Aaron Tippin
Aaron Tippin ( born July 3, 1958 in Pensacola, Florida) is an American country music singer and songwriter.
Aaron grew up on a farm in rural South Carolina. As the son of a pilot, he developed alongside his enthusiasm for country music early on a passion for flying. At age 16, he earned a first pilot's license. Due to the bad job prospects, he moved into the music business. With odd jobs he gave initially the necessary financial backing. In the evening he performed in local clubs.
His first marriage failed early. A talented athlete, he intensified his body building training and successfully participated in local competitions (on Vinyl Covers and press he later admitted it rarely present in macho pose his toned upper body).
Career
In 1986 he moved to Nashville Tippin, where he found work as a songwriter at the prestigious Accuff - Rose -Verlag. A demo tape was in the late eighties the way to the RCA label, which later took him a little under contract. In 1990 his first single, Something With A Ring On It In the same year he made his debut album, You've Got To Stand For Something.
The breakthrough came in 1992 with his second album. Read Between The Lines reached platinum status and it was coupled with There Is not Nothing Wrong With The Radio a number 1 hit. At all songs Tippin was involved as co-author. His winning streak continued in the third album. Call Of The Wild went gold. But his singles came in the next few years does not mean singles chart rankings addition. In 1995 he married the songwriter Thea Corontzos. In the same year he made with That's As Close As I'll Get To Loving You his second top position in the country charts.
The sales of his records eased steadily. In 1996, he lost his recording contract. Even with the smaller, the Disney corporation associated Lyric Street label he could not reverse the downward trend, although it is by his single For You I Will still managed a top ten finish in 1998. Only in 2000 he succeeded with its also published in " Lyric Street" album People Like Us, which reached gold status within a very short time, making a comeback. With the number - one single KissThis he spent 33 weeks on the country charts.