#Ronnie James Dio (R.I.P. 2010)
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#Dio#Ronnie James Dio#1975.#Rainbow#Ronnie James Dio (R.I.P. 2010)#Rainbow era#Ritchie Blackmore's Rainbow#Concert#live#stage#performance#D.I.O.#Genre: Hard Rock/Heavy Metal#Themes: Fantasy Rock (early); Relationships Love#USA
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Friday, October 25: Dio, "Another Lie"
R.I.P. Ronald James "Dio" Padavona (1942-2010), Jimmy Bain (1947-2016)
Sacred Heart was almost immediately derided by everyone (including Vivian Campbell) as a transparent attempt to broaden Dioโs commercial prospects, and while it charted and sold well enough not to raise immediate concerns, in hindsight it was the beginning of the end for Dio on many levels.ย Of course, the notion of Ronnie James Dio making hair metal was laughable on its face, and โAnother Lieโ was an especially hilarious โevil womanโ tale that, even with a more rockinโ riff and Vinny Appice going for more of a groove, sounded less swaggering and more like a cranky elf shaking his cane at a bored stripper.ย There was something almost charming about Dio, both the man and band, trying to strut around the Sunset Strip like they were Ratt or something, and Campbell did try to spice things up a bit with a nice solo over Ronnieโs typical boxy production.ย It was actually the combination of the production, Appice and Campbell that helped โAnother Lieโ do a nice enough job keeping the Dio train running, because all of that made it feel like something that could be performed on stage while Denzil the dragon hovered behind the drums.
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On May 16. 2010 We lost Ronnie James Dio to cancer,robbing the metal world of one of the greatest ever vocalists. From his days of singing in the early 60's to Elf, Rainbow, Black Sabbath and his own band, his stunning vocals have shaped and influenced metal as we know it today. R.I.P. RONNIE JAMES DIO ๐ค๐ค
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โWe pray to someone,
But when it's said and done,
It's really all the same, with just a different name.
So many voices, all giving choices.
If we listen they will say, oh we can find the way.
But we'll sail along, sing our song, carry on.
'Cause we rock.โ
(We Rock โ Dio)
A little tribute to My best Metal Singer artist.
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Art made with Colored pencils, Nankin Pen, Pencil Pen & Eraser Songs that i was listened to make this drawing: - Long Live Rock N' Roll by Rainbow (Long Live Rock N Roll, 1978) - Gates Of Babylon - by Rainbow (Long Live Rock N Roll, 1978) - Rainbow In The Dark by Dio (Holy Diver, 1983) - Holy Diver by Dio (Holy Diver, 1983) - Shame On The Night by Dio (Holy Diver, 1983) - Evil Eyes by Dio (The Last In Line, 1984)
DO NOT RE-POST MY ART WITHOUT MY PERMITION!!!
R.I.P. Ronnie James Dio (1942 โ 2010)
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11 years without him๐ข Ronnie James Dio ๐ต๐ค๐๐บ๐ธ๐ค๐ค
#ronnie james dio#Dio#16 may#R.I.P.#11 years#my hero#vocals#2010#80s metal#70s metal#heavy metal#hard rock#rock n roll#rock#metal#king of rock n roll#black sabbath#elf band#rainbow band
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Today we remember the passing of Ronnie James Dio who Died: May 16, 2010 in Houston, Texas
Ronald James Padavona, known professionally as Ronnie James Dio or simply Dio, was an American heavy metal singer-songwriter and composer, and was also known for popularizing the sign of the horns in heavy metal. He fronted or founded numerous groups throughout his career, including Elf, Rainbow, Black Sabbath, Dio, and Heaven & Hell.
Dio is regarded as one of the greatest and most influential heavy metal artists of all time. He is known for popularizing the "Metal Horns" hand gesture in metal culture and his medieval-themed song lyrics. According to a version provided by the singer himself, the act derives directly from the classic Italian apotropaic gesture, which his grandmother usually did. Dio had a powerful, versatile vocal range and was capable of singing both hard rock and lighter ballads. He was awarded the "Metal Guru Award" by Classic Rock Magazine in 2006. He was also named the "Best Metal singer" at the Revolver Golden Gods Awards in 2010 and ranked as the genre's best vocalist in 2013 by music journalist Sacha Jenkins.
In 2009, Dio was diagnosed with stomach cancer and underwent treatment at the M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, Texas.
On May 4, 2010, Heaven & Hell announced they were canceling all summer dates as a result of Dio's health condition. His last live performance was with Heaven & Hell on August 29, 2009, in Atlantic City, New Jersey. Dio died of the illness on May 16, 2010. Two weeks after his death, a public memorial service was held at The Hall of Liberty, Forest Lawn Hollywood Hills, Los Angeles. The hall was filled to capacity, with many more fans sitting outside the hall watching the memorial on multiple giant screens on both the east and south sides of the hall. Friends, family, and former and current bandmates of Dio gave speeches and performed including Rudy Sarzo, Geoff Tate, John Payne, Glenn Hughes, Joey Belladonna, and Heaven & Hell keyboard player, Scott Warren. On the screen was an accompanying documentary covering Dio's career from his early days with Elf to his final project with Heaven & Hell
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Jorn - Song For Ronnie James (Official video)
Sweet fuck this is good ๐ ย Song For Ronnie James from Jornโs 2010 tribute album to Dio ๐ค ย
Song For Ronnie James
There is a voice in the world for the lonely There is a fire in the heart of the king And the broken ones will know they are not the only When he starts to sing I turn to face the sun When pain is calling My mind is on the run Another angel falling The legend lives Like a rainbow in the dark For the children and runaway heart When you dream evil And your world is lost and blind He will move your inner soul With the sound of rock nโ roll! Itโs rock and roll! Ah! One more for the vision Oh! Letโs for one more for the road Mystery in the night, yeah! Itโs our fire of light We are legion And the legacy lives on I must save the crystal ball When the wizard starts to fall I can hear the call! This is a song, this a song for Ronnie James Weโll never lose it, the soul of music Come join the family all you children of the sea Sail on forever and be a melody Do you find it strange that someone wrote this song But a feel the magic and it makes me strong Like the Book of Revelations I will find my inspiration You are always there to fall in hell or heaven One night in the city Hear the master of the moon Feel the power Sending shivers cross the room Neon knights of the darkness They are hungry for rock He will light their inner spark Heโs a hunter of the heart! This is a song, a song for Ronnie James When life is broken his words are spoken Come and join the family, we will make the whole world see We rock forever, this is our destiny I wrote this song for the father of sign! Oh, oh, oh, oh! Yeah! Everyone should come together We donโt want to stand alone Time will come we must live as one For the morning Everyone should cry together We donโt want to stand alone
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Happy Heavenly Birthday Ronni James Dio #Dio #blacksabbath #rainbow #elf July 10, 1942 - May 16, 2010 r.i.p What's your favorite Ronnie James Dio song? https://www.jrocksmetalzone.com/. https://www.instagram.com/p/Cf1Sexkuaq2/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=
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โLong Live Rockย โnโ Rollโ by Rainbow
In a different time When the words didn't rhyme You could never quite be sure Then on with the change It was simple but strange And you knew the feeling seemed to say it all It cries for you It's the least that you can do Like a spiral on the wind I can hear it screamin' in my mind
Metal Monday - R.I.P. Ronnie James Dio (1942-2010) \m/
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EXTRA 3
The Big 4 (Anthrax/Megadeth/Slayer/Metallica),
Live From Sofia, Bulgaria,
2010 Universial
ํ์ฐฝ์์ ์์จํ์ต์๊ฐ์ ์ฌ์ฌํด์ ๋ง๋ค์ด๋ณด๊ณค ํ์ ์์ ์์ ๋ก ํ์คํฐ๋ฒ ๋ผ์ธ์
์ด ์๋ค. ์ด๋ฐ์ ๋ฐ ๋ง์ ๋๋ ๋ฐด๋๋ค์ ํ ๋ฌด๋์ ์ฌ๋ ค๋ณด๊ณค ํ๋, ๊ณต์ ์์๋ ์กด์ฌํ๋ ๋ฆฌ์คํธ. 2010๋
๊ทธ๊ฒ์ด ํ์ค์ด ๋์ด ๋์์๋ค. ์์ ์ค๋์ฌ ๋ฉํ(Thrash Metal)์ 4๋ ์ฒ์์ด๋ผ ๋ถ๋ฆฌ๋ ์ค์ฐ๋์ค(Anthrax), ๋ฉ๊ฐ๋ฐ์ค(Megadeth), ์ฌ๋ ์ด์ด(Slayer), ๋ฉํ๋ฆฌ์นด(Metallica)๊ฐ ๋ถ๊ฐ๋ฆฌ์ ์ํผ์์์ ์ด๋ฆฐ ํ์คํฐ๋ฒ์ ๋ชจ๋ ์ฐธ๊ฐํ๋ค. 30๋
์ ๊ฐ๊น์ด ํ๋ ๊ธฐ๊ฐ์ ์ฒ์ ์๋ ์ผ์ด๊ณ , ์ด๋ฅผ ๊ธฐ๋
ํ๊ณ ์ ์คํฉ DVD(+CD)๊ฐ ๋ฐ๋งค๋์๋ค. ํํธ์ผ๋ก๋ ์ด๋ฐ ๊ณต์ฐ๊ธฐํ์ด ์ ์ธ์ ์ผ ๊ฐ๋ฅํ๊ฒ ๋๋์ง ์๋ฌธ์ด ๋ค๊ธฐ๋ ํ์ง๋ง ์ผ๋จ ํค๋น๋ฉํ ๊ณ์ ๊ฑฐ์ฑ์ผ๋ก ์๋ฆฌ ์ก์ ๋ค ๋ฐด๋์ ํฉ๋๊ณต์ฐ์ ๊ทธ ์์ฒด๋ง์ผ๋ก๋ ํฐ ํ์ ๋ฅผ ์ผ์ผํค๊ธฐ์, ์ถฉ๋ถํ๋ค.
์ผ๋จ ๊ณต์ฐ๊ตฌ์ฑ์ ์ค์ฐ๋์ค๋ฅผ ์์์ผ๋ก ๋ฉ๊ฐ๋ฐ์ค, ์ฌ๋ ์ด์ด ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ ๋๋ฏธ๋ ๋ฉํ๋ฆฌ์นด๊ฐ ์ฅ์ํ๋ค. ์์ ์ธ ๋ฐด๋์๋ ๊ฐ๊ฐ ์ฝ 1์๊ฐ ์ ๋์ ๊ณต์ฐ์๊ฐ์ด, ๋ฉํ๋ฆฌ์นด๋ ์ฝ 2์๊ฐ์ด ์ฃผ์ด์ง๋๋ฐ ์๋ง๋ ๋ค ๋ฐด๋ ์ฌ์ด์ ์กด์ฌํ๋ ์ง๋ช
๋์ ํฐ์ผํ์ ๋ฑ์ ์ด์ ๋ก ์ด๋ฃจ์ด์ง ํธ์ฑ์ด ์๋์ง ์ถ์ธก๋ง ํด๋ณธ๋ค. ์ญ์ฌ์ ์ธ ๋ฌด๋์ธ ๋งํผ ๋ชจ๋๊ฐ ๋ค ๊ฐ์ด ์ฐธ์ฌํ๋ ๋ฌด๋๋ ๋ฉํ๋ฆฌ์นด์ โAm I Evil?โ ์์์ ๋ง๋ จ์ด ๋๋ค.
Anthrax (CD1) โโโโ
์ ์ฒด ํ์ฌ์ ์คํ๋์ด๋ผ ํด์ผ๊ฒ ๋ค. ์ฐธ์ฌํ ๋ฐด๋ ์ค์์ ๊ฐ์ฅ ์ฌ๋ฐ๊ณ ์ ๋๋ ์ฐ์ฃผ๋ฅผ ๋ค๋ ค ์ฃผ๋ฌด๋ก์จ ์คํ๋์ผ๋ก๋ ์ ๊ฒฉ์ด๋ผ ์๊ฐ๋๋ค. ํ๋ ฅ ์๋ ์ฐ์ฃผ๋ฅผ ๋ฐํ์ผ๋ก ์ฒญ์ค์ ์ ๋ํ๋ ๋ฐ๋์ก์ด ์ญํ ์ ์ ๋๋ก ๋ณด์ฌ์ค๋ค. ํนํ ๊ณต์ฐ ํ ๋ฌ ์ ์ฏค ์์ผ๋ก ์ฌ๋งํ ๋์ ๋ฐฐ ๋ก๋ ์ ์์ค ๋์ค(Ronnie James Dio)๋ฅผ ์ถ๋ชจํ๊ธฐ ์ํด 'Heaven And Hell'์ด ์ฐ์ฃผ๋๋ ๊ฐ๋์ ์ธ ์ฅ๋ฉด์ ์ฐ์ถํ๊ธฐ๋ ํ๋ค. ํ์ง๋ง ๋์ค๊ฐ ์ผ๋ง๋ ํ๋ฅญํ ๋ณด์ปฌ๋ฆฌ์คํธ์๋์ง ์กฐ์ด ๋ฒจ๋ผ๋๋(Joey Belladonna)์ ๊ทน๋ช
ํ ๋น๊ต๋๋ ์๊ฐ์ด๊ธฐ๋ ํ๋ค. ์กด ๋ถ์(John Bush) ์์ ์ ๊ณก์ธ 'Only'์ ๊ทธ ์ธ์ ๊ณก์์ ๋ณด์ฌ์ฃผ๋ ์กฐ์ด ๋ฒจ๋ผ๋๋์ ๋ณด์ปฌ์ ํ์ ๋ถ์น๋ ์ธ์์ ๋จ๊ธด๋ค.
Megadeth (CD2) โโโโโ
๋ค ํ์ ๊ณต์ฐ ์ค ๊ฐ์ฅ ๋ง์ ๋๋ ๊ฒ์ ๋ฝ์ผ๋ผ๋ฉด ๊ฐ์ธ์ ํธ๋ถํธ๋ฅผ ๋ ๋ ๋ฉ๊ฐ๋ฐ์ค๋ฅผ ์ ํํ๊ฒ ๋ค. 12๊ณก์ ์
๋ฆฌ์คํธ๋ ๋๋ฌด๋ ๊ฒ ์๊ณ , ๋ฐด๋์ ์๋
๋ฒ ์ด์์คํธ ๋ฐ์ด๋น๋ ์ํ์จ(David Ellefson)๋ ๋์์๋ค. ๊ฑฐ์ ์ผ ์์ด 12๊ณก์ ๋ชฐ์๋ถ์ด๋ ์์ค์๋ ์ฒญ์ค๋ค์ ์ ๊ทน์ ์ธ ์๋ฐ์ ์ฐธ์ฌ๊ฐ ๋๋ผ์ธ ์ ๋๋ค. 'A Tout Le Monde'์์์ ๋ํฉ์ฐฝ์ด ์๊ถ์ด๋ค. ์ ๊ตํ ์ฐ์ฃผ์ ์ฒญ์ค๋ค์ ๋จ๊ฑฐ์ด ๋ฐ์์ด ๋๋ณด์ด๊ณ , 'Holy Warsโฆ'๋ก ์์๋ ๊ณต์ฐ์ ๋ง์ง๋ง์ ๊ฐ์ ๊ณก์ 'Repriseโ ํ์์ผ๋ก ๋์ ๋งบ๋ ์๋ฏธ์๊ด์ ๊ณต์ฐ๊ตฌ์ฑ์ด ๋ฉ์ง๋ค.
Slayer (CD3) โโโโ
์ฐธ์ฌํ ๋ฐด๋ ์ค์์ ๊ฐ์ฅ ๊ฐ์ฑ์ ์ฌ์ด๋๋ฅผ ์ถ๊ตฌํ๋ ์ฌ๋ ์ด์ด๋ต๊ฒ ๊ณต์ฐ์ฅ ์ ์ฒด๋ฅผ ์๋ํ๋ ์๋์ง๋ฅผ ๋ถ์ถํ๋ค. ๋ฐ์ด๋ธ ๋กฌ๋ฐ๋ฅด๋(Dave Lombardo)์ ๊ณต๊ฒฉ์ ์ธ ํฌ ๋ฒ ์ด์ค ๋๋ผ, ์ ํ ํ๋ค๋ง(Jeff Hanneman)๊ณผ ์ผ๋ฆฌ ํน(Kerry King)์ ์ด์ธ์ ์ธ ๊ธฐํ ๋ฆฌํ ๋๋ถ์ด ํฐ ์์ด๋ผ์ผ(Tom Araya)์ ๊ดด์ฑ์ ๊ฐ๊น์ด ๋ณด์ปฌ์ด ์ผ๋ฐฉ์ ์ผ๋ก ๋ชฐ์๋ถ์ด๋ ์ฌ๋ ์ด์ด์ ๋ฌด๋๋ ๋ค ํ ์ค ๊ฐ์ฅ ์นด๋ฆฌ์ค๋ง๊ฐ ๋์น๋ค.
Metallica (CD4&5) โโโ
์ ์ผํ๊ฒ ๋ ์๊ฐ์ ๊ณต์ฐ์ ํ๋ ๋ฉํ๋ฆฌ์นด์ ๋ฌด๋๋ ์ด๋ฏธ ๋๋ฌด๋ ์ต์ํ ํ์ ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ ์ปค๋ค๋ ํฅ๋ฏธ๋ฅผ ์ผ์ผํค์ง๋ ๋ชปํ๋ค. ์ด์ ์ ์ด๋ค์ ๊ณต์ฐ์ด๋ DVD๋ฅผ ๋ณธ ์ ์ด ์๋ค๋ฉด ๋ค๋ถํ ๋ฌผ๋ฆด ์ ์๋ ๋ฌด๋. ๋ค๋ง ์์์ด ๋ ์๊ฐ์ ๋ค ๋ฐด๋์ ๊ฑฐ์ ๋ชจ๋ ๋ฉค๋ฒ๊ฐ ๋ฌด๋์ ์ค๋ฅด๋ 'Am I Evil?โ ์ ๋์ผ ๊ฒ์ด๋ค. ๋ฉ๊ฐ๋ฐ์ค์ ๋ฐ์ด๋ธ ๋จธ์คํ
์ธ(Dave Mustaine)๋ ๋ฉํ๋ฆฌ์นด์ ๋ฌด๋์ ์ค๋ฅธ ๊ฒ ์์ญ ๋
๋ง์ ์ฒ์์ด์์ผ๋. ๋ชจ๋๊ฐ ์ฐธ์ฌํ๋ค๋ ๋ฐ ์์๊ฐ ์์ ๋ฟ, ์ฌ์ค ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ ํ์ํ๊ฒ ๋ค๋ฆฌ์ง๋ ์๋๋ค. ์ฐจ๋ผ๋ฆฌ ์์์ผ๋ก ๋ณด๋ ๊ฒ ๋ ์ข๋ค.
์ ๋ถ๋ฅผ ๋ค ๋ค์ผ๋ ค๋ฉด ๋ค์ฏ ์๊ฐ์ด ๋๋๋ฐ, ํ๊ฐํ ๋ ํผ์๋ง์ ๋ฉํ์ถ์ ๋ฅผ ๋ฒ์ด๊ณ ์ถ๋ค๋ฉด ์ด ๋ฐฉ๋ฒ๋ ์ข์ ๋ฏ. ์๋๋ฉด ๋ฐด๋๋ณ๋ก ๋ฐ๋ก ๋ค์ด๋ ์์ฃผ ๊ด์ฐฎ์ ์คํฉ์๋ฐ์ด๋ค. 4๋ ์ค๋์ฌ ๋ฉํ๋ฐด๋์ ์ฌ์ด๋๋ณ์ฒ์ ํ์ฅ๊ฐ ์๊ฒ ๋น๊ต ๊ฐ์ํ ์ ์๋ 'ํค๋น๋ฉํ ์ข
ํฉ์ ๋ฌผ์ธํธโ.
PLAY IT LOUD!
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5์ 2์ผ ์ธ์์ ๋ ๋ ์ฌ๋ ์ด์ด(Slayer)์ ๊ธฐํ๋ฆฌ์คํธ ์ ํ ํ๋ค๋ง(Jeff Hanneman)์ ๋ช
๋ณต์ ๋น๋ค. ย R.I.P. Jeff Hanneman (1964 - 2013)
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#Dio#Genre: Heavy Metal#Themes: Heroism Fantasy Metaphors Humanity Death#USA#Ronnie James Dio Vocals Keyboards (1982-2010)#Ronnie James Dio (R.I.P. 2010)#Ronald James Padavona#Holy Diver#The Last in Line#Sacred Heart#Intermission#80's#80s
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Friday, April 12: Dio, "Breathless"
R.I.P. Ronnie James Dio (1942-2010), Jimmy Bain (1947-2016)
Ronnie James Dio sang with two major acts before striking out on his own, but the success of Holy Diver gave him license to fully unleash his id on The Last in Line.ย And while the second Dio album was mostly a logical continuation of its predecessor, there was enough randomness generated by the man going all-in on his preoccupations and tics that something like โBreathlessโ, which began with a simultaneously bluesy and gnarled Vivian Campbell riff before Ronnie barged in with โNo No No No No!!!โ, stood out in all sorts of ways, not all of them good.ย The track was a rocker driven by Vinny Appiceโs blocky percussion and Jimmy Bainโs bass, with Campbellโs guitar more like window dressing (certainly a point of contention for the increasingly malcontent future Whitesnake and Def Leppard axeman), though of course there was no suppressing the power and passion of Ronnieโs growl, even if one was rarely sure about what he was really going on about.ย โBreathlessโ was awesome and ridiculous in equal measure, and nobody would expect anything less from prime Dio.
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Ronnie James Dioย -ย July 10, 1942 / May 16, 2010 R.I.P.ย my friend... you were awesome and still are.
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Happy Birthday R.I.P.
Ronald James Padavona (July 10, 1942 โ May 16, 2010), known professionally as Ronnie James Dio or simply Dio, was an American heavy metal singer-songwriter and composer, and was also known for popularizing the sign of the horns in heavy metal. ๐ค๐ปโค๐ค๐ฅ๐ฅ
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DIO (US) - "The Last In Line" (release date: July 2nd, 1984) R.I.P. Ronnie James Dio (1942-2010) & Jimmy Bain (1947-2016) Side one 1. "We Rock" 2. "The Last in Line" 3. "Breathless" 4. "I Speed at Night" 5. "One Night in the City" Side two 6. "Evil Eyes" 7. "Mystery" 8. "Eat Your Heart Out" 9. "Egypt (The Chains Are On)" Ronnie James Dio โ lead vocals Vivian Campbell โ guitar Jimmy Bain โ bass Claude Schnell - keyboards Vinny Appice โ drums, percussion #DIO #TheLastInLine #2ndAlbum #American #HeavyMetal #IOSIT #OldFrank https://www.instagram.com/p/BzaSyj1AOll/?igshid=hmahos4hja6
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Ronnie James Dio the Brave Warrior - Sketch by Eric Hidalgo
Ronald James Padavona, known professionally as Ronnie James Dio or simply Dio, was an American singer, songwriter, and musician. He fronted and/or founded numerous groups including Elf, Rainbow, Black Sabbath, Dio, and Heaven & Hell. He is credited with popularizing the โmetal hornsโ hand gesture in metal culture and was known for his medieval-themed lyrics. Dio possessed a powerful, versatile vocal range, and was capable of singing both hard rock and lighter ballads.
R.I.P.: Ronnie James Dio (July 10, 1942 - May 16, 2010)
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