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Aaron Jeoffrey Benward (born September 13, 1973) is an American singer-songwriter.

Life and career [ edit ]

Benward is the son of Candice and Jeoffrey Benward and has two siblings, Sareece and Colin. In high school , he left his mark as an All-State football, basketball and soccer player and was named the U.S. Army Scholar/Athlete of the Year. After graduating, he decided to pursue a college degree before getting involved in music on a professional level. He attended college on a soccer scholarship studying music business at Belmont University in Nashville, Tennessee .

In 1991, he surprised his father Jeoffrey when he told his dad that he wanted to follow his steps in the music business. They went on to form a unique son/father duo called Aaron Jeoffrey that achieved great success in the CCM scene. They garnered 10 #1 Billboard CCM singles and sold over 1,000,000 copies on all three of their EMI released albums combined.

Benward met his wife, Kenda, in San Jose, California , and married in 1994. In the late 1990s, Benward decided to pursue a solo career. While recording his first solo album, Benward, his wife and children, were involved in a near fatal car accident. After recovering from his injuries, Benward was able to release his debut album titled Imagine , that had Billboard #1 single called "Captured" in 2000. ^[1]

Benward founded the country music duo Blue County with his friend Scott Reeves . ^[2] Blue County recorded one album for Curb Records , which included the top 10 single " Good Little Girls " and the Top 20 hit "That's Cool", which Aaron co-wrote. Blue County was also nominated three times for CMA/ACM Duo of the Year. They participated as a featured artist in Conde Nast's/Chevrolet's Fashion Rocks campaign.

In 2023, Benward began producing a new Amazon Freevee docu-series , God. Family. Football. ^[3]

Other work [ edit ]

See also [ edit ]

• Aaron Jeoffrey
• Luke Benward

References [ edit ]