As the former figurehead of Rainbow, Black Sabbath and his decades-spanning solo band, Ronnie James Dio was one of the finest and most identifiable voices in all of heavy metal. In fact, nowadays it’s ...

Say, did you know that Ronnie James Dio fronted a series of doo-wop / R&B groups before going on to become heavy metal royalty as the leader of Elf, Rainbow, Dio and Black Sabbath? Impress your ...

Ronnie James Dio, the veteran rock vocalist who replaced Ozzie Osbourne as the lead singer of Black Sabbath, died Sunday morning of complications of stomach cancer, according to Blabbermouth.net, the ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Music was central to his life from an early age. Although he never received any formal vocal ...

Ronnie James Dio may have been best known for fronting the second incarnation of Black Sabbath — and for popularizing the two-fingered "devil's horns" gesture — but to the Lewisburg Area High School ...

The metal world lost one of its greatest voices, and one of its nicest guys, on Sunday morning, when legendary singer Ronnie James Dio died of stomach cancer at 67. After swatting away Internet rumors ...

Ronnie James Dio was born Ronald James Padavona on July 10, 1942 in Portsmouth. His parents moved to Cortland, New York when Ronnie was very young. He started playing the trumpet at the age of five ...

When Ronnie James Dio—announced in 2009 that he had stomach cancer, it certainly gave him an impetus to complete the autobiography that he’d been working on for a while. He’d already had a sizable ...

Reading the recently published Ronnie James Dio memoir Rainbow in the Dark is like unearthing a time capsule buried by the former Rainbow and Black Sabbath singer, who died of stomach cancer in 2010.

Central New York native Ronnie James Dio never forgot where he came from, even as he played sold out shows at Madison Square Garden or was mobbed by fans in Japan as if he was one of the Beatles. In ...