Garinger High grad took his marching band talents and got out of NC. Now, he’s on TV

It’s been nearly eight years since Aaron Best graduated from Garinger High School and moved west from Charlotte to enroll at Prairie View A&M University, where he is currently a senior and a leader of the school’s marching band.
While multiple breaks from his studies have made it so that Best will be 26 years old this spring — when he expects to finally earn his degree in music education — those breaks also put him in a position to be something he wouldn’t otherwise have been if he’d made it through college on schedule:
A TV star.