It’s been nearly 18 years since Angie Aparo launched “Spaceship,” his best-known song, into the thick of the adult-alternative airwaves. In the decade that followed, the Atlanta native curated an eclectic repertoire that melds folk, jazz, country and pop into soaring soprano sweetness. Aparo took a break from music that lasted nearly eight years, only to return after a stroke in 2016 temporarily robbed him of the ability to understand speech. Today, he’s on the mend and will release his ninth album — Life Is a Flower, Life Is a Gun — Feb. 16. He says the album, which features a manically upbeat techno ditty called “Sylvia Plath,” was born from the most painful chapter of his life: “my stroke and then subsequently, my divorce.” SKIP ANDERSON
Angie Aparo
