November 16, 2025 • 19 mins
Aiden grew up in the same college town where he currently studies engineering at Texas A&M. Now entering his sophomore year, he's a proud member of the elite a cappella group HardChord DynaMix, where he's honed his skills in harmony and performance. Aiden's love for music began with school musicals, family sing-alongs and learning to play the guitar as a teen. He has performed at local events and on his family's farm, Rockberry Ranch, outside San Antonio. Inspired by artists such as Billie Eilish and Lizzy McAlpine, Aiden loves reimagining female-led tracks in his own unique style and is ready to bring that style to the show that he's loved since he was a little boy.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
I've always believed in one mantra, share your story or
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to grow inside this podcast world, there's a lot of
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the vision as well as the path. How you doing, Naden?
Everything going, Okay.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
I'm trying my best, man, I'm trying.
Speaker 1 (00:23):
And what does that include when you say trying your best?
Because being a third degree black belt, my martial artist
instructor would say, give me your best and then I
would move something. He'd say, that's not your best. You
did it, and it's like, oh god, there's a difference
between trying and actually doing. So when you say you're
trying your best, what are you trying?
Speaker 2 (00:42):
Man? I think for me, the biggest area that like
I had to realize, like the biggest step that I
realized I hadn't been taking before the show was just
time management. Yep. I mean I think I've really had
to do that this past semester with just still being
in school while also trying to write, while also trying
to travel to get my songs reduced, while also just
creating content for the show. I've really had to lay
(01:04):
out a schedule. I'm gonna really feel like the structure
that I've like created for myself now is like what's
really pushing me over the edge for that right now, for.
Speaker 1 (01:11):
The love of god, you're only twenty years old. What
are you talking about schedules for it? Let me in
on that, because there are so many twenty year olds
right now that are going I don't know, maybe I'll
get there, but look at you all focused and everything. Dude.
Speaker 3 (01:22):
Yeah, man, I mean, I just it's I mean being
twenty man. I mean, maybe it's not now or never,
but I want it now. Yep, I want it now.
I'm ready for it.
Speaker 2 (01:31):
And so it really depends on the day. But for
an example, like today, I woke up, made some breakfasts,
hopped on this, hopped on.
Speaker 3 (01:41):
This series of calls.
Speaker 2 (01:43):
I'm gonna go I'm gonna go work out, and then
I'm gonna go look at a production place and called.
Speaker 3 (01:48):
Well that me and my dad have been connected to.
Speaker 2 (01:50):
We're gonna go check that out together, because I've typically
I've been going to Nashville for stuff of that nature.
But I think me and my dad realized that it
might be cool to check out some local spots just
because I mean, it's local, it's special and why not
And yeah, that's what that's what we have today. I'll
have rehearsals coming up. I have another rehearsal tonight for
my band for a show that we have tomorrow, and
(02:12):
then I have stand as Wonderland coming up later this week.
Speaker 1 (02:15):
Wow, you talk about, you know, local and stuff like that.
I mean, look at what happened to muscle shows Shoals.
I mean, look at all the people that went to
Muscle Shoals in order to make it big because they
wanted to do something local. And it's like, where are
you going muscle Shoals? Really? What what do you mean?
Why not La? Why not Atlanta? So no, No, you
and your dad are spot on, man, because your place
is going to be right there when you step into it.
(02:36):
HM right to have that openness. Though my dad always
told me to shut up and put that guitar away. God,
I'm so jealous of you.
Speaker 2 (02:47):
Yeah, I mean it's it's honestly, I will say, it's
an area of growth of mind that I think I've
like since I don't know when. I don't know when
that it turns for kids, right. I don't know if
it's fifteen when my dad just thinks he say anything
he says just starts to bother me, you know, or
if it was thirteen or when it was. I think
from that moment, From that moment on, I fortunately had siblings.
Speaker 3 (03:08):
I have two.
Speaker 2 (03:09):
I have an older brother and older sister, better able
to hold the accountable that went through that, and they're
able to be like listen, man, Like maybe sometimes dad frustrates.
Speaker 3 (03:16):
You, but like he's always going to be there for you,
and like nobody.
Speaker 2 (03:19):
Loves there's not gonna be a person who's planet that
loves you more than him right now.
Speaker 3 (03:22):
And I see that and I appreciate that.
Speaker 2 (03:25):
And my dad also, like, aside from just being my dad,
he's also just like a really stand up guy, and
he works really hard, and he's also a very smart man.
And so i'n't honestly just be a fool to not
like allow him to take this journey with me.
Speaker 1 (03:40):
I love that. I love that because you know, you're right,
it is a journey, but it's also a challenge and
there's a lot of change and that you're facing at
the age of twenty because look at the state of
the world that we're giving to you, and yet look
at what you're doing with it, Aidan. You're saying, I
can make some music, I can find some peace for
those that are traveling that have no idea. I'm going
to do it because I've got a leader that's walking
with me. I call him Dad. They can call him
(04:03):
as Dad, but I'm gonna have Dad with me all
the way.
Speaker 3 (04:07):
Yes, I love that.
Speaker 1 (04:09):
And just just to be in this moment of now
and then when you're working with somebody like like Niall,
My god, that guy has been on the same stage
as you before he became something, so he totally gets
where you are.
Speaker 3 (04:22):
He does.
Speaker 2 (04:23):
He really gets it. That was part of the decision
for me choosing him actually was that he just came
from a show and so he knows what it's like
to transition from it, and he also just gets my
perspective a little bit. But that was that was definitely
a big factor in choosing him.
Speaker 1 (04:38):
Being at Texas A and M. You're an engineer. That
means you break stuff down. As one person once said
to me, as an engineer, you have to take the
word why and give it a solution. How are you
able to do that and do you work it into
your music that way?
Speaker 3 (04:52):
M I love that, you know.
Speaker 2 (04:55):
I while I am absolutely an engineer, I'm also a
baby engineer out of sophomore right and I'm taking part.
I'm only a part time student right now, just with
the show and everything. But like freshman year for me
looks like a lot of theory, a ton of calculus,
a ton of physics, a ton of chemistry. But I
think how I take all that into my music is
(05:17):
like best. You better believe that. Every performance that I've
shown on the show so far, although like they absolutely
were from the soul and I just went up there
and I just sang the song. Every breath, every run,
every high note, every low note, every every every every
aspect of the song was planned out and it was
(05:37):
arranged by myself.
Speaker 3 (05:40):
And that's just that's just how I do it.
Speaker 2 (05:42):
I mean, I wanted to give this song, each song,
the best, the best run that I could.
Speaker 3 (05:47):
So that's what it took for me.
Speaker 2 (05:48):
And I think that's how I approach a competition like
this is how can I how can I show who
I am in this song and how can I impress
people without ruining the song.
Speaker 1 (05:58):
Essentially, So how much does bill Eilis's playing this, because
I mean she really has that way of doing the
same exact thing. How do I fit into this? And
then when I take it to a live stage, they've
got to take it from their world which is overcrowded.
Now join my performance on this stage, and then we
have a moment. And you tend to be that person
aiden that creates moments.
Speaker 2 (06:23):
I love that you mentioned Billy because just singing one
of her songs, and also like she is just a
very large inspiration of mine.
Speaker 3 (06:32):
She is.
Speaker 2 (06:32):
She's really great anywhere through the way she carries herself.
Speaker 3 (06:34):
I have a lot of.
Speaker 2 (06:35):
Respect for her for being unapologetetically herself. And then also
just her and her brother Phineas how they navigate through writing.
Speaker 3 (06:42):
I think I.
Speaker 2 (06:42):
Resonate with that a lot. Just having a sister that
sings too, I think that's really special. I mean, also
just do the music that she creates. I mean, I
just I love her music. She's on my She's on
all my playlists, man. So yeah, she's really great.
Speaker 1 (06:55):
So when you talk about Billie Eilish's brother Dan, I
mean I envision your father doing the same exact things
he ever sat behind a control board to say, hey, look,
let's try this. Let me redesign this, let me tweak
this up, let me get an extra plug here.
Speaker 2 (07:08):
Yes, well, I will say my dad isn't a sound
engineer or anything of that nature. He does know what
he likes and he does know what.
Speaker 3 (07:15):
He wants and so and so.
Speaker 2 (07:18):
Like for my last show, for an example, we they
have like a massive TV screen that they added at
the Palace Theater that I didn't even know about, which
is just a show that I play in causation Aaron
Bryan Sorry, and there was a backdrop and we were like,
didn't know what to put on it, but he was like, look, man,
you take care of the band, I'll take care of this.
And so sure enough, before I play there's like a
(07:39):
minimalistic logo that says Aidan Ross with like a design
on it, and like, I don't I wouldn't have been
able to figure that out without.
Speaker 1 (07:46):
Him speaking of that logo. Let's talk about that logo,
because I am a real pig. I am when it
comes to logos and when it comes to imaging. And
I was very inspired by the way that you kept
everything in lower case when it comes to Aiden and
then Ross stick out like a like giant, like a
giant sitting there saying, don't forget my last name is Ross.
I love how simple it is, but at the same
time it's unforgettable. How did you come up with this logo?
Speaker 2 (08:11):
Uh? The oh this is the one that's on my
screen right now.
Speaker 1 (08:14):
Yeah, that's that's a very attractive logo because it says
everything to me.
Speaker 2 (08:19):
Oh my gosh, I love that. This is so funny. Man,
I've had this logo for years. I don't really know
when I I don't know. Maybe I should get any
graphic design, but I just I don't even remember, you know,
maybe my dad made it for me years ago.
Speaker 3 (08:33):
I've had this.
Speaker 2 (08:34):
I've had this logo like as my emails, as everything
for like probably like eight years now. Man.
Speaker 1 (08:41):
Yeah, yeah, because it pretty much the way that Aiden
is spelled out, and even with the lettering and stuff
like that, it to me subliminally it's saying I'm one
of you. I am not taller than you, i am
not bigger than you. I am going to grow and
I'm gonna take you with me. And you can see
it in my name because it's not using capital letters.
It's using letters that we use as as a family.
(09:01):
You like music, I like performing music. Let's go together.
Speaker 3 (09:05):
I love that.
Speaker 2 (09:06):
I'm definitely gonna learn from the I'm and I remember.
Speaker 1 (09:08):
That please do not move. There's more with Aiden Ross
coming up next. The name of the show NBC's The Voice,
and we are back with Aiden Ross. One of the
things that you have mastered is reimagining music. I mean,
it's like, how do you take a song and make
it your own in the way that it's like I
think he did it first. I really, I think they
(09:29):
borrowed it from him and went out and got fam
with it. I think he was the first one.
Speaker 2 (09:35):
I love that. That's something that I've worked so hard
towards right because i think it's like, first of all,
when I'm singing in Adele song or when I'm singing
Billie Eilish song, I'm never gonna if I try to
sing it like Adele, I'm not that is not gonna
be like yep, I'm not gonna succeed in that. I'm
never gonna sing Adele's song. Adele's way as good as
(09:56):
Adele sings it right. And the same goes for Billie
Eilish and so one reimagining them. Not only does it
create this like this new, this new feel that is
kind of just refreshing, and but it's also unique to
myself and it's honest, and it's like it's representative of
who I am. And so how I kind of start
(10:18):
with that, right, is honestly just singing the song. I
learned the song good enough to I listen to the
former artist sing it enough to get the message of
the song, yep. And also just like learn the song
and learn the melody and learn the notes. But as
soon as I know the song, I stop. I stop
listening to Adele's version or I stop listening to Billy's version,
because I think subconsciously, whenever I listen to Adele, because
(10:42):
she has a very like specific voice she has, she
does these vocal cries and she does all these different
things whenever she sings, and they're great and they're incredible,
but I'm never gonna be able to do them as
good as she does in her way. And so after, like,
once I learned her song, it's better for me to
just take a step back and really reimagine it my own.
Speaker 1 (11:01):
Yeah, but look at your two inspirations that we've talked
about here. You talk about Billie Eilish and her brother too,
everyday average kids from LA that just happened to make
it because they recorded the music in their bedroom. And
then you take something from Adele, who's just an average
everyday person whose friend challenged her to be able to
go go out there and sing. You see where you
fit in in this? You're one of them. And we're
(11:23):
gonna look at you Aiden and say I want to
be like Aiden because he's not afraid to be himself.
Speaker 3 (11:29):
Oh man, I appreciate that. I hope.
Speaker 2 (11:32):
So, I hope. So man, I'm ready to give it.
I'm ready to give it everything. And so we'll see,
we'll see how far I get.
Speaker 1 (11:39):
When do you get to turn it off at night?
Or are you like most creative people you don't get
that opportunity. You just have to live with it.
Speaker 2 (11:48):
At night, just regarding like like sleep and stuff as sleeps.
Speaker 1 (11:51):
If you're lucky enough to get it.
Speaker 2 (11:54):
Yeah, No, the night's definitely end pretty late. I think
at night it's maybe it's just honest as simple as like.
Speaker 3 (12:01):
The vibe or whatever.
Speaker 2 (12:03):
But I do my best writing when it's dark outside
I'm not really I'm not writing a hook of a
hit song at eight am. And also but what I
am doing at like in the morning time is just
like grinding out, going through photos and videos from a
videographer from either my show or just like content that
I've made. It's just an It's a constant wave of
(12:23):
creating new music, writing new music, getting new music produced,
looking back on music that's partially produced, creating new content,
thinking about what new content to create, like when to
get photos, different videos to make. It's a whole So
it's it's incredible how much social media has changed this game.
I mean, it's really great because it allows it allows
(12:46):
anybody to be able to make it right. But it's
a whole new ballgame. And so I'm still learning that
and doing everything i can to learn.
Speaker 1 (12:53):
So when you talk about Aiden the business man, what
happens to Aid and the performer, is he sitting over
in the corner, because I've been known to do that.
I'll sit there and I'll say Arrow, you need to
go over there, because this is not Arrow time right now.
This is about promoting. This is about this is about
getting things right, the editing, the producing and everything like that.
So Arrow can't be a part of the production part
of this at all. Aiden seems to be the same way.
(13:14):
It's like Aiden's got a vision, but the business side
of Asian has a greater vision, and he's got a
good backup team. His name is Dad, exactly.
Speaker 2 (13:24):
I definitely learned that my dad. My dad's a businessman.
He works hard, and he's like incredibly successful for all
the best reasons. And so I'm trying to learn everything
I can from him because I feel like if you
don't approach it with at least some sort of business perspective,
it makes.
Speaker 3 (13:40):
It a lot harder.
Speaker 1 (13:41):
You know, we all go through rituals before we hit
that stage. Is there something that you do? In other words,
I will stare at the floor for a second, I
look up, and then I look at the room and
I go, okay, I'm here, I gotta go. Now, let's
make this happen, and then in the blink of an eye,
it's over. How do you deal with that when you
probably don't even remember how you performed.
Speaker 2 (14:02):
Yeah, I mean, you're definitely true on that last part
about like you hardly remember like how you perform. Yeah,
you know, that's absolutely true. But something that I always
tell myself before I step onto a stage because I
think something that a lot of artists struggle with that
even I myself have struggled with sometimes is like just
(14:22):
having an identity crisis, like is this really what I do?
Like I'm not this isn't me, This isn't me, This
is Olivia Dean, this is Lizzie.
Speaker 3 (14:30):
Mcalvine, this is a del Verno Mars.
Speaker 2 (14:32):
I'm not one of them like this, I don't know,
this couldn't be me. But the thing I tell myself
every time is like before I step onto a stage
is like, this is where I belong, This is where
I'm meant to be, Like this is this is who
I am, And just like telling myself that and reinforcing
that that belief, and it's just so essential before stepping
(14:53):
onto any stage, no matter how big or small it is,
because I mean, you really can't afford to not think that,
you know, yep. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (15:00):
But here's the thing though, and you were talking about it,
where you go back and you watch the videos that
people have taken and what you've taken, and there are
people that are sitting in their living rooms or in
their homes right now with that guitar or with that
piano they've got earphones on because they don't want the
world to listen to them. How do you deal with
that person that says you did okay, you suck, we
need to do something better because you suck, But aiden
(15:20):
keeps showing up on that stage because tonight I'm not
gonna suck as bad mm hm exactly.
Speaker 2 (15:28):
I think one I think one route that I'll take
is being able to just step back from social media.
You know, whenever you're on a platform and I've gotten to yep,
You're gonna have so much love and you're also going
to have a decent amount of hate too, And so
just clinging on to all the positive bits that I've
received is really important. But also just like I don't know,
Like I'm a pretty logical guy. I think through things
(15:52):
very logical. That's just kind of how I am. And
like I got a four chair turn, I made it
past the battles, I made it past the knockouts some
going into the playoffs, like I've got to be okay,
you know, I've got to be like all right, And
so as long as I know that I'm like all
right at this thing, then I can do it with
full confidence.
Speaker 1 (16:10):
You know, you being on that family farm one of
the things, and you can you can call me weird
if you want to. I was the guy that would
grab the garden hose, steal it from my mother, and
I would go into the chicken house and I would
put one endo the of the hose up to my
ear in one of my mouth. And because there was
such a delay that it created an echo. Where do
you go on that farm to be able to find
your music in a place that nobody else is going
(16:32):
to find it?
Speaker 2 (16:34):
You know? Man, that's so that's a great question for me.
One thing that I had to do before we even
like first opened the farm for business was building picnic tables.
I built so many.
Speaker 3 (16:47):
Freaking picnic tables. I'm scratched. And it took. It took
it was. I spent hours and hours billing those picnic tables.
Speaker 2 (16:54):
Man. And so, but I would I would be in
I would be in the workshop and I would be
building my picnic tables, and I would have my I'd
have the speakers plan and I would be listening to
music and I'd be listening to all the different moving
parts and being like, how else how.
Speaker 3 (17:09):
Would I sing this, What would I change about that
guitar line?
Speaker 2 (17:11):
Oh? I love those paths that they added with that
sense really nice and just really I think that's just like,
that's just something that I've always done. It's not really
I think some people are like, Okay, I need to
sit down and I need to start breaking down songs
and I need to like listen to hear what I like.
Speaker 3 (17:24):
That's something that I've just always done.
Speaker 2 (17:26):
Man. I just I'm a lover of music. I'm a
lover of like creatives, and so whenever I'm listening to
a song, I'm listening to all the little parts I
want to. I want to use a good speaker so
I can hear all the little the little flickers in
the back that you may not be able to hear
without that good speaker.
Speaker 3 (17:43):
And yeah, that's just who I am.
Speaker 1 (17:45):
Oh, that's the engineer coming out in you. And you know,
and the strangest thing about it is how many times
have people said, aiden you're not listening to me, And
it's it's like, wait, wait, it's not that I'm not
listening to you. My mind is elsewhere. Give me a
chance to catch up to you, and I'll answer your question.
Speaker 3 (17:59):
Oh love that, man.
Speaker 2 (18:01):
And that's something that that's something that I've always kind
of dealt with. It is just or like struggled with
or whatever. Is that my mind will just drift like
somebody will talk about something, bring one thing up. And
it's not that I'm not It's not that like I
don't care about their what they're saying. It's that I
fixated on whatever they had just said. It's like, man,
you just dropped a bomb on me. Let me, let me,
let me ponder for a minute, man, and let me ponder. Yeah, dude,
(18:25):
that's just I think that's just how it is being
a creative.
Speaker 1 (18:28):
Where can people go to find out more about you, Aiden,
because I I just want to. I just want them
to support you all the way long beyond where we
are with NBC's The Voice.
Speaker 3 (18:38):
Thank you so much, man.
Speaker 2 (18:40):
I am My tag is Aiden Ross Music on all platforms, Facebook, Instagram, TikTok,
and the whole, the whole way.
Speaker 1 (18:49):
Excell Will you got to come back to this show
anytime in the future and if you come to the
Carolina's you got we got to get together dude, because
I mean, you're You're from Texas, I'm from Carolina. Let's
have a barbecue contest.
Speaker 3 (18:59):
Oh my god, I would love that. That would be sick.
Speaker 1 (19:02):
You'd be brilliant today.
Speaker 3 (19:03):
Okay, thank you so much, man,
I've always believed in one mantra, share your story or
someone will write it for you. And as we continue
to grow inside this podcast world, there's a lot of
stories we haven't dug into yet. Ero dot net, A R.
R Oe dot Net. Thank you so much for supporting
the vision as well as the path. How you doing, Naden?
Everything going, Okay.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
I'm trying my best, man, I'm trying.
Speaker 1 (00:23):
And what does that include when you say trying your best?
Because being a third degree black belt, my martial artist
instructor would say, give me your best and then I
would move something. He'd say, that's not your best. You
did it, and it's like, oh god, there's a difference
between trying and actually doing. So when you say you're
trying your best, what are you trying?
Speaker 2 (00:42):
Man? I think for me, the biggest area that like
I had to realize, like the biggest step that I
realized I hadn't been taking before the show was just
time management. Yep. I mean I think I've really had
to do that this past semester with just still being
in school while also trying to write, while also trying
to travel to get my songs reduced, while also just
creating content for the show. I've really had to lay
(01:04):
out a schedule. I'm gonna really feel like the structure
that I've like created for myself now is like what's
really pushing me over the edge for that right now, for.
Speaker 1 (01:11):
The love of god, you're only twenty years old. What
are you talking about schedules for it? Let me in
on that, because there are so many twenty year olds
right now that are going I don't know, maybe I'll
get there, but look at you all focused and everything. Dude.
Speaker 3 (01:22):
Yeah, man, I mean, I just it's I mean being
twenty man. I mean, maybe it's not now or never,
but I want it now. Yep, I want it now.
I'm ready for it.
Speaker 2 (01:31):
And so it really depends on the day. But for
an example, like today, I woke up, made some breakfasts,
hopped on this, hopped on.
Speaker 3 (01:41):
This series of calls.
Speaker 2 (01:43):
I'm gonna go I'm gonna go work out, and then
I'm gonna go look at a production place and called.
Speaker 3 (01:48):
Well that me and my dad have been connected to.
Speaker 2 (01:50):
We're gonna go check that out together, because I've typically
I've been going to Nashville for stuff of that nature.
But I think me and my dad realized that it
might be cool to check out some local spots just
because I mean, it's local, it's special and why not
And yeah, that's what that's what we have today. I'll
have rehearsals coming up. I have another rehearsal tonight for
my band for a show that we have tomorrow, and
(02:12):
then I have stand as Wonderland coming up later this week.
Speaker 1 (02:15):
Wow, you talk about, you know, local and stuff like that.
I mean, look at what happened to muscle shows Shoals.
I mean, look at all the people that went to
Muscle Shoals in order to make it big because they
wanted to do something local. And it's like, where are
you going muscle Shoals? Really? What what do you mean?
Why not La? Why not Atlanta? So no, No, you
and your dad are spot on, man, because your place
is going to be right there when you step into it.
(02:36):
HM right to have that openness. Though my dad always
told me to shut up and put that guitar away. God,
I'm so jealous of you.
Speaker 2 (02:47):
Yeah, I mean it's it's honestly, I will say, it's
an area of growth of mind that I think I've
like since I don't know when. I don't know when
that it turns for kids, right. I don't know if
it's fifteen when my dad just thinks he say anything
he says just starts to bother me, you know, or
if it was thirteen or when it was. I think
from that moment, From that moment on, I fortunately had siblings.
Speaker 3 (03:08):
I have two.
Speaker 2 (03:09):
I have an older brother and older sister, better able
to hold the accountable that went through that, and they're
able to be like listen, man, Like maybe sometimes dad frustrates.
Speaker 3 (03:16):
You, but like he's always going to be there for you,
and like nobody.
Speaker 2 (03:19):
Loves there's not gonna be a person who's planet that
loves you more than him right now.
Speaker 3 (03:22):
And I see that and I appreciate that.
Speaker 2 (03:25):
And my dad also, like, aside from just being my dad,
he's also just like a really stand up guy, and
he works really hard, and he's also a very smart man.
And so i'n't honestly just be a fool to not
like allow him to take this journey with me.
Speaker 1 (03:40):
I love that. I love that because you know, you're right,
it is a journey, but it's also a challenge and
there's a lot of change and that you're facing at
the age of twenty because look at the state of
the world that we're giving to you, and yet look
at what you're doing with it, Aidan. You're saying, I
can make some music, I can find some peace for
those that are traveling that have no idea. I'm going
to do it because I've got a leader that's walking
with me. I call him Dad. They can call him
(04:03):
as Dad, but I'm gonna have Dad with me all
the way.
Speaker 3 (04:07):
Yes, I love that.
Speaker 1 (04:09):
And just just to be in this moment of now
and then when you're working with somebody like like Niall,
My god, that guy has been on the same stage
as you before he became something, so he totally gets
where you are.
Speaker 3 (04:22):
He does.
Speaker 2 (04:23):
He really gets it. That was part of the decision
for me choosing him actually was that he just came
from a show and so he knows what it's like
to transition from it, and he also just gets my
perspective a little bit. But that was that was definitely
a big factor in choosing him.
Speaker 1 (04:38):
Being at Texas A and M. You're an engineer. That
means you break stuff down. As one person once said
to me, as an engineer, you have to take the
word why and give it a solution. How are you
able to do that and do you work it into
your music that way?
Speaker 3 (04:52):
M I love that, you know.
Speaker 2 (04:55):
I while I am absolutely an engineer, I'm also a
baby engineer out of sophomore right and I'm taking part.
I'm only a part time student right now, just with
the show and everything. But like freshman year for me
looks like a lot of theory, a ton of calculus,
a ton of physics, a ton of chemistry. But I
think how I take all that into my music is
(05:17):
like best. You better believe that. Every performance that I've
shown on the show so far, although like they absolutely
were from the soul and I just went up there
and I just sang the song. Every breath, every run,
every high note, every low note, every every every every
aspect of the song was planned out and it was
(05:37):
arranged by myself.
Speaker 3 (05:40):
And that's just that's just how I do it.
Speaker 2 (05:42):
I mean, I wanted to give this song, each song,
the best, the best run that I could.
Speaker 3 (05:47):
So that's what it took for me.
Speaker 2 (05:48):
And I think that's how I approach a competition like
this is how can I how can I show who
I am in this song and how can I impress
people without ruining the song.
Speaker 1 (05:58):
Essentially, So how much does bill Eilis's playing this, because
I mean she really has that way of doing the
same exact thing. How do I fit into this? And
then when I take it to a live stage, they've
got to take it from their world which is overcrowded.
Now join my performance on this stage, and then we
have a moment. And you tend to be that person
aiden that creates moments.
Speaker 2 (06:23):
I love that you mentioned Billy because just singing one
of her songs, and also like she is just a
very large inspiration of mine.
Speaker 3 (06:32):
She is.
Speaker 2 (06:32):
She's really great anywhere through the way she carries herself.
Speaker 3 (06:34):
I have a lot of.
Speaker 2 (06:35):
Respect for her for being unapologetetically herself. And then also
just her and her brother Phineas how they navigate through writing.
Speaker 3 (06:42):
I think I.
Speaker 2 (06:42):
Resonate with that a lot. Just having a sister that
sings too, I think that's really special. I mean, also
just do the music that she creates. I mean, I
just I love her music. She's on my She's on
all my playlists, man. So yeah, she's really great.
Speaker 1 (06:55):
So when you talk about Billie Eilish's brother Dan, I
mean I envision your father doing the same exact things
he ever sat behind a control board to say, hey, look,
let's try this. Let me redesign this, let me tweak
this up, let me get an extra plug here.
Speaker 2 (07:08):
Yes, well, I will say my dad isn't a sound
engineer or anything of that nature. He does know what
he likes and he does know what.
Speaker 3 (07:15):
He wants and so and so.
Speaker 2 (07:18):
Like for my last show, for an example, we they
have like a massive TV screen that they added at
the Palace Theater that I didn't even know about, which
is just a show that I play in causation Aaron
Bryan Sorry, and there was a backdrop and we were like,
didn't know what to put on it, but he was like, look, man,
you take care of the band, I'll take care of this.
And so sure enough, before I play there's like a
(07:39):
minimalistic logo that says Aidan Ross with like a design
on it, and like, I don't I wouldn't have been
able to figure that out without.
Speaker 1 (07:46):
Him speaking of that logo. Let's talk about that logo,
because I am a real pig. I am when it
comes to logos and when it comes to imaging. And
I was very inspired by the way that you kept
everything in lower case when it comes to Aiden and
then Ross stick out like a like giant, like a
giant sitting there saying, don't forget my last name is Ross.
I love how simple it is, but at the same
time it's unforgettable. How did you come up with this logo?
Speaker 2 (08:11):
Uh? The oh this is the one that's on my
screen right now.
Speaker 1 (08:14):
Yeah, that's that's a very attractive logo because it says
everything to me.
Speaker 2 (08:19):
Oh my gosh, I love that. This is so funny. Man,
I've had this logo for years. I don't really know
when I I don't know. Maybe I should get any
graphic design, but I just I don't even remember, you know,
maybe my dad made it for me years ago.
Speaker 3 (08:33):
I've had this.
Speaker 2 (08:34):
I've had this logo like as my emails, as everything
for like probably like eight years now. Man.
Speaker 1 (08:41):
Yeah, yeah, because it pretty much the way that Aiden
is spelled out, and even with the lettering and stuff
like that, it to me subliminally it's saying I'm one
of you. I am not taller than you, i am
not bigger than you. I am going to grow and
I'm gonna take you with me. And you can see
it in my name because it's not using capital letters.
It's using letters that we use as as a family.
(09:01):
You like music, I like performing music. Let's go together.
Speaker 3 (09:05):
I love that.
Speaker 2 (09:06):
I'm definitely gonna learn from the I'm and I remember.
Speaker 1 (09:08):
That please do not move. There's more with Aiden Ross
coming up next. The name of the show NBC's The Voice,
and we are back with Aiden Ross. One of the
things that you have mastered is reimagining music. I mean,
it's like, how do you take a song and make
it your own in the way that it's like I
think he did it first. I really, I think they
(09:29):
borrowed it from him and went out and got fam
with it. I think he was the first one.
Speaker 2 (09:35):
I love that. That's something that I've worked so hard
towards right because i think it's like, first of all,
when I'm singing in Adele song or when I'm singing
Billie Eilish song, I'm never gonna if I try to
sing it like Adele, I'm not that is not gonna
be like yep, I'm not gonna succeed in that. I'm
never gonna sing Adele's song. Adele's way as good as
(09:56):
Adele sings it right. And the same goes for Billie
Eilish and so one reimagining them. Not only does it
create this like this new, this new feel that is
kind of just refreshing, and but it's also unique to
myself and it's honest, and it's like it's representative of
who I am. And so how I kind of start
(10:18):
with that, right, is honestly just singing the song. I
learned the song good enough to I listen to the
former artist sing it enough to get the message of
the song, yep. And also just like learn the song
and learn the melody and learn the notes. But as
soon as I know the song, I stop. I stop
listening to Adele's version or I stop listening to Billy's version,
because I think subconsciously, whenever I listen to Adele, because
(10:42):
she has a very like specific voice she has, she
does these vocal cries and she does all these different
things whenever she sings, and they're great and they're incredible,
but I'm never gonna be able to do them as
good as she does in her way. And so after, like,
once I learned her song, it's better for me to
just take a step back and really reimagine it my own.
Speaker 1 (11:01):
Yeah, but look at your two inspirations that we've talked
about here. You talk about Billie Eilish and her brother too,
everyday average kids from LA that just happened to make
it because they recorded the music in their bedroom. And
then you take something from Adele, who's just an average
everyday person whose friend challenged her to be able to
go go out there and sing. You see where you
fit in in this? You're one of them. And we're
(11:23):
gonna look at you Aiden and say I want to
be like Aiden because he's not afraid to be himself.
Speaker 3 (11:29):
Oh man, I appreciate that. I hope.
Speaker 2 (11:32):
So, I hope. So man, I'm ready to give it.
I'm ready to give it everything. And so we'll see,
we'll see how far I get.
Speaker 1 (11:39):
When do you get to turn it off at night?
Or are you like most creative people you don't get
that opportunity. You just have to live with it.
Speaker 2 (11:48):
At night, just regarding like like sleep and stuff as sleeps.
Speaker 1 (11:51):
If you're lucky enough to get it.
Speaker 2 (11:54):
Yeah, No, the night's definitely end pretty late. I think
at night it's maybe it's just honest as simple as like.
Speaker 3 (12:01):
The vibe or whatever.
Speaker 2 (12:03):
But I do my best writing when it's dark outside
I'm not really I'm not writing a hook of a
hit song at eight am. And also but what I
am doing at like in the morning time is just
like grinding out, going through photos and videos from a
videographer from either my show or just like content that
I've made. It's just an It's a constant wave of
(12:23):
creating new music, writing new music, getting new music produced,
looking back on music that's partially produced, creating new content,
thinking about what new content to create, like when to
get photos, different videos to make. It's a whole So
it's it's incredible how much social media has changed this game.
I mean, it's really great because it allows it allows
(12:46):
anybody to be able to make it right. But it's
a whole new ballgame. And so I'm still learning that
and doing everything i can to learn.
Speaker 1 (12:53):
So when you talk about Aiden the business man, what
happens to Aid and the performer, is he sitting over
in the corner, because I've been known to do that.
I'll sit there and I'll say Arrow, you need to
go over there, because this is not Arrow time right now.
This is about promoting. This is about this is about
getting things right, the editing, the producing and everything like that.
So Arrow can't be a part of the production part
of this at all. Aiden seems to be the same way.
(13:14):
It's like Aiden's got a vision, but the business side
of Asian has a greater vision, and he's got a
good backup team. His name is Dad, exactly.
Speaker 2 (13:24):
I definitely learned that my dad. My dad's a businessman.
He works hard, and he's like incredibly successful for all
the best reasons. And so I'm trying to learn everything
I can from him because I feel like if you
don't approach it with at least some sort of business perspective,
it makes.
Speaker 3 (13:40):
It a lot harder.
Speaker 1 (13:41):
You know, we all go through rituals before we hit
that stage. Is there something that you do? In other words,
I will stare at the floor for a second, I
look up, and then I look at the room and
I go, okay, I'm here, I gotta go. Now, let's
make this happen, and then in the blink of an eye,
it's over. How do you deal with that when you
probably don't even remember how you performed.
Speaker 2 (14:02):
Yeah, I mean, you're definitely true on that last part
about like you hardly remember like how you perform. Yeah,
you know, that's absolutely true. But something that I always
tell myself before I step onto a stage because I
think something that a lot of artists struggle with that
even I myself have struggled with sometimes is like just
(14:22):
having an identity crisis, like is this really what I do?
Like I'm not this isn't me, This isn't me, This
is Olivia Dean, this is Lizzie.
Speaker 3 (14:30):
Mcalvine, this is a del Verno Mars.
Speaker 2 (14:32):
I'm not one of them like this, I don't know,
this couldn't be me. But the thing I tell myself
every time is like before I step onto a stage
is like, this is where I belong, This is where
I'm meant to be, Like this is this is who
I am, And just like telling myself that and reinforcing
that that belief, and it's just so essential before stepping
(14:53):
onto any stage, no matter how big or small it is,
because I mean, you really can't afford to not think that,
you know, yep. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (15:00):
But here's the thing though, and you were talking about it,
where you go back and you watch the videos that
people have taken and what you've taken, and there are
people that are sitting in their living rooms or in
their homes right now with that guitar or with that
piano they've got earphones on because they don't want the
world to listen to them. How do you deal with
that person that says you did okay, you suck, we
need to do something better because you suck, But aiden
(15:20):
keeps showing up on that stage because tonight I'm not
gonna suck as bad mm hm exactly.
Speaker 2 (15:28):
I think one I think one route that I'll take
is being able to just step back from social media.
You know, whenever you're on a platform and I've gotten to yep,
You're gonna have so much love and you're also going
to have a decent amount of hate too, And so
just clinging on to all the positive bits that I've
received is really important. But also just like I don't know,
Like I'm a pretty logical guy. I think through things
(15:52):
very logical. That's just kind of how I am. And
like I got a four chair turn, I made it
past the battles, I made it past the knockouts some
going into the playoffs, like I've got to be okay,
you know, I've got to be like all right, And
so as long as I know that I'm like all
right at this thing, then I can do it with
full confidence.
Speaker 1 (16:10):
You know, you being on that family farm one of
the things, and you can you can call me weird
if you want to. I was the guy that would
grab the garden hose, steal it from my mother, and
I would go into the chicken house and I would
put one endo the of the hose up to my
ear in one of my mouth. And because there was
such a delay that it created an echo. Where do
you go on that farm to be able to find
your music in a place that nobody else is going
(16:32):
to find it?
Speaker 2 (16:34):
You know? Man, that's so that's a great question for me.
One thing that I had to do before we even
like first opened the farm for business was building picnic tables.
I built so many.
Speaker 3 (16:47):
Freaking picnic tables. I'm scratched. And it took. It took
it was. I spent hours and hours billing those picnic tables.
Speaker 2 (16:54):
Man. And so, but I would I would be in
I would be in the workshop and I would be
building my picnic tables, and I would have my I'd
have the speakers plan and I would be listening to
music and I'd be listening to all the different moving
parts and being like, how else how.
Speaker 3 (17:09):
Would I sing this, What would I change about that
guitar line?
Speaker 2 (17:11):
Oh? I love those paths that they added with that
sense really nice and just really I think that's just like,
that's just something that I've always done. It's not really
I think some people are like, Okay, I need to
sit down and I need to start breaking down songs
and I need to like listen to hear what I like.
Speaker 3 (17:24):
That's something that I've just always done.
Speaker 2 (17:26):
Man. I just I'm a lover of music. I'm a
lover of like creatives, and so whenever I'm listening to
a song, I'm listening to all the little parts I
want to. I want to use a good speaker so
I can hear all the little the little flickers in
the back that you may not be able to hear
without that good speaker.
Speaker 3 (17:43):
And yeah, that's just who I am.
Speaker 1 (17:45):
Oh, that's the engineer coming out in you. And you know,
and the strangest thing about it is how many times
have people said, aiden you're not listening to me, And
it's it's like, wait, wait, it's not that I'm not
listening to you. My mind is elsewhere. Give me a
chance to catch up to you, and I'll answer your question.
Speaker 3 (17:59):
Oh love that, man.
Speaker 2 (18:01):
And that's something that that's something that I've always kind
of dealt with. It is just or like struggled with
or whatever. Is that my mind will just drift like
somebody will talk about something, bring one thing up. And
it's not that I'm not It's not that like I
don't care about their what they're saying. It's that I
fixated on whatever they had just said. It's like, man,
you just dropped a bomb on me. Let me, let me,
let me ponder for a minute, man, and let me ponder. Yeah, dude,
(18:25):
that's just I think that's just how it is being
a creative.
Speaker 1 (18:28):
Where can people go to find out more about you, Aiden,
because I I just want to. I just want them
to support you all the way long beyond where we
are with NBC's The Voice.
Speaker 3 (18:38):
Thank you so much, man.
Speaker 2 (18:40):
I am My tag is Aiden Ross Music on all platforms, Facebook, Instagram, TikTok,
and the whole, the whole way.
Speaker 1 (18:49):
Excell Will you got to come back to this show
anytime in the future and if you come to the
Carolina's you got we got to get together dude, because
I mean, you're You're from Texas, I'm from Carolina. Let's
have a barbecue contest.
Speaker 3 (18:59):
Oh my god, I would love that. That would be sick.
Speaker 1 (19:02):
You'd be brilliant today.
Speaker 3 (19:03):
Okay, thank you so much, man,
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