Jeff Bova

Jeff Bova
Origin	Washington, D.C., U.S.
Genres	Pop Rock Hard rock
Occupation(s)	Keyboardist Composer Arranger Record producer
Instruments	Piano, Synthesizer, Keyboards, Trumpet
Years active	1970s-present
Associated acts	Change Distance David Lee Roth

Jeff Bova (born Jeffrey Bova in 1953) is an American keyboardist, composer, arranger and record producer. He has been active in music industry since the mid-1970s, contributing to dozens of recordings by significant mainstream artists like Celine Dion, Michael Jackson, Blondie, Eric Clapton, Joe Cocker, Cyndi Lauper, Bill Laswell and Herbie Hancock, Bernard Edwards and Tony Thompson, Meat Loaf, Missing Persons, Iron Maiden and Billy Joel among others.

Born in Washington D.C., he grew up in Old Greenwich, Connecticut. Being the son of a professional trumpet player, he took the instrument up for himself during elementary school and continued with it at the Berklee College of Music and the Manhattan School of Music. Although he also had arranging and composition lessons by trumpet legend Maury Deutsch, he would choose to specialize in keyboards instead. After leaving college he participated in a Connecticut-based jazz fusion band called "Flying Island" and later on he moved back to New York to find a place into the R&B group Change (from 1982 to 1984).

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