1992: Powerline: The Best of Lee Aaron, Attic.JSTOR ( April 2020) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message).Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. Please help improve this section by adding citations to reliable sources. In 2017, Lee Aaron played a number of shows in Germany as well as an appearance at Bang Your Head Festivals and two separate gigs in London and Wolverhampton. She then went on to appear at the Rockingham 2016 melodic/hard rock festival in Nottingham, United Kingdom. Later that year she was inducted into the Brampton Arts Walk Of Fame. Self-financed and released on her own Big Sister Records, the new album was entitled Fire And Gasoline. In March, 2016, Lee Aaron released her first all-rock album in 20 years. Her eleventh album, Beautiful Things, a pop-jazz hybrid, was released in 2004.Īaron continued to play rock and selected jazz shows in 2011 she made her first appearance in Sweden at the Sweden Rock Festival. She was cast and appeared that year in an ALCAN Performing Arts Award-winning production called 101 Songs for the Marquis De Sade. In 2002, Aaron was approached to audition with the Modern Baroque Opera Company. She performed extensively in support of this release, showcasing at The Top of the Senator in Toronto and various jazz festivals across Canada and Europe. In 2000, Aaron released a jazz album, Slick Chick, on her imprint, Barking Dog Music, with distribution by Fusion 3. Īaron studied acting for a year before beginning to perform jazz and blues in Toronto with Dennis Ziebart. Neither of these recordings was commercially successful, and shortly afterwards, the Sons broke up.
On 1994's Emotional Rain (distributed by A & M Canada), Aaron recorded with Don Short and Don Binns ( Sons of Freedom), Reeves Gabrels ( David Bowie's Tin Machine), and Knox Chandler ( the Psychedelic Furs).ġ995's 2preciious was a project record written with members of Sons of Freedom, in which she dropped the name "Lee Aaron" entirely and used her real name, Karen. In 1992, Aaron left Attic Records to start her label, Hip Chic Music, and released two more albums. The album included several hit songs, including "Whatcha Do to My Body", and was certified double platinum in Canada. Her most commercially successful album was Bodyrock, released in 1989. Her 1985 album Call Of The Wild featured her well-known rock ballad "Barely Holdin On". She won three Toronto Music Awards for Best Female Vocalist and ten Juno nominations.
She released six albums on Attic Records in Canada and international releases in the United Kingdom, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Benelux, Italy, Scandinavia, Australia and Japan. īetween 19, Aaron toured extensively through Europe and made appearances in Japan and the United States. During the recording of Metal Queen, guitarist John Albani (ex- Wrabit) joined the band and he and Aaron formed a solid songwriting partnership that lasted eleven years. ġ984's recording of the album Metal Queen resulted in a multi-album deal with Attic Records. Aaron later concluded that posing for the magazine damaged her musical credibility she regretted the decision and assigned blame for it to pressure from her manager. The magazine's March 1983 issue featured Aaron on the cover and in an interview. In late 1982, Aaron flew to New York and posed topless for the men's magazine OUI. Although the album was available in the UK only as an import, Aaron was invited to appear later that year at the Reading Festival. The album featured well-known musicians of the Toronto music scene, including members of Moxy, Rif Raf3 (Q107 Homegrown Vol 4 / Lee Aaron Project band), Santers, and Triumph's Rik Emmett. She sang, played alto saxophone and keyboards in this first incarnation of the band, and took on the stage name of Lee Aaron.Īaron recorded her debut album, The Lee Aaron Project, in 1982 on Freedom Records it was later reissued on Attic. Career Īfter singing in a music production when she was fifteen years old, she was asked to join a local rock group called "Lee Aaron". The magazine printed a retraction in the following month's issue. However, years later Canadian Musician Magazine mistakenly embellished the incident into Aaron requiring complete facial reconstruction. No surgery was required, but she did suffer a broken nose and badly bruised her face. She attended high school in Brampton, Ontario.Īt age seventeen, Aaron was in a car accident. Aaron was born as Karen Lynn Greening in Belleville, Ontario, and began singing in school musicals at the age of five.
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