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Aaron Lewis, (born April 13 1972 in Rutland, Vermont, U.S.), is the lead vocalist and acoustic guitarist of the hard rock group Staind.

Background

Lewis grew up, largely, in Longmeadow, Massachusetts. Aaron Lewis was, before Staind, in a band known as J-CAT with Tori Sands, Chris Ballini, and Staind bandmate Jon Wysocki. An album surfaced on the internet with 9 of J-CAT's performances at Club Infinity in Springfield, Massachusetts. The performances were recorded while Dysfunction was being recorded. Two of Staind's popular singles—"Outside" and "It's Been Awhile"—were both originally performed by J-CAT with somewhat different lyrics.

Lewis is renowned for his songwriting skills and has been nominated for 3 Grammys. His hobbies include fishing, golf and riding his mini dirt bike. He has worked in landscaping, cleaned hotel rooms, and played solo acoustic sets in bars around Atlanta. He is married to Vanessa Lewis and has two daughters, Zoe Jane and Nyla Rae and are expecting their 3rd daughter sometime November 2007. Aaron has two sisters Yvette and Rachel. He was also featured on a remix for the song "Crawling" on Linkin Park's album Reanimation (the remix is titled "Krwling" on the album), as well as Sevendust's album Animosity, in which he contributed vocals to the song "Follow" and on the songs "Bleed" and "Send In the Clowns" by the band "Cold." He's also featured on Jimmie's Chicken Shack's song "Falling Out," the only single off their 2004 album re.present

On November 4, 2006, Aaron performed at his old high school in Longmeadow and gave all the proceeds to the music department to fund the department's expenses to buy new equipment and supplies.

Aaron Lewis is currently in talks about working on a solo CD, that is expected to be much like his acoustic tour.

Songs performed on Aaron Lewis solo tour

  • Home
  • Excess Baggage
  • Fade
  • It's Been Awhile
  • Epiphany
  • Waste
  • Outside
  • So Far Away
  • Fill Me Up
  • Layne
  • Zoe Jane
  • Intro
  • Let it Out
  • Black Rain
  • Novacaine
  • Right Here
  • Schizophrenic Conversations
  • Falling
  • Devil
  • Please
  • Everything Changes
  • Take This
  • Reply
  • Something Like Me
  • Angel (unreleased working titled)
  • Sleeping at the Wheel (unreleased working titled)
  • Massachusetts (unreleased working titled)
  • Anywhere But Here (unreleased working titled)
  • Summer Rain (unreleased demo)
  • Untitled HS Song (unreleased)
  • Still Tangled Up in You (unreleased working title)
  • Bonghits for Breakfast
  • This is Beetle

Cover songs

  • Disarm (Smashing Pumpkins)
  • Blood and Fire (Indigo Girls)
  • Nutshell (Alice in Chains)
  • Tangerine (Led Zeppelin)
  • Release (Pearl Jam)
  • I Remember You (Skid Row)
  • Sympathy For The Devil (Rolling Stones)
  • Moondance (Van Morrison)
  • On And On (Stephen Bishop)
  • Piano Man (Billy Joel)
  • Closer To Fine (Indigo Girls)
  • Shooting Star (Bad Company)
  • Redemption Song (Bob Marley)
  • Sober (Tool)
  • Black (Pearl Jam)
  • For What It's Worth (Buffalo Springfield)
  • Rooster (Alice in Chains)
  • War Pigs (Black Sabbath)
  • You've Got To Hide Your Love Away (The Beatles)
  • Bad (U2)
  • Behind Blue Eyes (The Who)
  • Elderly Woman... (Pearl Jam)
  • Down In A Hole (Alice in Chains)
  • Rocky Raccoon (The Beatles)
  • In Your Eyes (Peter Gabriel)
  • Patience (Guns N' Roses)
  • Don't Follow (Alice in Chains)
  • Seagull (Bad Company)
  • Creep (Radiohead)
  • Puff The Magic Dragon (Peter, Paul, & Mary)
  • Rainbow Connection (Kermit the Frog/Jim Hensen)
  • She Talks To Angels (The Black Crows)
  • River Of Deceit (Mad Season)
  • Knocking On Heaven's Door (Both Guns N' Roses's and Bob Dylan's versions)
  • .45 (Shinedown)
  • Yesterday (The Beatles)
  • Comfortably Numb (Pink Floyd)
  • Wish You Were Here (Pink Floyd)
  • You Can't Always Get What You Want (Rolling Stones)
  • Blackbird (The Beatles)
  • Van Diemen's Land (U2)
  • Going To California (Led Zeppelin)
  • Brother (Alice in Chains)
  • Garden (Pearl Jam)
  • Me And Bobby Mcgee (Janis Joplin)
  • Desire (U2)
  • Even Flow (Pearl Jam)
  • Plush (Stone Temple Pilots)
  • Feel Like Making Love (Bad Company)
  • Ready For Love (Bad Company)
  • Hurt (Nine Inch Nails)
  • All Apologies (Nirvana)
  • Dazed And Confused (Led Zeppelin)
  • Blister In The Sun (Violent Femmes)
  • Dead Or Alive (Bon Jovi)

Teaser songs that he only plays short clips from

  • Hotel California (The Eagles)
  • Desperado (The Eagles)
  • Signs (5 Man Electrical Band)
  • Bring It On Home (Led Zeppelin)
  • The End (The Doors)
  • Freebird (Lynyrd Skynyrd)
  • Sweet Home Alabama (Lynyrd Skynyrd)
  • Love On The Rocks (Neil Diamond)
  • More Than Words (Extreme)
  • The Needle And The Damage Done (Neil Young)
  • Faith (George Michael)
  • Signs (ace of base)
  • Be Quiet And Drive (deftones)
  • Stairway To Heaven (Led Zeppelin)
  • I Saw Red (Warrent)
  • Let Her Cry (Hootie and the Blowfish)
  • When The Children Cry (White Lion)
  • Summer Of '69 (Bryan Adams)
  • Wait (white Lion)
  • I Walk The Line (Johnny Cash)
  • American Pie (Don McClean)
  • Beth (Kiss)
  • Low Rider (War)
  • Turn On Your Heart Light (Neil Diamond)
  • I Want It That Way (Back Street Boys)
  • Bringing Sexy Back (Justin Timberlake)
  • Vera (Pink Floyd)
  • Save Your Love (Great White)
  • Sister Christian (Night Ranger)
  • What's Going on? (4 Non Blondes)
  • Master Of Puppets (Metallica)
  • Love Song (Tesla)
  • Glycerine (Bush)
  • Fast Car (Tracy Chapman)
  • The Freshman (The Verve Pipe)
  • Wonderful Tonight (Eric Clapton)
  • What I Am (Edie Brickell)
  • Right Here Right Now (Jesus Jones)
  • Photograph (Nickelback)
  • Holy Diver (Dio)
  • Hold On Loosely (.38 Special)
  • Motel 6 Jingle (Tom Bodett)
  • Night Moves (Bob Seger)
  • Friends In Low Places (Garth Brooks)
  • Green Acres (TV THEME)
  • Happy Birthday Song
  • Lips Of An Angel (Hinder)
  • One (U2)
  • Father and Son (Van Morrison)
  • The Mmmmmmmmm Song (Crash Test Dummies)
  • Rainbow Connection (Kermit the Frog)
  • Dust in the Wind (Kansas)
  •  • [ e] Staind
Aaron Lewis | Mike Mushok | Jon Wysocki | Johnny April
Discography
Albums: Tormented | Dysfunction | Break the Cycle | 14 Shades of Grey | Chapter V
Compilations:
Singles: Just Go | Mudshovel | Home | It's Been Awhile | Outside | Fade | For You | Epiphany | Price to Play
So Far Away | How About You | Zoe Jane | Right Here | Falling | Everything Changes | King of All Excuses
DVDs: MTV Unplugged |

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