# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/shara-nova
# Generated: 2026-08-13T09:00:59.446Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/shara-nova"
name: "Shara Nova"
slug: "shara-nova"
description: "Shara Nova 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."
tagline: "American musician"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Shara_Worden.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1974-04-22"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           43.34
  momentum:             0
  historical:           6.627684
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  90
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "X"
    url:       "https://x.com/MyBrightestDmnd"
    handle:    "MyBrightestDmnd"
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm3509808/"
    handle:    "nm3509808"
  - platform:  "SPOTIFY"
    url:       "https://open.spotify.com/artist/48scskxHFIigHFEvAiNVb1"
    handle:    "48scskxHFIigHFEvAiNVb1"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.mybrightestdiamond.com/"
sources:
  - url: "https://www.discogs.com/artist/390947"
    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B4%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%A7_%D9%86%D9%88%DA%A4%D8%A7"
    title: "شارا نوڤا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shara_Nova"
    title: "Shara Nova"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shara_Nova"
    title: "Shara Nova"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shara_Nova"
    title: "Shara Nova"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shara_Worden"
    title: "Shara Worden"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/f80defee-0ef7-4238-8558-3cd6e3e76ed8"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2277126"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1292684"
    title: "Shara Nova"
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump