Aaron Lebos

Miami Guitarist Aaron Lebos: Don't Use The F Word

Alicia Zuckerman — Mon, 04 Feb 2013 11:00:00 +0000

When Miami native Aaron Lebos was a kid, his parents told him to choose between violin and piano. "I chose piano," he says, "obviously." But his big brother played electric guitar, and he wanted to too. He thought it was "cooler." Eventually, he got his hands on a guitar of his own and made his way through jazz studies programs at Miami Dade College, University of Miami and FIU.

Local Music: Aaron Lebos On Childhood

Jackie Skevin — Sat, 19 Jan 2013 15:00:00 +0000

As a child, Aaron Lebos was given a choice of two musical instruments: piano or violin. He chose the piano and spent the next six years dedicated to the instrument, winning five state-wide competitions.

But at the age of 11, he picked up the guitar.

More than a decade later he's still strumming it.

WLRN Fiction: Piñata

Jeremy Glazer — Sat, 19 Jan 2013 13:50:00 +0000

The following is original fiction by Jeremy Glazer. Jeremy is a regular WLRN contributor.

Every year, on his birthday, for the last twenty-three years, Robert Simmons called the number.

856-3543.

But no one had ever answered before.

“Hello, Robert’s Western Wear,” the voice says, in mock cowboy accent dissolving into a cascade of giggles.