Hi Aaron, my name is Jörn and I am from Germany. I am listening a lot to your very inspiring songs and wanted to thank you. I really like the cover of your single “The Kindness of Strangers” – it gives a lot of interpretation but warms my heart. Where and how did you come up with this idea and song? Best regards,
Jörn
Hi Jörn –
Thanks for the kind words. And about the cover, I agree. One of my favorite illustrators is a guy named John Niño . I met him a while back online, and we’ve since become close friends. He had the idea for this. And he actually first used the illustration for a song of mine called “I Believe.” It wasn’t the cover art; the illustration was for a visual/lyric project. Anyway, the original looked like this.
![](https://i0.wp.com/www.aaronespe.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/TKOS_original-illustration-for-i-believe-1-scaled.jpg?resize=900%2C1165&ssl=1)
But after I wrote “The Kindness of Strangers,” I asked John to revamp the illustration for that song’s cover art because it’s such a great visual of the song’s theme. We discussed color or no color, and making appear less 1950’s, if you will. The end result was this.
![](https://i0.wp.com/www.aaronespe.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/TheKindnessofStrangers_1600x1600.jpg?resize=900%2C900&ssl=1)
As for coming up with the song, I talk about it in this video below.
Thanks for the question!
Love,
Aaron
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