Aldo Stellita

Aldo Salvatore Stellita (August 2, 1947 – July 9, 1998), was an Italian bassist and songwriter, a founding member of the Genoan band Matia Bazar.

Aldo Stellita
Born(1947-08-02)August 2, 1947
Campobello di Mazara, Italy
DiedJuly 9, 1998(1998-07-09) (aged 50)
Udine, Italy
GenresSynth pop, Prog rock, Pop rock
Occupation(s)Bassist, songwriter
InstrumentsBass
Years active1971-1998

Early career and Jet

A native of Sicily, Stellita moved to Bolzano at an early age. In 1971, shortly before getting his Chemistry degree, he founded in Genoa, with fellow musicians Piero Cassano and Carlo Marrale, the progressive rock band Jet. The band released an album, Fede, speranza, carità and unsuccessfully participated to the Sanremo Music Festival 1973 with the song Anika na-o.

Matia Bazar

In 1975, vocalist Antonella Ruggiero and drummer Giancarlo Golzi joined Jet, resulting in a new band: Matia Bazar. During his two-decade journey with the band, Stellita was consistently credited for his pivotal role, writing the lyrics of virtually all the group's songs and being the overall creative force behind their musical experimentations, from progressive rock to electropop to pop rock, leading the group through fifteen studio albums, seven participations to the Sanremo Music Festival, one Eurovision Song Contest, world-wide tours, several lineup changes and national and international acclaim.[1]

Personal life and death

After a long relationship with bandmate Antonella Ruggiero (from 1981–89), he married Simonetta Carri, with whom he had a son, Jodi (born 1994) .[2]

Diagnosed with lung cancer in summer 1997, Stellita died from the disease on July 9, 1998, aged 50.[3] He is buried in San Giorgio di Nogaro.

His place as a bassist in Matia Bazar was vacant for almost twenty years after his death, until Paola Zadra took it over in 2017.

Discography

With Jet
  • Fede, speranza, carità (1972)

With Matia Bazar
  • Matia Bazar 1 (1976)
  • Gran Bazar (1977)
  • Semplicità (1978)
  • Tournée (1979)
  • Il tempo del sole (1980)
  • Berlino, Parigi, Londra (1982)
  • Tango (1983)
  • Aristocratica (1984)
  • Melanchòlia (1985)
  • Melò (1987)
  • Red Corner (1989)
  • Anime pigre (1991)
  • Dove le canzoni si avverano (1993)
  • Radiomatia (1995)
  • Benvenuti a Sausalito (1997)

Notes
  1. C'è tutto un mondo intorno. Omaggio ad ALDO STELLITA (Home video) (in Italian). AristocraticaOfficial. July 9, 2018. Retrieved May 14, 2019.
  2. "I Matia Bazar onorano Aldo Stellita nella sua San Giorgio" (in Italian). Il Messaggero Veneto. May 18, 2018. Retrieved May 14, 2019.
  3. "Matia Bazar, morto Stellita: Claudio gli dedica lo show" (in Italian). Corriere della Sera. July 10, 1998. p. 35. Archived from the original on September 26, 2015. Retrieved May 14, 2019.
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