Steve DeMarchi
Steven DeMarchi is a Canadian guitarist, backing vocalist and songwriter. He is best known as the co-founder and lead guitarist of the bands Sheriff (1979–1985) and Alias (1988–1991). DeMarchi also played guitar for The Cranberries (1996–2003) and was the main guitarist for Dolores O'Riordan (2005–2008).
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| Background information | |
| Born | Toronto, Ontario, Canada |
| Genres | Rock Classic rock |
| Occupation(s) | Guitarist, Songwriter |
| Instruments | Guitar, Backing Vocals |
| Years active | 1979-present |
| Labels | EMI, Sanctuary Records |
| Associated acts | Sheriff, ALIAS, Zion, The Cranberries, Dolores O’Riordan |
| Website | Steve DeMarchi Myspace profile |
As a Billboard hit songwriter, DeMarchi is known for co-writing the hit songs "More Than Words Can Say", 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 Mainstream Rock chart.
BMI presented DeMarchi with the "Million-air award" for the song "More Than Words Can Say". According to BMI’s web site, only 1,500 songs including "When I'm With You" by Sheriff 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.[1]
In 1982, DeMarchi performed live with Sheriff in LA on a nationwide TV show An Evening at the Improv. In 1990, he performed live with Alias on several national TV shows, including two performances on The Tonight Show - once with Johnny Carson and once with Jay Leno.
DeMarchi was guitarist for the band The Cranberries between 1996 and 2003. Between 2005 and 2007 Dolores O’Riordan, the voice of The Cranberries 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 Carson Daly Show, The Tonight Show with Jay Leno,[2][3] True Music on HDnet cable network TV,[4] and on Heaven and Earth BBC Manchester.[5]
In January 2009, Alias (primarily DeMarchi and Curci) announced the release of their second album, appropriately titled Never Say Never. Live performances are expected during 2009 in support of this new album release.[6]
Songwriting career
DeMarchi has collaborated with other successful songwriters like Steve Diamond, Jim Vallance, Freddy Curci, Arnold Lanni, Rick Neigher, Albert Hammond, and Jeff Paris just to name a few.
On the 1982 Sheriff album Sheriff, DeMarchi co-wrote with Arnold Lanni 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 Freddy Curci, (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-More Than Words Can Say
- 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 Never Say Never
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
| Year | Song | US Hot 100 | US MSR | US A.C. | UK Singles | Album |
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| 1990 | "More Than Words Can Say" | 2 | - | 5 | - | Alias |
| 1990 | "Haunted Heart" | - | 18 | - | - | |
| 1991 | "Waiting for Love" | 13 | - | 17 | 87 | |
| 1991 | "Perfect World" | 90 | - | - | - | Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead Soundtrack |
Filmography
1991 - Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead
Soundtrack: Performer / Producer “Perfect World”
References
- BMI Website
- Dolores O'Riordan interviewed "UGO.com" Archived 2009-01-12 at the Wayback Machine, cranberries.com
- Dolores O'Riordan interview Archived 2011-06-15 at the Wayback Machine by Daniel Robert Epstein, ugo.com
- True Music HDnet performance, youtube.com
- BBC live performance, youtube.com
- Tour dates and band member lineup are yet to be announced. More information at the official ALIAS myspace profile.
- "Billboard". Billboard Hot 100 airplay and sales charts. Retrieved June 11, 2006.
- Feldman, Christopher (2000). The Billboard Book of Number Two Hits. ISBN 0-8230-7695-4.
- 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
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