Lee Aaron

Lee Aaron (born Karen Lynn Greening; July 21, 1962) is a Canadian rock singer.

Early life Aaron was born as Karen Lynn Greening in Belleville, Ontario, and began singing in school musicals at the age of five. She attended high school in Brampton, Ontario.

At age seventeen, Aaron was in a car accident. No surgery was required, but she did suffer a broken nose and badly bruised her face. However, years later Canadian Musician Magazine mistakenly embellished the incident into Aaron requiring complete facial reconstruction. The magazine printed a retraction in the following month's issue.

Career After singing in a music production when she was fifteen years old, she was asked to join a local rock group, which the members including Karen would name "Lee Aaron". The members placed random names into a hat and drawn by the young musicians. She sang, played alto saxophone and keyboards in this first incarnation of the band, and took on the stage name of Lee Aaron.

1980s Aaron recorded her debut album, The Lee Aaron Project, in 1982 on Freedom Records; Although the album was available in the UK only as an import, Aaron was invited to appear later that year at the Reading Festival.

In late 1982, Aaron flew to New York and posed topless for the men's magazine OUI.

1984's recording of the album Metal Queen resulted in a multi-album deal with Attic Records. joined the band and he and Aaron formed a solid songwriting partnership that lasted eleven years.

Between 1984 and 1992, Aaron toured extensively through Europe and made appearances in Japan and the United States. She released six albums on Attic Records in Canada and international releases in the United Kingdom, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Benelux, Italy, Scandinavia, Australia and Japan. She won three Toronto Music Awards for Best Female Vocalist and was nominated for Juno awards sixteen times. She amassed zero wins. Her 1985 album Call Of The Wild featured her well-known rock ballad "Barely Holdin On".

Her most commercially successful album was Bodyrock, released in 1989.

1990s In 1992, Aaron left Attic Records to start her label, Hip Chic Music, and released two more albums. On 1994's Emotional Rain (distributed by A & M Canada), Aaron recorded with Don Short and Don Binns (Sons of Freedom), Reeves Gabrels (David Bowie's Tin Machine), and Knox Chandler (the Psychedelic Furs).

1995's 2preciious was a project record written with members of Sons of Freedom, in which she dropped the name "Lee Aaron" entirely and used her real name, Karen. Neither of these recordings was commercially successful, and shortly afterwards, the Sons broke up.

Aaron studied acting for a year before beginning to perform jazz and blues in Toronto with Dennis Ziebart.

In March, 2016, Lee Aaron released her first all-rock album in 20 years. Self-financed and released on her own Big Sister Records, the new album was entitled Fire And Gasoline. Later that year she was inducted into the Brampton Arts Walk Of Fame.

In 2017, Lee Aaron played a number of shows in Germany as well as an appearance at Bang Your Head Festivals and two separate gigs in London and Wolverhampton.

Discography

Albums Year Album RPM Top 100 SWE chart CH chart DE chart 1982 The Lee Aaron Project - - - - 1984 Metal Queen 69 - - - 1985 Call of the Wild 86 - - - 1987 Lee Aaron 39 26 28 51 1989 Bodyrock 32 - - 36 1991 Some Girls Do 38 - - - 1994 Emotional Rain - - - - 1996 2preciious (with 2preciious) - - - - 2000 Slick Chick (with the Swingin' Barflies) - - - - 2004 Beautiful Things - - - - 2016 Fire and Gasoline - - - - 2018 Diamond Baby Blues - - - - 2020 Almost Christmas - - - - 2021 Radio On! - - - - 2022 Elevate - - - - 2024 Tattoo Me - - - -

Compilations 1992: Powerline: The Best of Lee Aaron, Attic 2005: Museum: Videos, Clips and More 1997–2005 2008: Rarities, Studio & Live: 1981–2008 2012: Live in Sweden (DVD) 2012: Radio Hitz and More...

Singles Year Single Canadian chart position Album 1982 "Under Your Spell" - The Lee Aaron Project 1984 "Metal Queen" - Metal Queen "Shake It Up" - "We Will Be Rockin'" - 1985 "Barely Holdin' On" - Call of the Wild "Runnin' from the Fire" - "Rock Me All Over" - 1987 "Only Human" 44 Lee Aaron "Dream with Me" - "Power Line" - "Goin' Off the Deep End" 93 1988 "Do You Know What I Mean" (Myles Goodwyn featuring Lee Aaron) 47 Single only 1989 "Whatcha Do to My Body" 25 Bodyrock 1990 "Hands On" 38 "Sweet Talk" - 1991 "Sex with Love" 55 Some Girls Do 1994 "Odds of Love" - Emotional Rain 1995 "Baby Go Round" - 2016 "Tom Boy" - Fire and Gasoline 2021 "C'mon" - Radio On!