.[7] Neville performed Randy Newman's "Louisiana 1927" during NBC's A Concert for Hurricane Relief on September 2, 2005. Neville signed to SonyBMG's new Burgundy Records label in late 2005 and recorded an album of songs by Otis Redding, Marvin Gaye, Curtis Mayfield, Sam Cooke and others for Bring It On Home...The Soul Classics, released on September 19, 2006. The album, produced by Stewart Levine, features collaborations between Neville and Chaka Khan, Mavis Staples, Chris Botti, David Sanborn, Art Neville, and others. The album's first single was a remake of The Impressions' 1963 classic "It's All Right." Aaron Neville (1990) Neville's career has included work for television, movies and sporting events. Neville sang the National Anthem in the movie The Fan starring Robert De Niro and Wesley Snipes. He also sang the anthem at the WWF's SummerSlam 1993 and at WCW's Spring Stampede 1994. Neville sang the theme music to the children's TV series Fisher-Price Little People. He also sang a new version of "Cotton," for Cotton Incorporated which was introduced during the 1992 Summer Olympics. In 1988 he recorded "Mickey Mouse March" for Stay Awake: Various Interpretations of Music from Vintage Disney Films, one of Various Artists. In 2006, Neville performed a rendition of "The Star-Spangled Banner", alongside Aretha Franklin and Dr. John on keyboards at Super Bowl XL in Detroit, Michigan. In addition, Neville (along with brothers Art and Cyril) did background vocals for the songs "Great Heart", "Bring Back the Magic", "Homemade Music", "My Barracuda", and "Smart Woman (in a Real Short Skirt)" on Jimmy Buffett's Hot Water, released in 1988. On October 27, 2006, Neville made a guest appearance on an episode of the soap opera The Young and the Restless.[8] He sang "Stand By Me" and "Ain't No Sunshine", from his album, Bring It On Home ... The Soul Classics. In 2008 he released Gold, which includes a double album of his hits. In 2009, Neville, along with the Mt. Zion Mass Choir, released a version of the song "A Change Is Gonna Come" on the compilation album, Oh Happy Day.[9] In 2010, Neville and his brother Art performed with The Meters.[10] Neville was the featured artist for the 100th Anniversary Celebration of the University of Memphis Centennial Concert September 30, 2011, at the Cannon Center for the Performing Arts.[11] In 2011, Neville, along with The Blind Boys of Alabama and Mavis Staples had toured New Zealand.[12] In January 2013, paying tribute to the songs of his youth, Blue Note Records released Neville's My True Story, a collection of 12 doo-wop tunes, produced by Don Was and Keith Richards, with backing by musicians such as Benmont Tench and Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers.[13] In March 2015, he was named the year's recipient of the Laetare Medal. In October 2015, Keith Richards selected the song "My True Story" as one of his Desert Island Discs.[14] On June 25, 2019, The New York Times Magazine listed Aaron Neville among hundreds of artists whose material was reportedly destroyed in the 2008 Universal fire.[15] In May 2021, the 80-year old Neville announced his retirement from touring, but said he may still record albums or perform occasionally for special events or festivals.[16] Personal life Neville is from New Orleans, Louisiana. He has mixed African-American, Caucasian, and Native American (Choctaw) heritage.[17] His uncle, George "Big Chief Jolly" Landry, was lead singer of the Mardi Gras Indian group The Wild Tchoupitoulas. Neville got his facial tattoo (of a cross) when he was 16 years old. Speaking to Billboard in 2019, he recalled, "My dad made me scrub it with Brillo Pads and Octagon Soap. The skin came off, but the tattoo stayed. But some years later, I had an album out called The Tattooed Heart [in 1995], and we were doing a special thing in a tattoo parlor, so I let them go over it and outline it -- freshen it up."[18] In 2008, during a People magazine photo shoot, Neville met photographer Sarah A. Friedman, who had been hired to take a portrait of the Neville Brothers. Neville and Friedman were married November 13, 2010, in New York City at the restaurant Eleven Madison Park.[19] Neville's oldest son Ivan is also a musician and released an album, If My Ancestors Could See Me Now, in 1988, which yielded a Top 40 hit with "Not Just Another Girl." Ivan has also performed with Spin Doctors, The Rolling Stones and Bonnie Raitt, and played keyboards for Keith Richards on his first solo tour. Ivan then assembled his own band (Ivan Neville's Dumpstaphunk) which tours and frequently appears in New Orleans. Neville's third son, Jason, is a vocalist and rap artist who has performed with his father and with the Neville Brothers, notably at the 2009 New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival.[20] Neville is the uncle of journalist and Fox News personality Arthel Neville.[21] Neville is Catholic, with a devotion to St. Jude, to whom he has credited his success and survival. He wears a St. Jude Medal as a left earring.[22] Discography Studio albums Year Album Peak chart positions Certifications Label US R&B US Christ US Gospel US Jazz US AUS[23] US CAN 1966 Tell It Like It Is — — — — — — — — Par-Lo Records 1967 Like It 'Tis — — — — — — — — Minit 1986 Orchid in the Storm — — — — — — — — Rhino 1991 Warm Your Heart — — — — 44 51 Platinum Gold A&M 1993 The Grand Tour — — — — 37 — Platinum Gold A&M 1993 Aaron Neville's Soulful Christmas — — — — 36 — Platinum Gold A&M 1995 The Tattooed Heart 50 — — — 64 — Gold — A&M 1997 To Make Me Who I Am 73 — — — 188 — — — A&M 2000 Devotion — 28 7 — — — — — Chordant 2002 Humdinger — — — — — — — — EMI 2003 Believe — 14 2 — 191 — — — Telit Nature Boy: The Standards Album 85 — — 1 — — — — Verve 2005 Gospel Roots — — — — — — — — Chordant Christmas Prayer 74 14 3 — — — — — EMI Gospel 2006 Mojo Soul — — — — — — — — Music Avenue Bring It On Home... The Soul Classics 20 — — — 37 — — — Burgundy 2010 I Know I've Been Changed — — — — — — — — EMI Gospel 2013 My True Story 7 — — — 45 — — — Blue Note 2016 Apache — — — — — — — — Tell It Records Singles Peak chart positions. "—" denotes releases that did not chart. Year Single US US AC US R&B US Country CAN CAN AC AUS[23] Album 1960 "Over You" 111 — 21 — — — — Non-album song 1966 "Tell It Like It Is" 2 — 1 — 96 2 — Tell It Like It Is 1967 "She Took You for a Ride" 92 — — — — — — 1972 "Baby I'm A Want You" — — — — — — — Non-album songs 1973 "Hercules" — — — — — — — 1978 "The Greatest Love" — — — — — — — 1991 "Everybody Plays the Fool" 8 1 — — 19 — 52 Warm Your Heart "Somewhere Somebody" — 6 — — 43 15 — 1992 "Close Your Eyes" (with Linda Ronstadt) — 38 — — 90 — — 1993 "Don't Take Away My Heaven" 56 4 — — 17 12 — The Grand Tour "The Grand Tour" 90 — — 38 — — — "Don't Fall Apart on Me Tonight" — 26 — — 37 — — 1994 "I Owe You One" — — — — 51 29 — "I Fall to Pieces" (with Trisha Yearwood) — — — 72 — — — Rhythm, Country and Blues "Even If My Heart Would Break" (with Kenny G) 122 — — — — — — The Bodyguard (soundtrack) "Betcha By Golly, Wow" — — — — 32 — — The Grand Tour 1995 "Can't Stop My Heart from Loving You (The Rain Song)" 99 23 — — — — — The Tattooed Heart "For the Good Times" — — — — — — — 1996 "Use Me" — — 93 — — — — "Crazy Love" (with Robbie Robertson) — 25 — — — — — Phenomenon (soundtrack) 1997 "Say What's in My Heart" — 26 — — — — — To Make Me Who I Am 2006 "It's All Right"A — 28 — — — — — Bring It On Home... A "It's All Right" peaked at #12 on Hot Contemporary Jazz Songs. Guest singles Year Single Artist Peak chart positions Album US US AC AUS[23] CAN CAN AC 1989 "Don't Know Much" Linda Ronstadt 2 1 2 4 1 Cry Like a Rainstorm, Howl Like the Wind 1990 "All My Life" 11 1 - 10 1 "When Something Is Wrong with My Baby" 78 5 - 29 10 1996 "That's What My Love Is For" Anne Murray — - — — 15 Anne Murray "—" denotes releases that did not chart Compilation albums Greatest Hits (1990) The Very Best of Aaron Neville (2000) 20th Century Masters - The Millennium Collection: The Best of Aaron Neville (2002) Brother to Brother (2003)[24] Love Songs (2003) Aaron Neville & Friends Sky Blue Music (2007) Gold (2008) Music videos Year Video Director 1989 "Don't Know Much" 1991 "Everybody Plays The Fool" 1993 "Don't Take Away My Heaven"[25] Zack Snyder "The Grand Tour"[26] Jim Shea "Please Come Home for Christmas"[27] Bronwen Hughes 1994 "I Fall to Pieces" (w/ Trisha Yearwood) Charley Randazzo 1995 "Can't Stop My Heart From Loving You (The Rain Song)" "For the Good Times"[28] Jim Shea "Use Me" 2006 "Stand By Me" Filmography Zandalee (1991) The Fan (1996) Boycott (2001) Sandy Wexler (2017) Netflix Linda Ronstadt: The Sound of My Voice (2019) 1 AARON NEVILLE SINGS IT LIKE IT IS ON NEW COMPILATION THE BEST OF AARON NEVILLE “Who I am is a man in love with music.”  --Aaron Neville, Liner Notes, The Best Of Aaron Neville The musical melting pot of New Orleans produced a genuine singer’s singer in Aaron Neville. Bringing together influences from ‘50s doo-wop to boogie woogie, country to gospel to R&B, his sweet soulful voice is the most familiar from Nawlins’ first family of music. Now a dozen of his greatest recordings, chosen by Neville himself, are heard on The Best Of Aaron Neville edition of 20th Century Masters/The Millennium Collection (A&M/UME), released June 4, 2002. Each selection on The Best Of Aaron Neville has been digitally remastered, from the original 1966 version of his #2 pop/#1 R&B classic “Tell It Like It Is” to his Top 10 1991 masterpiece “Everybody Plays The Fool,” from The Neville Brothers’ remarkable version of Sam Cooke’s “A Change Is Gonna Come” from their gold 1989 Yellow Moon album to Aaron’s 1997 “Please Remember Me” duet with Linda Ronstadt. Also included are liner notes by the esteemed David Ritz, co-author of The Brothers Neville with Aaron, Art, Charles and Cyril Neville. Other than the Par-Lo single of “Tell It Like It Is,” the Daniel Lanois-produced “A Change Is Gonna Come” and the cowritten “I Can’t Imagine” first heard on the soundtrack to 1996’s The Truth About Cats And Dogs (and making its first appearance on a Neville album), The Best Of Aaron Neville was culled from his four non-holiday A&M albums of the ‘90s, the most commercially successful period of his solo career. His first album for the label, 1991’s Warm My Heart, was a platinum smash and featured the title song written by the 2 formidable Atlantic team of Jerry Wexler, Ahmet Ertegun and Tom Dowd, as well as “Angola Bound,” penned by Aaron and Charles. Both were co-produced by Ronstadt and George Massenburg, as were “Everybody Plays The Fool” (with Russ Kunkel) and the Rodney Crowell-Will Jennings track “Please Remember Me” from To Make Me Who I Am. The latter album is also represented on The Best Of Aaron Neville by its co-written and biographical title track and “Sweet Amelia” (named after his mother). From 1993’s platinum The Grand Tour comes Diane Warren’s “Don’t Take Away My Heaven.” From 1995’s gold The Tattooed Heart, the collection reprises “Some Days Are Made For Rain” and his inspired take on Bill Withers’ “Use Me.” Now in his fifth decade of recording, Aaron Neville continues to be inspired. The series 20th Century Masters/The Millennium Collection features new “best of” albums from the most significant music artists of the past century. AARON NEVILLE Having one of the most evocative and recognizable voices in American music, Aaron Neville is an international ambassador of New Orleans R&B, though his soaring falsetto sounds at home in many styles. Coming of age in the incredibly creative 1950s Crescent City R&B scene, Neville gained national attention with his 1966 hit “Tell It Like It Is,” the stirring ballad and #1 hit, as well as with the Wild Tchoupitoulas, a touring Mardi Gras celebration that led to the creation of the Neville Brothers band — an institution that would confirm Neville’s iconic status. Over his four-time Grammy-winning solo career, Neville has scored a string of hits including “Tell It Like It Is,” memorable duets with Linda Ronstadt including “Don’t Know Much” and a hugely popular cover of Main Ingredient’s “Everybody Plays the Fool.” With his latest album, 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.
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