December 1, 2025 • 11 mins
Aaron Nichols grew up in Bakersfield where his hardworking single mom juggled long hospital shifts and cleaning jobs to support him and his brothers. Music sparked early when he would secretly play his older brother's electric guitar, and by age 13 was excelling in lessons that his mom made possible. Years later, he reconnected with his childhood crush Felisha - they're now happily married with a young son, Jack, who cheers him on. Aaron moved to San Diego in 2013, playing local wedding and party bands while singing harmonies in church. The passing of his favorite singer, Chris Cornell, inspired him to explore his own voice, eventually booking gigs as a lead singer. In 2022, Aaron and Felisha made the leap to Nashville, where he now plays four to five nights a week, leads worship at church and has gained the confidence to audition for "The Voice," ready to take his music to the next stage.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
I've been a part of sharing the story of NBC's
The Voice since twenty sixteen, but they've been scattered across
all the digital platforms. Now all of those conversations are
in one location. Arrow dot Net, a R r Oe
dot Net. Look for that voice, Man, You've got that
look going on, Aaron Nichols. You look exactly the way
(00:20):
that I want my musicians to look.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
Sah, how you doing?
Speaker 1 (00:25):
Man? Doing? Absolutely fantastic? How is this journey with you?
Maybe because I mean, we never get to see the
authentic self. It's always the one that gets a step
on the stage, which we all want to do, and
then once you when you're off the stage, it's like, Okay,
what what happened to Aaron? Where do you go? Where
do you go?
Speaker 3 (00:41):
I don't know if you've been paying attention, but any
time my mom camera, you can't fake that level of
just uncomfortability and goofiness. Like I when I'm on the stage,
that's me. And then when I get off the stage
and I don't you know, it's that ricky Bobby.
Speaker 2 (00:53):
Then I don't know what to do with my hands.
Which camera am I looking the hat?
Speaker 1 (00:57):
I think I think the I was gonna say, I
think that's the reason why I'm a daily writer, because
I don't know what to do with it. I I've
got to always be creating something.
Speaker 3 (01:06):
Yeah, I mean that's it's I feel like I'm I'm
half comfortable on camera, but you can tell just by
watching me, like I don't know what I'm doing.
Speaker 2 (01:15):
I mean, that's that's the real me. I'm trying to
get better at it.
Speaker 3 (01:18):
But yeah, on stage on a mic, on a guitar,
just comfortable, like you know, it's like breathing. And then
you get in front of a camera, I'm like, oh God,
what am I doing here?
Speaker 1 (01:29):
Oh I'm so really I relate with you on this
only because I mean, back back in the earlier days
when when a podcast was taking place, iHeart would put
three cameras in that studio with me, and I would
sit there and go, what what what camera do I
want to look at? I'm a radio guy, man, I
have a microphone and your phones. I'm a happy camper.
Speaker 2 (01:49):
Yeah, I mean it's yeah, you're switching mediums.
Speaker 3 (01:52):
I mean, you're your audio and then all of a
sudden people got to look at you and I don't
know what to do with you.
Speaker 1 (01:57):
So now, how does Felicia fit into this, because I mean,
she's been with you the entire dang journey, hasn't she been?
Speaker 2 (02:03):
Oh yeah, yeah Felicia.
Speaker 3 (02:05):
Yeah, she's Me and her been together married for thirteen years,
dating past that, but.
Speaker 2 (02:10):
She's she's quiet. She wanted to be. Have you ever
heard of Dolly Parton's husband? Do you name him right now?
Speaker 1 (02:18):
No?
Speaker 2 (02:18):
No?
Speaker 3 (02:19):
No, exactly, And that's what she was. That's what she
wanted to be. She always told me. She's like I
wanted to be Carl Dean. I wanted to be there
in the background. People know I exist, but no one
knows what I look like. And then all of a
sudden this happened and I had to throw her on
camera for the first episode I was.
Speaker 1 (02:34):
On how did she react to that? Because I mean,
I know that my wife does not like any of
that attention, because there have been many times I've been
up on stage and I want to bring her up
and she's going, don't you even think about that?
Speaker 2 (02:45):
Yeah, So that was pretty much where she would be.
Speaker 3 (02:47):
I think we got the lucky part where she had
our little our baby he's twenty months old now, he was,
you know, six months younger and that then, but that
was a lot to do with, so she didn't have
the luxury of thinking about anything going on. It was
just holding the baby and making sure he wasn't freaking out.
Probably helped a lot, but yeah, she still didn't love it.
I think looking back, she's a little more happy to
(03:08):
be part of it as a memory as a big
event in our life, but yeah, she did not want
to be on camera.
Speaker 1 (03:15):
Is there a part of your creative process that realizes
that your roots are into church and God is working
through you to reach beyond the four walls of that church,
that there are people out there that won't go. But man,
here you come, arin, I'm going to bring the word.
Speaker 2 (03:30):
Oh you kidding man? Hundred percent.
Speaker 3 (03:32):
That's been a big part of my life since day
one and always on the forefront of my mind.
Speaker 2 (03:36):
Anything I do try to represent them well and doing
my best, even like some of the study. It's one
of those things you can't help it.
Speaker 3 (03:45):
You start writing sometimes you're not trying to write like
a worship album, but the songs you write anyway just
reflect that part of your life and him hopefully, Well, yeah,
that's a yeah, that's one hundred percent man, and that's big,
this huge part of my life.
Speaker 1 (04:01):
Well, worship music has changed so much because I am
a proud, loving member of Elevation Church. It's right here
in my town. And so to experience Elevation Worship and
to see where people like yourself, Aaron, are growing, it's like,
oh my God, it's happening and it's unbelievably beautiful.
Speaker 3 (04:18):
It's a it's been amazing, man. I'm part of a
church here in town. They were also they started in
Australia and they got campuses now a couple of places
all over the world called City Point Wow.
Speaker 2 (04:28):
But it was just there is you can feel the
change out there.
Speaker 4 (04:32):
Man.
Speaker 3 (04:32):
It's God's doing some crazy things and it's blown up
everywhere and you nowhere better to see it than your
own home church. But it's uh, it's been amazing and
I'm just glad to be part of it. Whatever part
I play in that, Please.
Speaker 1 (04:46):
Do not move. There's more with Aaron Nichols from NBC's
The Voice coming up next NBC's The Voice. We are
back with Aaron Nichols. Well, you've got to be charged
up with the fact that there are people that are
taking worship music and they I always call it the
whisper speak, and that is they'll be singing it or
just saying something from one of those songs right in
the middle of a grocery store or a home depot,
(05:07):
and you're going, I know where you've been, I know
where you've been.
Speaker 3 (05:12):
Yep, yep. Yeah, that's it's it's been. It's crazy where
it's headed, and I'm just happy to be.
Speaker 1 (05:20):
You know.
Speaker 3 (05:20):
It's one of those things where people are just happy
to be part of something giant happening. And every time
I look around and I see all this, it's the
same feeling. It's it's like I am I'm nothing. I'm
just the kid from Bakersfield that plays guitar and sings
and yelled at people from the stage.
Speaker 2 (05:37):
It to be the fact that I'm included in.
Speaker 3 (05:40):
Part of this giant, you know, overarching thing going on
in the world right now.
Speaker 1 (05:44):
It's just humbling you coming from Bakersfield. Is that not
buck Owens Country?
Speaker 2 (05:50):
Oh? It is buck Owens Country.
Speaker 3 (05:52):
And I just got me a just got me a
buck Owen's signature of Fender guitar. So if I get
back on it, if I get back on after playoffs,
well to see how that turns out. But if I
end up getting back on I will definitely be playing
that guitar on screen.
Speaker 1 (06:06):
Can you imagine if Buck Owens would have been one
of the guest judges or even just one of the
coaches or mentors on NBC's The Voice, because I'll bet
you he'd go in there and he would sit down
and say, Man, you gotta know what the people are are.
The people are where it's at. You gotta go where
they are, and you gotta and give him some funny
because they like funny. But then you got to write
a country song they can sing.
Speaker 2 (06:26):
Oh my god, I would have I would have lost
my mind. I love Buck Owns and Merle Haggard, the
other hometown hero. Oh my god, Yes, well you.
Speaker 4 (06:34):
Got a yacht heeha and Buck Owns and Roy Clark
and man, yeah, I'm a giant old school buck Owens
and anything the Bakersfield sounds sixties country, seventies countries.
Speaker 2 (06:45):
So I would have lost my mind.
Speaker 3 (06:46):
Now I would have definitely had him try to sing
streets of Bakersfield, isn't there?
Speaker 1 (06:50):
Wow? Was it a culture shock to go from Bakersfield
to Nashville.
Speaker 3 (06:56):
Not really for the weird thing is is I grew
up raised by people from Oklahoma and Arkansas and Bakersfield,
Like my family roots are all there, Like if you
listen to my parents talk, they still have a Southern
accent and they were technically born and like Bakersfield or
the Bakersfield area the culture shock. I lived in San
Diego for nine years between the two, and that felt
(07:19):
different than me moving Bakersfield just straight to Nashville. It's
a Bakersild's a funny little town man like A. It's
just it's it's like a little pocket of farming and southern.
The biggest things there are buck Owens, Merle Haggard, the
rodeo farming. And then I moved to San Diego for
nine years. I'm like, oh, this is different. And then
(07:39):
I moved to Nashville.
Speaker 1 (07:40):
Like so then, oh, goh my god, going to San
Diego with that, with that guitar, I mean that, You're right,
I mean that, that to me is future city us A.
Speaker 2 (07:52):
Yeah, it's a it was.
Speaker 3 (07:54):
It was this beechy culture, you know, like I was.
I just grew up in the dirt and fields and
then all of a sudden you go there and everybody's
all tan and gorgeous, and all they wanted to do
is hang out by the water. I was like, oh,
this is new, all right, this is weird so different.
That was more with the culture shock than Nashville.
Speaker 1 (08:10):
When you would borrow your brother's guitar, and I'm not
saying that you would you go in there and secretly
play when you would borrow those moments. Did he know
that right away? Because I know that when people would
grab my ibanass, flying v and my family. I mean
I knew it because they were messing around with my
friends and my friends are so important to me.
Speaker 3 (08:30):
Yeah, he knew, and he would try to tell me
to stop, but you know, I mean he's not around
all the time, and I just probably at the time just.
Speaker 2 (08:38):
Lie to him.
Speaker 3 (08:39):
What'll be talking about? It's crazy on touching your guitar.
But he definitely knew because I think I've played it
around him. Just like after a while, once the whole
you know, leave my stuff alone wore off, he just
didn't care anymore.
Speaker 2 (08:53):
Yeah, eventually it became my guitar.
Speaker 3 (08:55):
He just gave up on guitar sounds so messed up,
Like I just played so much that He's like I
don't care anymore.
Speaker 1 (09:02):
Do you ever sit there and wonder that what other
instrument would it have been if it wouldn't have been
a guitar, would you've taken up the piano or would
you taken up you know? I mean? Because I mean
music is going to appear in your life no matter what.
You don't go looking for it, it finds you.
Speaker 3 (09:15):
Yeah, the piano is where I started just because of
what we had were keyboards around. But I'll tell you
what happened is my mom worked her butt off just
put me in the piano lessons. And I'm that brain
type that the classic piano lessons are torture to me.
Speaker 2 (09:33):
It's like pulling teeth yep.
Speaker 3 (09:35):
Sitting there playing Mary had a little lamb to a
book is the worst thing you can do to a
crazy you know, scatterbrand little boy. And then all of
a sudden, years later on I pick up the guitar.
I think God just put the right people in my life.
I had this teacher, Bunkie Spurling the Bakersfield Blues guitar
teaching legend, and instead of going in there busting on
(09:55):
a book and here's Mary had a little amb Neither
of the notes you're playing all, he said. I was
playing about a year by then, so I knew how
to finger a couple of chords and play a couple
of little things here and there. But he's like, what
do you want to learn how to play? Yeah, there's
the best question you can ask a student. And I
was like, I want to learn this song. He's like,
bring me the CD. At the time CD that's how
old lamb. It's like, bring me the CD. We'll sit
(10:16):
down and we'll pick it and I'll draw exactly how
you're supposed to play this on a little picture of
a fret board pretty much.
Speaker 2 (10:21):
And from there I was just hooked.
Speaker 4 (10:23):
Man.
Speaker 3 (10:23):
It wasn't you know, sit down to this boring book
and play a song you hate? It was what do
you want to learn how to play? Let's do That
made all the difference in the world.
Speaker 1 (10:31):
Where can people go to find out more about you?
Because I want them to be in love with your
journey and grow with you, because you're going to be
well beyond NBC's the voice.
Speaker 2 (10:41):
I appreciate your ara.
Speaker 3 (10:43):
I mean, like this, I don't have a website, and
I should, but again, I'm still new to all this.
But the best place to find me is an official
Aaron Nichols on Instagram, or just look up Aaron Nichols
on Facebook or just google Aaron Nichols The Voice. I'm
sure there's a bunch of articles, fake orial about me
out there.
Speaker 2 (11:03):
It's been fun.
Speaker 1 (11:06):
Well, when you come to Charlotte and you play at
Kyote Joe's, Man, we got to get together for some
face to face time.
Speaker 2 (11:11):
Oh man, I need to get back to Charlotte. It'spence.
It's been a while.
Speaker 3 (11:14):
We only got to go through there like once and
it was just for a friend of mine. Wasn't even
like a venue I was playing. But yeah, I'll definitely
get back to you all Charlotte, and it's happening probably.
Speaker 2 (11:25):
Twenty twenty six or beyond.
Speaker 3 (11:26):
But I got to start setting up whole bunch of
dates and start playing these songs out there.
Speaker 2 (11:30):
Man. But I appreciate you taking the time to speak
with me.
Speaker 1 (11:33):
Well, please come back anytime. The door is always going
to be open for you.
Speaker 2 (11:36):
Erin. Thank you, man, I appreciate you so much.
Speaker 1 (11:39):
Will you be brilliant today? Okay, I'll work on it
every day.
Speaker 2 (11:44):
You too,
I've been a part of sharing the story of NBC's
The Voice since twenty sixteen, but they've been scattered across
all the digital platforms. Now all of those conversations are
in one location. Arrow dot Net, a R r Oe
dot Net. Look for that voice, Man, You've got that
look going on, Aaron Nichols. You look exactly the way
(00:20):
that I want my musicians to look.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
Sah, how you doing?
Speaker 1 (00:25):
Man? Doing? Absolutely fantastic? How is this journey with you?
Maybe because I mean, we never get to see the
authentic self. It's always the one that gets a step
on the stage, which we all want to do, and
then once you when you're off the stage, it's like, Okay,
what what happened to Aaron? Where do you go? Where
do you go?
Speaker 3 (00:41):
I don't know if you've been paying attention, but any
time my mom camera, you can't fake that level of
just uncomfortability and goofiness. Like I when I'm on the stage,
that's me. And then when I get off the stage
and I don't you know, it's that ricky Bobby.
Speaker 2 (00:53):
Then I don't know what to do with my hands.
Which camera am I looking the hat?
Speaker 1 (00:57):
I think I think the I was gonna say, I
think that's the reason why I'm a daily writer, because
I don't know what to do with it. I I've
got to always be creating something.
Speaker 3 (01:06):
Yeah, I mean that's it's I feel like I'm I'm
half comfortable on camera, but you can tell just by
watching me, like I don't know what I'm doing.
Speaker 2 (01:15):
I mean, that's that's the real me. I'm trying to
get better at it.
Speaker 3 (01:18):
But yeah, on stage on a mic, on a guitar,
just comfortable, like you know, it's like breathing. And then
you get in front of a camera, I'm like, oh God,
what am I doing here?
Speaker 1 (01:29):
Oh I'm so really I relate with you on this
only because I mean, back back in the earlier days
when when a podcast was taking place, iHeart would put
three cameras in that studio with me, and I would
sit there and go, what what what camera do I
want to look at? I'm a radio guy, man, I
have a microphone and your phones. I'm a happy camper.
Speaker 2 (01:49):
Yeah, I mean it's yeah, you're switching mediums.
Speaker 3 (01:52):
I mean, you're your audio and then all of a
sudden people got to look at you and I don't
know what to do with you.
Speaker 1 (01:57):
So now, how does Felicia fit into this, because I mean,
she's been with you the entire dang journey, hasn't she been?
Speaker 2 (02:03):
Oh yeah, yeah Felicia.
Speaker 3 (02:05):
Yeah, she's Me and her been together married for thirteen years,
dating past that, but.
Speaker 2 (02:10):
She's she's quiet. She wanted to be. Have you ever
heard of Dolly Parton's husband? Do you name him right now?
Speaker 1 (02:18):
No?
Speaker 2 (02:18):
No?
Speaker 3 (02:19):
No, exactly, And that's what she was. That's what she
wanted to be. She always told me. She's like I
wanted to be Carl Dean. I wanted to be there
in the background. People know I exist, but no one
knows what I look like. And then all of a
sudden this happened and I had to throw her on
camera for the first episode I was.
Speaker 1 (02:34):
On how did she react to that? Because I mean,
I know that my wife does not like any of
that attention, because there have been many times I've been
up on stage and I want to bring her up
and she's going, don't you even think about that?
Speaker 2 (02:45):
Yeah, So that was pretty much where she would be.
Speaker 3 (02:47):
I think we got the lucky part where she had
our little our baby he's twenty months old now, he was,
you know, six months younger and that then, but that
was a lot to do with, so she didn't have
the luxury of thinking about anything going on. It was
just holding the baby and making sure he wasn't freaking out.
Probably helped a lot, but yeah, she still didn't love it.
I think looking back, she's a little more happy to
(03:08):
be part of it as a memory as a big
event in our life, but yeah, she did not want
to be on camera.
Speaker 1 (03:15):
Is there a part of your creative process that realizes
that your roots are into church and God is working
through you to reach beyond the four walls of that church,
that there are people out there that won't go. But man,
here you come, arin, I'm going to bring the word.
Speaker 2 (03:30):
Oh you kidding man? Hundred percent.
Speaker 3 (03:32):
That's been a big part of my life since day
one and always on the forefront of my mind.
Speaker 2 (03:36):
Anything I do try to represent them well and doing
my best, even like some of the study. It's one
of those things you can't help it.
Speaker 3 (03:45):
You start writing sometimes you're not trying to write like
a worship album, but the songs you write anyway just
reflect that part of your life and him hopefully, Well, yeah,
that's a yeah, that's one hundred percent man, and that's big,
this huge part of my life.
Speaker 1 (04:01):
Well, worship music has changed so much because I am
a proud, loving member of Elevation Church. It's right here
in my town. And so to experience Elevation Worship and
to see where people like yourself, Aaron, are growing, it's like,
oh my God, it's happening and it's unbelievably beautiful.
Speaker 3 (04:18):
It's a it's been amazing, man. I'm part of a
church here in town. They were also they started in
Australia and they got campuses now a couple of places
all over the world called City Point Wow.
Speaker 2 (04:28):
But it was just there is you can feel the
change out there.
Speaker 4 (04:32):
Man.
Speaker 3 (04:32):
It's God's doing some crazy things and it's blown up
everywhere and you nowhere better to see it than your
own home church. But it's uh, it's been amazing and
I'm just glad to be part of it. Whatever part
I play in that, Please.
Speaker 1 (04:46):
Do not move. There's more with Aaron Nichols from NBC's
The Voice coming up next NBC's The Voice. We are
back with Aaron Nichols. Well, you've got to be charged
up with the fact that there are people that are
taking worship music and they I always call it the
whisper speak, and that is they'll be singing it or
just saying something from one of those songs right in
the middle of a grocery store or a home depot,
(05:07):
and you're going, I know where you've been, I know
where you've been.
Speaker 3 (05:12):
Yep, yep. Yeah, that's it's it's been. It's crazy where
it's headed, and I'm just happy to be.
Speaker 1 (05:20):
You know.
Speaker 3 (05:20):
It's one of those things where people are just happy
to be part of something giant happening. And every time
I look around and I see all this, it's the
same feeling. It's it's like I am I'm nothing. I'm
just the kid from Bakersfield that plays guitar and sings
and yelled at people from the stage.
Speaker 2 (05:37):
It to be the fact that I'm included in.
Speaker 3 (05:40):
Part of this giant, you know, overarching thing going on
in the world right now.
Speaker 1 (05:44):
It's just humbling you coming from Bakersfield. Is that not
buck Owens Country?
Speaker 2 (05:50):
Oh? It is buck Owens Country.
Speaker 3 (05:52):
And I just got me a just got me a
buck Owen's signature of Fender guitar. So if I get
back on it, if I get back on after playoffs,
well to see how that turns out. But if I
end up getting back on I will definitely be playing
that guitar on screen.
Speaker 1 (06:06):
Can you imagine if Buck Owens would have been one
of the guest judges or even just one of the
coaches or mentors on NBC's The Voice, because I'll bet
you he'd go in there and he would sit down
and say, Man, you gotta know what the people are are.
The people are where it's at. You gotta go where
they are, and you gotta and give him some funny
because they like funny. But then you got to write
a country song they can sing.
Speaker 2 (06:26):
Oh my god, I would have I would have lost
my mind. I love Buck Owns and Merle Haggard, the
other hometown hero. Oh my god, Yes, well you.
Speaker 4 (06:34):
Got a yacht heeha and Buck Owns and Roy Clark
and man, yeah, I'm a giant old school buck Owens
and anything the Bakersfield sounds sixties country, seventies countries.
Speaker 2 (06:45):
So I would have lost my mind.
Speaker 3 (06:46):
Now I would have definitely had him try to sing
streets of Bakersfield, isn't there?
Speaker 1 (06:50):
Wow? Was it a culture shock to go from Bakersfield
to Nashville.
Speaker 3 (06:56):
Not really for the weird thing is is I grew
up raised by people from Oklahoma and Arkansas and Bakersfield,
Like my family roots are all there, Like if you
listen to my parents talk, they still have a Southern
accent and they were technically born and like Bakersfield or
the Bakersfield area the culture shock. I lived in San
Diego for nine years between the two, and that felt
(07:19):
different than me moving Bakersfield just straight to Nashville. It's
a Bakersild's a funny little town man like A. It's
just it's it's like a little pocket of farming and southern.
The biggest things there are buck Owens, Merle Haggard, the
rodeo farming. And then I moved to San Diego for
nine years. I'm like, oh, this is different. And then
(07:39):
I moved to Nashville.
Speaker 1 (07:40):
Like so then, oh, goh my god, going to San
Diego with that, with that guitar, I mean that, You're right,
I mean that, that to me is future city us A.
Speaker 2 (07:52):
Yeah, it's a it was.
Speaker 3 (07:54):
It was this beechy culture, you know, like I was.
I just grew up in the dirt and fields and
then all of a sudden you go there and everybody's
all tan and gorgeous, and all they wanted to do
is hang out by the water. I was like, oh,
this is new, all right, this is weird so different.
That was more with the culture shock than Nashville.
Speaker 1 (08:10):
When you would borrow your brother's guitar, and I'm not
saying that you would you go in there and secretly
play when you would borrow those moments. Did he know
that right away? Because I know that when people would
grab my ibanass, flying v and my family. I mean
I knew it because they were messing around with my
friends and my friends are so important to me.
Speaker 3 (08:30):
Yeah, he knew, and he would try to tell me
to stop, but you know, I mean he's not around
all the time, and I just probably at the time just.
Speaker 2 (08:38):
Lie to him.
Speaker 3 (08:39):
What'll be talking about? It's crazy on touching your guitar.
But he definitely knew because I think I've played it
around him. Just like after a while, once the whole
you know, leave my stuff alone wore off, he just
didn't care anymore.
Speaker 2 (08:53):
Yeah, eventually it became my guitar.
Speaker 3 (08:55):
He just gave up on guitar sounds so messed up,
Like I just played so much that He's like I
don't care anymore.
Speaker 1 (09:02):
Do you ever sit there and wonder that what other
instrument would it have been if it wouldn't have been
a guitar, would you've taken up the piano or would
you taken up you know? I mean? Because I mean
music is going to appear in your life no matter what.
You don't go looking for it, it finds you.
Speaker 3 (09:15):
Yeah, the piano is where I started just because of
what we had were keyboards around. But I'll tell you
what happened is my mom worked her butt off just
put me in the piano lessons. And I'm that brain
type that the classic piano lessons are torture to me.
Speaker 2 (09:33):
It's like pulling teeth yep.
Speaker 3 (09:35):
Sitting there playing Mary had a little lamb to a
book is the worst thing you can do to a
crazy you know, scatterbrand little boy. And then all of
a sudden, years later on I pick up the guitar.
I think God just put the right people in my life.
I had this teacher, Bunkie Spurling the Bakersfield Blues guitar
teaching legend, and instead of going in there busting on
(09:55):
a book and here's Mary had a little amb Neither
of the notes you're playing all, he said. I was
playing about a year by then, so I knew how
to finger a couple of chords and play a couple
of little things here and there. But he's like, what
do you want to learn how to play? Yeah, there's
the best question you can ask a student. And I
was like, I want to learn this song. He's like,
bring me the CD. At the time CD that's how
old lamb. It's like, bring me the CD. We'll sit
(10:16):
down and we'll pick it and I'll draw exactly how
you're supposed to play this on a little picture of
a fret board pretty much.
Speaker 2 (10:21):
And from there I was just hooked.
Speaker 4 (10:23):
Man.
Speaker 3 (10:23):
It wasn't you know, sit down to this boring book
and play a song you hate? It was what do
you want to learn how to play? Let's do That
made all the difference in the world.
Speaker 1 (10:31):
Where can people go to find out more about you?
Because I want them to be in love with your
journey and grow with you, because you're going to be
well beyond NBC's the voice.
Speaker 2 (10:41):
I appreciate your ara.
Speaker 3 (10:43):
I mean, like this, I don't have a website, and
I should, but again, I'm still new to all this.
But the best place to find me is an official
Aaron Nichols on Instagram, or just look up Aaron Nichols
on Facebook or just google Aaron Nichols The Voice. I'm
sure there's a bunch of articles, fake orial about me
out there.
Speaker 2 (11:03):
It's been fun.
Speaker 1 (11:06):
Well, when you come to Charlotte and you play at
Kyote Joe's, Man, we got to get together for some
face to face time.
Speaker 2 (11:11):
Oh man, I need to get back to Charlotte. It'spence.
It's been a while.
Speaker 3 (11:14):
We only got to go through there like once and
it was just for a friend of mine. Wasn't even
like a venue I was playing. But yeah, I'll definitely
get back to you all Charlotte, and it's happening probably.
Speaker 2 (11:25):
Twenty twenty six or beyond.
Speaker 3 (11:26):
But I got to start setting up whole bunch of
dates and start playing these songs out there.
Speaker 2 (11:30):
Man. But I appreciate you taking the time to speak
with me.
Speaker 1 (11:33):
Well, please come back anytime. The door is always going
to be open for you.
Speaker 2 (11:36):
Erin. Thank you, man, I appreciate you so much.
Speaker 1 (11:39):
Will you be brilliant today? Okay, I'll work on it
every day.
Speaker 2 (11:44):
You too,
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