Nova was born in El Dorado, Arkansas. Her father was an accordion player and choir director and her mother was an organist for their Pentecostal church.\n', 'Nova\'s uncle Donald Ryan, a classical and jazz pianist and arranger, taught her piano lessons as a child. Nova\'s family moved to many different states when she was a child, including significant time in Sapulpa, Oklahoma and Ypsilanti, Michigan.\n', '\n', '

Nova graduated from the University of North Texas with a BA in vocal performance. After college, she lived in Moscow, Russia, for a year where she studied Russian and wrote songs, producing a self-released, limited edition EP, Session I. She moved to New York City, where she continued to study opera with Josephine Mongiardo. In 2009 Nova moved to Detroit, Michigan.\n', '

She married in 1997 and divorced in 2016 legally changing her name from Worden (her ex-husband\'s surname) to Nova. She has one child with her ex-husband, Constantine Jamesson Worden born in 2010.\n', '

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