Aria has starred as the music expert in five seasons (62 Episodes) of Beverly Hills Pawn,[2] a Reelz Channel television show.

Aria currently owns The Golden Voice a company that develops celebrity recording artists.

[3] According to her official biography, Aria was born and raised in Newark, California, and later moved to Los Angeles to further her career in music.

[4] Her early influences toward music came from her mother Merrilee Johnson and her father, Mike Johnson, a former bass guitarist for the band Bogus Thunder and current bass guitarist for Bad Boy Bruce & the Blues Mob (2007 to current); (Bad Boy Bruce band members include: Bruce Collett, Allan Andersen, Mike Johnson and Matthew Albarico).

In addition, as an early teen, Aria was in a girl group called Reality, and as a late teen she fronted a band Lucky Six that toured California and Las Vegas also performing in San Francisco, San Jose and Los Gatos, and when asked to tour Europe, Hong Kong and China, Aria instead decided to focus on solo efforts and moved to Los Angeles.