Singers that Have Really impressed Me. Ronnie James Dio

All video's courtesy of Youtube.

5ft 4inches tall , Dio's Music career spanned over 50 years. To me He had the Most Powerful Voice in Early Metal.

Started off on Trumpet , also played Bass, several Bands later, and ended up in Elves, album called Elf opening regularly for Deep Purple in the Mid 70's.

There was a bit of Disagreement mid tour ,and Ritchie Blackmore left Purple and recruited Dio for a new Project " Ritchie Blackmore's Rainbow" soon to be just Rainbow.

The first Album I heard by them was Long Live Rock n Roll with several; Great Tracks on it, owned it on Vinyl , foolishly lent it out, never came back.

This was about the time when CD's were first released , the beauty of this was that a lot of albums that one could not obtain any more , were suddenly re-released on CD.

Dio parted Company with Rainbow in 1979, Ozzy had left Black Sabbath , Tony Iommi , asked Dio to join, the rest is Rock History .

From 1979 to 1982 . and a Brief return in 1992

From 1992 to 2004 and releasing 10 Albums we have the Band called Dio

In Oct 2006 we see Dio joining Members of Black Sabbath in a Band called Heaven & Hell .

Black Sabbath were back with Ozzy so using that name would really cause confusion

I have included a Full Concert for your enjoyment here.

They were about to release a new album in 2010 , unfortunately Ronnie succumbed to Stomach Cancer before this could take place

Another one of the Great Characters and voices lost to us!

Have included a Full Dio Concert Below