About Us
Big Noise's History and Achievements
Al Gomes and the Big Noise Team have been assisting with the success of independent and established recording artists for over 35 years.
Founded in 1990, the award-winning international music firm specializes in Artist Development, Strategic Career Direction, Complete Project Management, Music Industry Outreach, and Promotion and Publicity. Big Noise brings to the table years of experience in all aspects of the Music Business.
The company has assisted with the release of 900+ recordings of diverse musical genres by independent and superstar recording artists. They have managed many of the projects from concept to completion. Big Noise also assists with the branding of an artist, image, their business strategy and decisions, and the overall direction of their career.
Big Noise’s creative work and strategic direction has landed over 30 independent artists contracts with record companies, management firms, and publishing companies including Interscope Records, RCA Records, EMI Records, and Sony Music. Big Noise’s artists have also received high profile media exposure through radio, television, and press.
Big Noise has worked with many great independent musicians along with superstars including Christina Aguilera, The Beach Boys, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Chicago, Smokey Robinson, Viola Davis, Dionne Warwick, Katharine McPhee, Jim Brickman, Bela Fleck, Little Anthony and the Imperials, Gregory Porter, Jay Geils, Paul Doucette (Matchbox Twenty), Nils Lofgren, Freddy Cole, Andrew McCarthy, Tiffani Thiessen, and William Shatner.
– Red Hot Chili Peppers –
As a long-time voting member of The Recording Academy (The Grammy Awards), Big Noise has submitted dozens of artists for Nomination Consideration, resulting in six Grammy Award Wins and ten Grammy Award Nominations for their artists.
Big Noise was part of the team that launched the career of multi-platinum superstar Christina Aguilera. The firm served as Directors of Online Entertainment and Marketing for Christina and her company, Three Wishes Productions, Inc. They worked as her publicists and webmasters (‘Best Sites of the 21st Century’ - Entertainment Weekly), as well as being her biographers and archivists. In addition, Big Noise produced two singles for Aguilera (‘Holiday With Christina’ and ‘What A Valentine Wants’) and executive produced a #1 dance remix of her single ‘What A Girl Wants’ for RCA / BMG Records.
Their work for Christina also led to her first Grammy Award Nominations and Wins, along with the massive success of her self-titled debut LP - one of the best-selling albums of all-time.
Coordinated and Booked by Big Noise
Big Noise also conceived and produced American Idol’s Katharine McPhee’s iTunes Christmas single ‘A Gift to You / O Come All Ye Faithful’ for RCA Records. Katharine performed the song for the President of the United States. Big Noise also served as regional judges for American Idol.
The company served as Directors of Projects & Special Events for the legendary R&B vocal group Little Anthony & The Imperials. The scope of work included Big Noise securing a permanent spot for the group on the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame’s Annual Ballot leading to them being officially inducted in April 2009.
Big Noise’s work has earned the music firm Gold and Multi-Platinum Records from the Recording Industry Association of America.
Big Noise has also produced the original motion picture soundtrack CDs for the directorial film debuts of actors Andrew McCarthy (‘News for the Church’) and Tiffani Thiessen (‘Just Pray,’ which featured Paul Doucette from Matchbox Twenty and Grammy Award winner Lori McKenna). They have also produced music documentaries including ‘Billy Gilman: The Making of Everything and More.’
Inspired by Sir Bob Geldof’s Band Aid charity single and Live Aid concert, Big Noise conceived the Bandwagon Project and executive produced and co-wrote the benefit recording ‘Three Sides of Hunger’ featuring a 150-person celebrity chorus consisting of musicians, journalists, TV broadcasters, politicians, and activists. Bandwagon raised thousands of dollars for American agencies that aid the hungry and homeless.
For their efforts, Big Noise went on to win the coveted Jefferson Award from the Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis Foundation for Outstanding Public Service, joining fellow recipients Oprah Winfrey, President Jimmy Carter, Paul Newman, and Harry Belafonte.
– Jefferson Award Medal –
In 2013, music icons The Beach Boys hired Big Noise to run the successful strategic outreach and publicity campaign that helped the band win their very first Grammy Award ever for ‘Best Historical Album’ for their box set ‘The Smile Sessions.’
In the Rock and Roll Hall of Famers’ 50-year career, The Beach Boys had never won a Grammy Award from the voting members of The Recording Academy. That all changed on February 10, 2013 at the 55th Annual celebration when music history was finally made.
Beach Boys founder Brian Wilson and box set producers Alan Boyd and Dennis Wolfe accepted their Grammy Awards with words of thanks to The Beach Boys, extended family, and Al Gomes and Big Noise. The news sent ripples around the world. The New York Times declared, ‘The Drought is Over!’
Big Noise conceived, produced and MC’d a commemoration ceremony on-stage with The Beach Boys in 2017 which honored the 40th Anniversary of the band performing for the largest concert audience ever assembled in the history of the State of Rhode Island - over 40,000 fans on September 2, 1977 at the Narragansett Park Race Track in Pawtucket, RI. Big Noise was also successful in getting the street where the concert stage stood forever renamed as ‘Beach Boys Way.’
In 2023, Big Noise ran the For Your Consideration strategic and outreach campaign that helped acclaimed actress Viola Davis win her Grammy Award for Best Audio Book, Narration & Storytelling Recording for the narration of her autobiography ‘Finding Me.’ This Grammy Award win gave Viola the prestigious status of EGOT, having won an Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, and Tony Award, making her one of only a few creative artists in history to achieve this honor.
This was Big Noise’s sixth Grammy Award win for one of their artists that includes The Beach Boys, Gregory Porter, Ricky Kej and Wouter Kellerman, and Bill Harley.