Aaron Hendra Project

The Australian-born, Los Angeles-based singer, songwriter, and guitarist, Aaron Hendra has been striving to make a name for himself in the music industry for quite some time but it is only recently that he is getting serious recognition for his work. Along with his newly launched independent label Give Records, Hendra is about to take the spotlight. The Aaron Hendra Project's first shot across the bow is his new single "Alive" - an uplifting love song that serves as a fitting introduction to the band's muscular, melody-minded and thoroughly radio-ready rock sound and Hendra's impassioned vocal delivery. He shows another side of his songwriting with the acoustic guitar-driven ballad, "One Man's War", which Hendra originally wrote to be the end title song to a film starring Gerard Butler about the life story of former biker/drug dealer-turned-preacher and Sudanese orphanage founder Sam Childers, AKA the "Machine Gun Preacher". He asked Hendra to compose something to close out the biopic. So Hendra traveled to southern Sudan and stayed for several weeks at Childers' orphanage where he recorded 300 children, the ones actually rescued by Childers, sing the song's end chorus. Though "One Man's War" wasn't ultimately used in Machine Gun Preacher, it can be heard, along with several other tracks from Octobersong, in a documentary about the film.

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