At age eight, Laprete performed the song "
Hey Soul Sister" by
Train at the 2010 Ukulele Festival. On July 19, 2010, a video of this performance was uploaded by "elrollo79" onto YouTube. The video quickly went viral and has received over twenty million views. The video got the attention of a number of popular artists, among them
Jack Johnson and
Mick Fleetwood as well as Train's
Pat Monahan who is reported to have called it his favorite cover version of the song. In 2014, Laprete started releasing music under the artist name Aidan James. He went on a solo tour independently to the east and west coast promoting the music. In
Washington, D.C., he performed on the steps of the
Capitol Hill and did a private performance at the Google Headquarters. In 2015, Laprete was featured in
HBO's documentary series,
Saving My Tomorrow. He was handpicked to write a song for the show, which released on April 22, 2015. He joined the lineup for Train's 2016 Sail Across the Sun cruise, along with
Phillip Phillips,
Michael Franti,
Andy Grammer, and
Shaggy. Laprete's music videos were featured at
Good Morning America's Summer Concert Series in Central Park, and an interview with
ABC News was released on July 22, 2016. He currently releases and produces music under the name Laprete. As an actor, Laprete has appeared in a variety of TV shows and films including
The Pitt,
The Paper,
Chad, ''
Everything's Gonna Be Okay, Alexa and Katie, Swiped and Under the Blood Red Sun''. In 2022, Laprete played the role of Henry Tanaka in the second season of the
Amazon Prime Video series,
The Wilds. Kristen Baldwin of
Entertainment Weekly praised his performance, calling Laprete a "standout" amongst the ensemble cast. In 2025, Laprete was cast as Yoshi in the
Bobby Farrelly comedy film ''
Driver's Ed. The film premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival. Michael Rechtshaffen of The Hollywood Reporter praised his performance, saying Laprete "handily steals every scene with his pitch-perfect deadpan line-readings", making “a lasting, tragicomic impression”. Rachel Labonte of Screen Rant'' said “Yoshi is easily the standout; Laprete’s oblivious line deliveries earned some of the biggest laughs”. Laprete appeared as blogger 'So Wesley' Holzwanger in the
Peacock mockumentary series
The Paper, a
spinoff of the mockumentary series
The Office. Entertainment Weekly called his performance the “perfect Gen Z stare”. He also appeared as Max Wilcox in the
HBO Max medical drama
The Pitt. ==Filmography==