Shara Nova
American musician
Shara Nova (previously Worden) is the lead singer and songwriter for My Brightest Diamond. As a composer she is most recognized for her choral compositions and the baroque chamber opera "You Us We All". New music composers Sarah Kirkland Snider, David Lang, Steve Mackey and Bryce Dessner have composed pieces for Nova's voice. She has recorded as a guest vocalist with David Byrne, Laurie Anderson, The Decemberists, Sufjan Stevens, Jedi Mind Tricks, The Blind Boys of Alabama and Stateless as well as extensive collaborations with visual artists Matthew Ritchie and Matthew Barney. She was formerly the frontwoman of AwRY. On March 3, 2016, Shara legally changed her last name from Worden to Nova after divorcing her husband, to whom she had been married most of her adult life.
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Works
- A Paper, a Pen, a Note to a Friend
- A Whistle, a Tune, a Macaroon
- Apples
- Armed and Harmless
- Bass Player
- Be Brave
- Before the Words
- Black & Costaud
- Blind to the Illness
- Carols After a Plague
- Carols After a Plague: I. Urgency
- Carols After a Plague: II. Tone-Policing
- Carols After a Plague: III. Resolve
- Ding Dang
- Disappear
- Dragonfly
- Escape Routes
- Everything Is in Line
- Freak Out
- From the Invisible to the Visible
- From the Top of the World
- Golden Star
- Gone Away
- Goodbye Forever
- High Low Middle
- I Have Never Loved Someone
- Ice & The Storm
- If I Were Queen
- In the Beginning
- Inside a Boy
- Let Freedom Ring
- Like a Sieve
- Magic Rabbit
- Pressure
- Reaching Through to the Other Side
- Riding Horses
- Shape
- She Does Not Brave the War
- Show You
- So Easy
- Something of an End
- The Diamond
- The Good & The Bad Guy
- The House of Belonging
- The Robin’s Jar
- There’s a Rat
- This Is My Hand
- Time Drinks Three Shots
- To Pluto's Moon
- We Added It Up
- We Were Sparkling
- Workhorse