Stevie Aiello
Aiello performing in Rome in June 2014
Background information
Born	Stephen Aiello (1983-04-30)April 30, 1983 (age 42) Cranston,Rhode Island, United States
Occupations	Songwriter musician record producer
Instruments	Guitar bass guitar keyboards vocals
Years active	1998–present
Labels	Razor & Tie Island
Formerly of	Monty Are I
Website	steviemusic.com

Stephen Aiello (born April 30, 1983) is an American songwriter, musician, and record producer. He is best known for touring and recording with American rock bandThirty Seconds to Mars. He was one of the founding members ofMonty Are I, a band he formed in 1998 with some friends. Aiello has also worked with artists such asMumford & Sons,Cheyenne Jackson,Lana Del Rey,Junkie XL,Young Guns,Cobra Starship,Every Avenue,Starset, andThe Knocks, among others.

Aiello was nominated for twoGMA Dove Awards for his work withRapture Ruckus on the albumInvader (2015). His list of work includes projects with recording acts likeSleeping with Sirens,Of Mice & Men,We Came as Romans,Anti-Flag,Blessthefall,Pop Evil, andBefore Their Eyes.

Stevie Aiello was born April 30, 1983, inCranston,Rhode Island. His family has Italian origins; his great-grandparents moved fromSerrastretta to United States in the early 20th-century. Aiello attended theCranston High School West and then enrolled at theUniversity of Rhode Island inKingston. While he was a student there, he started writing music and playing in a number of rock and metal bands. His influences include artists as varied asUnderoath,Metallica,Josh Groban,Hans Zimmer, andMichael Jackson.^[1]

Aiello foundedMonty Are I in 1998 with guitarist Ryan Muir, keyboardist Andrew Borstein, bassist Mike Matarese, and drummer Justin Muir. Aiello was the lead singer of the band and played rhythm guitar. After winningErnie Ball's Battle of the Bands in 2003, Monty Are I signed toStolen Transmission, an imprint ofIsland Records.^[2]

Monty Are I went on to playWarped Tour and shared the stage with bands likeAnberlin,My Chemical Romance,Taking Back Sunday,Yellowcard,Hawthorne Heights andThe Red Jumpsuit Apparatus.^[3] Aiello recorded the albumsWall of People (2006) andBreak Through the Silence (2009) as frontman and composer of Monty Are I. He later joined music publishing companyRazor & Tie as songwriter and record producer. During this period, he worked withBen Lovett fromMumford & Sons,Cheyenne Jackson,Lana Del Rey,Junkie XL,Alex Suarez fromCobra Starship,Every Avenue, andThe Knocks.^[4]

Aiello collaborated withBefore Their Eyes on the albumsUntouchable (2010) andRedemption (2012) alongside producerJoey Sturgis.^[5] In early 2013, He moved to Los Angeles where he started working withThirty Seconds to Mars after former touring memberTim Kelleher left the band to work on his own music.^[6] Aiello is playing bass guitar, keyboards and occasionally rhythm guitar. He later began to take part at recording sessions with the band. In 2014, Aiello joined producerRob Graves to work withStarset on the albumTransmissions (2014),^[7] and again in 2019 for Starset's third studio album,Divisions.

He worked withCrown the Empire on the albumsThe Resistance: Rise of the Runaways (2014) andRetrograde (2016). His work withRapture Ruckus on their fifth albumInvader (2015) earned him two nominations at theGMA Dove Awards in the categories ofRock/Contemporary Album of the Year andRap/Hip Hop Song of the Year.^[8][9] Aiello rejoined Joey Sturgis to work withBlessthefall on their fifth albumTo Those Left Behind (2015). He later worked on the recordsEchoes (2016) byYoung Guns andGossip (2017) bySleeping with Sirens.^[10]

In 2018 he started a side project called CNTRLLR and on 19 October of the same year he released a new version of "Stuck" byThe Aces onSpotify andYouTube. On April 26, 2019 he released a new song called "Endgame".

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