Aldo Nova

After four decades, dozens of classic songs, and hundreds of shows, multi-platinum GRAMMY® Award-winning singer, songwriter, producer, guitarist, and multi-instrumentalist ALDO NOVA can finally be seen alive and kicking after a long self-imposed hiatus.

Aldo Nova took the world by storm when his first multi-platinum, top ten self-titled debut album, Aldo Nova, gave the world the definitive Rock Anthem “Fantasy.” On its heels came the platinum-selling Subject…Aldo Nova yielded another massive anthem,” Monkey on Your Back.” He made his third and last album, titled “Twitch,” for Portrait Records, a division of CBS Records, now called Sony Music when the executives at the record company wanted to take creative control and forced Aldo to do songs that he didn’t write. This led Aldo to go back to Montreal to wait till CBS let him out of his contract. He started to write jingles for companies such as Coca-Cola, Chrysler, Air Canada, and more, earning him the TBA award for writing one of the top ten jingles in the world that year. 5 years later, Sony Music finally released Aldo from his contractual obligations towards them, and at that point, he was finally able to move on. He made his next album, “Blood on the Bricks,” with Jon Bon Jovi., which was written and produced by both of them.

He emerged as a trusted collaborator for some of the biggest stars in the world. He co-wrote the song “Mr. Big Time” with Jon Bon Jovi for the soundtrack of the movie “Armageddon” and worked closely with Jon on his soundtrack album for the film Young Guns 2, doing all the pre-production and demos himself in Bon Jovi’s home studio. He also wrote the signature riff from Jon Bon Jovi’s “Blaze of Glory,” which was his first number 1 song as a solo artist. For Celine Dion, he penned “A New Day Has Come,” which was a number-one hit in 26 countries for six months, along with “Your Light,” “Can’t Fight the Feeling,” and “You and I,” and 15 other songs for her, in English and French, her native language. He garnered a GRAMMY® Award in the category of “Album of the Year” for writing and producing three songs from her diamond-selling album, Falling into You. He has worked with Elton John both on Jon Bon Jovi’s Young Guns 2 soundtrack and produced the song “Levon” for Elton’s multi-platinum Two Rooms, the songs of Elton John and Bernie Taupin. His discography also includes writing hits for everyone from Faith Hill, Carole King, and Clay Aiken to Garou and Blue Öyster Cult. In 1997, Nova released his all-instrumental, critically acclaimed album, “Nova’s Dream,” which he will be re-releasing in 2023.

He has toured the world with bands like Cheap Trick, Hall and Oates, Sammy Hagar, and Blue Oyster Cult, and as a headlining act. He was also the musical director for Cindy Lauper during her tour of Japan and Australia and with both of the biggest stars in France, Johnny Halliday and Patrick Bruel. He speaks and writes in three different languages, English, French and Italian, and has written and produced hit songs in all three.

On February 6th of 2008, Aldo made the conscious decision never to write, collaborate, produce or arrange anyone else’s music but his own and embarked on his 14-year journey to create his Rock Opera, titled “The Life and Times of Eddie Gage,” which he finally finished on March 5th, 2022. The Rock Opera is now 2 hours and 5 minutes long and consists of 25 songs.

The release date still hasn’t been established, as Aldo wants to make sure that after 14 years of blood, sweat, and tears, his work doesn’t just fall between the cracks.

He writes the music and the lyrics to all his songs, produces, arranges, engineers, and mixes all his own projects, which are all released on his own record label, Viral Records.

On April 1st, 2022, he released his 10-song EP “The Life and Times of Eddie Gage,” a Rock Opera by Aldo Nova that showcases all-new material. He filmed, produced, and edited three videos for 3 of the songs from the EP, “Free Your Mind, “Burn Like the Sun,” and “King of Deceit,” which showcases Aldo in full costume and makeup to give a powerful performance which is in a more theatrical style.

On April 19th, 2022, he released Aldo Nova 2.0 Reloaded, which consists of all his biggest songs completely redone and turbocharged. Aldo didn’t stop there and released his 3-song EP of never released songs called “Short Stories” on May 15th, 2022, and then on June 19th, 2022, he released his 3-song all instrumental. Sonic Hallucinations, which was described by critics as three symphonies for aliens. All four albums can be found on every major streaming platform and in CD format everywhere.

On February 1st, 2023, he will release the 1st single to his “The Life and Times of Eddie Gage,” a Rock Opera titled “The Bitch in Black,” with its video directed and edited by Sylvia Bechard.

Aldo Nova is a force to be reckoned with in the music world and is in a class all his own, and he’s back with a vengeance in 2022. He will start touring throughout 2023.