Aaron Lines is almost too good to be true. The 27-year old Canadian country star has a heart as wide-open as the plains of the working class North Canadian town where he grew up – and a dream that's even bigger than the sky above it. But even more importantly, the soft-spoken guitarist remains true to the basic blue collar values that forged his formative years – and have defined what many might call a Cinderella ride through the ranks of the music business.                 

“I grew up in a close family… We weren't rich, but we weren't poor,” explains the shy young man who had a #1 record on his hometown radio station while still in high school. “You know, we had problems like any other family, so I'm really similar to a lot of people out there. It's kind of why I feel like if a song is relatable to me, it's most likely gonna be something a lot of other people are gonna relate to.”  

“There's a song called ‘The Lights of My Hometown' that goes back to me growing up a regular kid. I mean, I lived in a town that I loved, but was too small for the dreams I was dreaming. You leave thinking the world has a lot more to offer than your hometown, only to realize years down the road that no matter where you grow up, you will never be able to recreate the innocence and feeling of ‘home' anywhere else in the world. No matter who you are, or where that little town is, that's something we all have in common.”                  

And it's those commonalities that set Lines apart. Where so many aspiring artists can't get enough distance from where they came from, Aaron Lines thinks it's the very thing that binds him to every other music lover hoping to find definition in the way their life is actually lived rather than a two-dimensional Hallmark reality.   

 

BIOGRAPHY COURTESY OF

www.AaronLines.Com 

QUICK FACTS

Birthday:
November 17, 1977

Hometown:
Fort McMurray, AB