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Jason Aldean is a country music artist who signed with Broken Bow Records in January 2004.Aldean sings in a honky-tonk tenor and released his debut album in 2005. The album and two singles from it have been successful. It was announced recently that his album has become gold, after selling over 500,000 copies.Recently Aldean's first the single WHY reached #1 on the U.S. 100 charts. Aldean won his first career award, Academy of Country Music (ACM) New Male Top Vocalist in may 2006.

Eventually, Aldean taught himself songs from listening to the radio.His early favorites included George Strait's "The Cowboy Rides Away," Hank Williams Jr.'s "The Blues Man" and Alabama's "My Home's in Alabama." He was inspired by a country music awards show on TV at the age of 14 and decided to try performing. He thus sung two songs at the VFW Hall in Macon following with performances at area talent contests and local fairs. At 15, he joined the house band at the Macon nightspot Nashville South.

Aldean's father booked his son's band into college towns in Florida, Alabama and Georgia, then farther up the eastern seaboard. One of the band members was Justin Weaver, with whom Jason began writing songs. Aldean recorded an eight-song album in Nashville in 1996 to sell at his shows.
In 1998, he performed his original songs at a showcase staged by the Atlanta nightclub The Buckboard. None of the record company talent scouts who were there approached him, but Michael Knox, then of the Warner-Chappell publishing company, did. Aldean didn't even know what a song publisher was. Nevertheless, signed to write songs for the company, he moved to Music City on Nov. 1, 1998, at age 21. A month later, he was offered a recording contract. He immediately signed with another label when it didn't pan out.

However, after postponing his recording sessions repeatedly, the second label dropped him in 2000. The next three years brought a marriage and a daughter but no career progress. But after a showcase at the Wildhorse Saloon in Nashville in early 2004, manager Lawrence Mathis approached him, impressed with his talent. Aldean said he had six months to make something happen or else he'd be leaving Nashville. Within five weeks, Mathis secured him a record deal with the independent label Broken Bow Records. His first album for the label was released in 2005.