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Aaron “Heatbox” Heaton has been making mouth sounds for the last 40 years. He has been getting paid to make mouth sounds for the last 20.

Heatbox is a professional beatboxer, loop artist, singer, and voice actor. He makes a living making sounds with his mouth. He has performed in almost every state in the United States as well as in Canada, Mexico, The Netherlands, Scotland, China, Dubai, Qatar, and New Zealand. He has sold thousands of records.

He is also a songwriter, music arranger, audio engineer, video editor, video game designer, computer programmer, game show host, and the guy his parents call to fix their computer.

Baby LIFE

Aaron Heaton was born with exceptionally large glands and muscles in his neck. This may be because his umbilical cord was wrapped around his neck while in the womb. It became a problem during childbirth and his mom was rushed to the ER for an emergency C-Section.

His neck glands and muscles were so large that if his mom didn’t warn the doctor during a checkup they would become concerned he was sick. The roof of his mouth is also abnormally high. He was born to make mouth sounds.

Toddler LIFE

When he was 4 his uncle Steve gave Aaron an old Commodore 64 computer and a stack of floppy disks full of games, music composing software, and animation software. Thus began a lifelong fascination with computers, technology, and video games.

Little Aaron spent a lot of time on the living room floor trying to make music and animations on the old computer.

Boy Life

When Aaron was 9 years old he was selected to sing in a choir of the best singers in his school district. They sang in churches and schools and once sang at the newly built Mall Of America. He learned a lot about the art of singing.

When he was 11 he joined the school band. He wanted to stand out so he picked the tuba because it was loud and no one else had chosen to play it. He would play the tuba for the next 7 years — strengthening his lips and lungs. He didn’t know it, but he was beatbox training.

TEEN YEARS

When Aaron was 13 his bedroom consisted of a bed, a dresser, and a giant table completely covered with Lego. He collected exclusively space Lego sets and would set them up in elaborate scenes like the ones he saw at Lego Land. He had the tendency to become obsessed with a project.

When he was 17 he and his friends heard the Rahzel album “Make The Music 2000” where Rahzel beatboxes and sings at the same time. This had everybody in his friend group beatboxing.

The course of his life was forever changed when he beatboxed at his high school pep rally and people danced and chanted his name. Around this time is when his friend Alex gave him the name Heatbox.

Young Man

After high school Aaron didn’t really know what to do with his life. He was not a very good waiter at The Olive Garden, a fairly unreliable waiter at The Sunshine Factory, and a pleasant but forgetful waiter at The Times Cafe. He was worked at a Denny’s for three days.

He tried going to a local college for music production, but got bored and dropped out. He then tried going to a tech collage for computer programming, but again got bored and left.

During this time he was also performing in a local Minneapolis band called Root City Band. He started out only doing one or two songs a night, spending the rest of the gigs mingling with the crowd. Over the months and years his spot in the band slowly grew until he was the beatboxing hype man of the band. He acquired many years of stage experience.

THE BEGINNING OF HEATBOX

BOSS released the first Loop Station RC-20 in 2001. But, it wouldn’t be until 2003 that Heatbox stumbled across one at a local music store. After purchasing it, he and his friends would spend hours making beats with it. They were blown away by it’s potential. He started to write songs with it.

Around 2005 Heatbox began work on his first album called “Entertainment”. The same guy who printed his album told Heatbox he planned to throw his first music festival and invited him to play it. It would be called Bella Luna.

Heatbox played Bella Luna to a packed crowd who went absolutely bananas for his act. Loop pedals were not well known at the time and people couldn’t believe that a person with no instruments could stand on stage and produce such full sounding songs with just a microphone and some pedals.

He also wore a PowerGlove for unknown reasons.

From that moment on Heatbox has been lucky enough to make a living doing what he loves - trying to get people to laugh and dance. <3