Aaron J. Sams was born in Nova Scotia and became a lifelong U2 fan in the early 1980s. His first U2 concert was in 1997, and he has seen every tour since. In 1995, he started a fan website—U2Songs.com, the oldest U2 site on the internet still in publication. U2Songs has been featured on the BBC, Irish Independent, and U2's own site. Sams has contributed to many U2 fan projects, including several books about U2 written by others. He has also contributed to official U2 releases. He currently lives in Halifax, Nova Scotia, where he works as an engineer.