Alias was a Canadian, short-lived, album-oriented, hard rock band, formed 
in 1988 by, vocalist Freddy Curci and guitarist Steve DeMarchi, both former 
members of the Canadian band, Sheriff, (of "When I'm With You" fame). 
They were joined by Heart founding-members, guitarist Roger Fisher, 
bassist Steve Fossen, and drummer Mike DeRosier.

The band released its self-titled, debut album in 1990, which was certified 
gold by the RIAA 1 in the U.S., and platinum in Canada, scoring hits with 
the power ballads, "More Than Words Can Say" (#2), "Waiting For Love" (#13) 
and "Haunted Heart" (#18). They also recorded the Tonio K song, "Perfect 
World," for the Christina Applegate film, Don't Tell Mom The Babysitter's 
Dead, and performed twice on The Tonight Show , once with Johnny Carson 
and once with Jay Leno.

 Alias toured extensively through 1990 and part of 1991, including a stint 
as the opening act for REO Speedwagon, but they fell apart during the 
tour, with the former Heart musicians leaving en masse. Rumors of a reunion 
circulated for some time but never came to fruition. In an interview with 
 Strutter Magazine, Curci indicated that Alias was never formally disbanded: 
" Alias never split. Music changed. We couldn't get our music out there. 
No one wanted to hear it anymore. Grunge was in and, you know what, that's OK, 
'cause music needs to do that. It needs to change all the time. That's 
how it stays fresh. Alias is still Steve and I. Alias will always 
be Steve and I. Steve and I will do a record tomorrow if the fans need one!"

In January 2009, Alias announced the release of a long-awaited second album. 
This album, appropriately titled "Never Say Never," was recorded in 1992, and was 
supposed to follow their highly-praised debut album but it never got released. 
A few of the songs from this album were re-recorded and appeared on Freddy Curci’s 
solo album Dreamer’s Road, (1994), however many tracks remained unreleased. 

 Alias was featured in the Top 20 AOR 2 Records of All Time, ranking at #17. 
This impressive list includes Def Leppard, Foreigner, Toto, Boston and Journey. 

In 1991, for the song, "More Than Words Can Say," BMI 3 presented 
Freddy Curci (co-writer) with the Million-air Award, for one million air plays. 
According to BMI’s website, only 1,500 songs have achieved Million-air 
status among the 4.5 million songs by the 300,000 BMI-represented artists. 
One million performances is the equivalent of approximately 50,000 broadcast 
hours, or more than 5.7 years of continuous airplay.

BAND MEMBERS:
Original Band Members 1990-1991:
* Freddy Curci (lead vocals)
* Steve DeMarchi (guitar)
* Roger Fisher (guitar)
* Steve Fossen (bass)
* Mike DeRosier (drums)

Band Members involved in the 2009 Album Never Say Never :
* Freddy Curci (lead vocals)
* Steve DeMarchi (guitar)
* Marco Mendoza (bass)
* Larry Aberman (drums)
* Robert O'Hearn (keyboards)
* Denny DeMarchi (keyboards)


DISCOGRAPHY:
Albums:
Year / Album / U.S. Albums
1990 / Alias / 114
2009 / Never Say Never / -

Singles:
Year / Song / U.S. Hot 100 / U.S. MSR 4 / U.S. AC 5 / U.K. Singles / Album
1990 / "More Than Words Can Say" / 2 / 13 / 5 / - / Alias 1990 / "Haunted Heart" / - / 18  / - / - / Alias 
1991 / "Waiting for Love" / 13 / - / 7 / 87 / Alias 
1991 / "Perfect World" / 90 / - / - / - / Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead Soundtrack

Compilations:
Year / Album
1991 / Nintendo: White Knuckle Scorin' 
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 1 The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) is a group which 
represents the industry's distributors in the United States. Its members 
consist of record labels and distributors. It participates in the collection, 
administration and distribution of music licenses and royalties. The association 
is also responsible for certifying the number of copies of records sold in 
the U.S. and rates them as follows: * Silver: 100,000, * Gold: 500,000, 
* Platinum: 1,000,000, * Multi-Platinum: 2,000,000+, and * Diamond: 10,000,000.

 2 AOR, or Album-oriented rock, is an American, FM radio format, focusing on 
album tracks by rock artists. The roots of the AOR radio format began with 
programming concepts rooted in 1960s idealism. Under the AOR format, FM DJs 
were allowed to developed the repertoire and set the tone that would 
determine the playlists for their programs. Up until then most radio formats 
were based on a select, tight rotation of hit singles. The best example is 
Top 40, though there are many other formats, such as Country, Smooth Jazz, 
Urban and Oldies, amongst others. All of them use the same basic principles, 
with the most popular songs repeating every 2 to 6 hours, depending on their 
rank in the rotation. Generally there is a strict order or list to be 
followed and the DJ does not make decisions about what selections are 
played. AOR, while still based on the rotation concept, focused on the album 
as a whole (rather than singles). After the inception of the AOR format many 
DJs had the freedom to chose what track(s) to play off any given album, as 
well as latitude to decide what order to play the records in. Later in the 
1970s, AOR formats became tighter and song selection shifted from the DJ to 
the Program or Music Director. Still, when an AOR station added an album to 
rotation they would often focus on numerous tracks at once, rather than 
playing the singles as they were individually released.

 3 Broadcast Music, Inc. (BMI) is one of three United States performing rights 
organizations, along with American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers 
(ASCAP) and Society of European Stage Authors & Composers (SESAC). It collects 
license fees on behalf of songwriters, composers, and music publishers and 
distributes them as royalties to those members whose works have been performed.

 4 MSR=Mainstream Rock

 5 AC=Adult Contemporary