WHAT I'M REALLY LIKE: Truth is, most days you'll find me being a dad to four boys (Silas 11, August 9, Lorentz 6, and Magnus) and a husband to an amazing woman named Heidi. We live in a red brick house in Nashville, TN. In the summers, we grow a huge garden. Every Friday, we buy two 5-dollar Hot-N-Ready cheese pizzas from Little Caesar’s. I was an English Major in college, but I’m still two Spanish courses short of my degree. (Read that sentence again if you missed the irony the first time.) I dropped out to try to “make it” in music. Hard to believe now that it was in 2004. Along the way, I gigged all over the world, playing wherever I could. At one point, I learned to tune pianos to help supplement my income. The Midwesterner in me doesn’t love to admit this, but I’ve had a longstanding battle with severe anxiety and depression. In 2009, mine got really bad. I’ll forever be grateful to my first therapist and psychiatrist for breaking the mental illness myths I’d believed for so long. But I also realized I had to completely rethink my music career. It wasn’t until Heidi and I moved to Nashville, Tennessee, that I found my stride as a singer-songwriter and producer, signing with a great publisher here. In 2018, I started writing a weekly newsletter called "3 on Thursday." I share music, stories behind the songs, home-recording and songwriting tips, plus the occasional watercolor painting. If interested, sign up at https://aaronespe.com. Love, Aaron