Steven DeMarchi is a Canadian

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, backing vocalist and

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. He is best known as the co-founder and lead guitarist of the bands

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(1979–1985) and Alias (1988–1991). DeMarchi also played guitar for

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(1996–2003) and was the main guitarist for

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(2005–2008). As a Billboard hit songwriter, DeMarchi is known for co-writing the hit songs "

More Than Words Can Say "More Than Words Can Say" (also known as "(I Need You Now) More Than Words Can Say" for promotional purposes) is a song by Canadian rock band Alias. It was released in September 1990 as the second single from their debut eponymous album. The p ...

", a 1990 Number 1 hit on the BillBoard Hot AC chart and Number 2 on the ''Billboard'' Hot 100 and “Haunted Heart”, a 1990 Number 18 hit on the US

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chart. BMI presented DeMarchi with the "Million-air award" for the song "

". According to BMI’s web site, only 1,500 songs including " When I'm with You" by

have achieved Million-air status (one million air plays) among the 4.5 million songs by 300,000 BMI represented artists. One million performances is equal to approximately 50,000 broadcast hours, or more than 5.7 years of continuous airplay.BMI Website
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in LA on a nationwide TV show ''

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''. In 1990, he performed live with Alias on several national TV shows, including two performances on ''

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'' - once with

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and once with

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. DeMarchi was guitarist for the band

between 1996 and 2003. Between 2005 and 2007 Dolores O’Riordan, the voice of

and DeMarchi recorded O'Riordans first solo record titled "Are You Listening". DeMarchi appeared with O'Riordan on many televised and radio live performances in 2007 in support of that record, and travelled to over 22 countries in Europe, North America and South America on the 2007 O'Riordan world tour. In May 2007, DeMarchi along with other band members, were featured with O’Riordan in live performances on the ''

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Show'', ''

'' with

, True Music on

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cable network TV, and on Heaven and Earth

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Manchester. In January 2009, Alias (primarily DeMarchi and Curci) announced the release of their second album, appropriately titled ''

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''. Live performances are expected during 2009 in support of this new album release.Tour dates and band member lineup are yet to be announced. More information at th
official ALIAS myspace profile

Songwriting career

DeMarchi has collaborated with other successful songwriters like Steve Diamond, Jim Vallance,

Freddy Curci Federico "Freddy" Curci is a Canadian singer and songwriter. He was lead vocalist for the rock band Sheriff, and is the founder, frontman, and lead singer for the band Alias. Curci provided lead vocals on the Sheriff song " When I'm with You", ...

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, Rick Neigher, Albert Hammond, and Jeff Paris just to name a few. On the 1982

album ''Sheriff'', DeMarchi co-wrote with

the songs: *Track 5-Kept Me Coming *Track 7-Crazy Without You DeMarchi wrote most of the songs on the 1990 Alias album ''Alias'' with

, (the lead vocalist of Sheriff and Alias): *Track 1-Say What I Wanna Say *Track 2-Haunted Heart *Track 4-The Power *Track 5-Heroes *Track 6-What To Do *Track 7-After All The Love Is Gone *Track 8-

*Track 10-True Emotion *Track 11-Standing In The Darkness On Curci's 1994 solo album "Dreamer's Road", DeMarchi collaborated in writing the songs: *Track 2-Dreamer's Road *Track 4-Just To Be Close *Track 8-Real Love *Track 9-Into the Fire *Track 10-Diamonds *Track 11-Life Goes On On the 2006 Zion album, DeMarchi collaborated with Curci for the songs: *Track 2-How Much Longer Is Forever *Track 4-Dangerous *Track 7-No Surprise *Track 10-Who Do You think You Are *Track 11-Crash The Mirror

Discography

Sheriff

* 1982 ''Sheriff'' (self-titled album), Capitol Records

Alias

* 1990 '' Alias'' (self-titled album), EMI * 1990 ''Haunted Heart'' EP, EMI * 1991 ''Waiting For Love'' EP, EMI * 1992 ''Perfect World'' EP, EMI * 2009 ''

Freddy Curci

* 1994 solo album, ''Dreamer's Road'', EMI Music Canada * 2000 compilation album, ''Then and Now'', Frontiers (Italy)

Zion

* 2006 ''Zion''(?), Frontiers Records

Dolores O'Riordan

* 2007 '' Are You Listening?'' * 2009 '' No Baggage in the song "Stupid"''

Singles

Filmography

1991 -

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Soundtrack: Performer / Producer “Perfect World”

References

"''Billboard''"
Billboard ''Hot 100 airplay and sales charts''. Retrieved June 11, 2006. * Feldman, Christopher (2000). ''The Billboard Book of Number Two Hits''. .
LiveDairy interview Dolores O'Riordan

Dreamer's Road
Heavy Harmonies Community * Capitol Records Inc. (1988) Sheriff album cover insert. UPC 0 77777-91216-2 5 * Capitol Records Inc. (1990) Alias album cover insert. UPC 0 20831-4097-2 89 * EMI Music Canada (1994) Dreamer's Road album cover insert. UPC 7243 8 29339 22 * Frontier Records (2006) Zion album cover insert. UPC 8 024391 031322
latest news update

March 2009 Interview with Steve DeMarchi, Behind the Alias

External links

Steve DeMarchi Myspace Profile

The Official ALIAS Myspace Profile
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