Aaron Tippin -- Country Music Singer -- American Patriot Tippin began performing in local honky tonks in the 1970's. He competed on the TNN show "You Can Be A Star" in 1985 landed a songwriter's contract and moved to Music City in 86. Always a focused and purposeful man, Aaron created a work routine that was spartan in it's intensity. He worked the midnight shift at a factory in Kentucky, commuted to Music Row to write songs, did his late afternoon strength training, went to bed, got up and did the whole routine over again, day after day. The dedication paid off. He won barbell competitions, and Charley Pride, David Ball, Mark Collie and others recorded his songs. Tippin performed his first Nashville nightclub show in 1990, and it earned him a contract with RCA. His ambitious first single "You've Got to Stand for Something" cracked the Top 10 in 1991, and 1992's "There Ain't Nothin' Wrong With the Radio" stayed at No. 1 for three weeks. Tippin scored string of Top 10 hits for RCA. (In all, he charted 19 songs for the label.) Five of his RCA albums went gold and one platinum. He moved to Lyric Street in 1998 and charted a No. 1 with the raucous "Kiss This" (co-written with wife Thea) in 2000. In the wake of 9/11, his patriotic anthem "Where the Stars and Stripes and the Eagle Fly" touched a nation. Performing for Troops in Iraq and Afghanistan has become a tradition for Aaron. The past several years during the Thanksgiving holiday, he and band have traveled for the purpose <b>...</b>