![]() "And Aaron is like a little kid in a lot of ways." Adds Morty Wiggins of Bill Graham Management, Mr. Neville on "Yellow Moon," an acclaimed 1989 album by the Neville Brothers. "Often, facades are there to hide a simple part of our personalities," says Daniel Lanois, a music producer who worked with Mr. Neville, 53, is a burly man whose huge upper arms, amateur tattoos and forbidding expression are seemingly at odds with his tremulous, startlingly pure voice and incongruously soft, high giggle. "Like I always say, I'm singing for the people I knew that didn't have a song - because that could of been me, you know?" "Everything I've done and seen gave me something to feel, something to sing about," he says, sitting in a living room that's probably bigger than the entire house where he used to live. And in the middle of it all, looking undersized and worn, is the spray-painted record.Ĭlearly, it will take more than a few years of good fortune for Aaron Neville to forget his days of no money, of jail time and drug addiction. ![]() Its walls are lined with real gold records. Ronstadt and the funk rhythm-and-blues records he made with the Neville Brothers. To the left of the marble entryway is a full-fledged trophy room, its shelves bearing the Grammy Awards he won for the lush pop songs he recorded with Ms. These days, after hit duets with Linda Ronstadt and a flourishing solo career that includes a new album, "The Grand Tour" (A&M ), he owns a brand-new, grandiose two-story brick house on the 18th fairway of a private golf course east of the city. Neville hasn't lived in that house for about six years. Neville received neither money nor the gold plaque for that hit instead, a friend took a copy of the single, spray-painted it gold and put it in a simple frame. ![]() Amid the religious paraphernalia and publicity photos on display in his cramped, cluttered wooden "shotgun" house was a gold record for his 1966 soul ballad "Tell It Like It Is." But Mr. For years, Aaron Neville had a single badge of success on the walls of his tiny house in New Orleans's Uptown district.
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