Late rocker Ronnie James Dio grew up in Cortland and graduated from Cortland City School in 1960. The heavy metal singer performed with bands Heaven & Hell, Dio, Elf and Rainbow, plus replaced ...

Download Festival are paying tribute to Ronnie James Dio by naming a stage after him. The 67-year-old Black Sabbath, Rainbow and Heaven & Hell legend lost his battle with stomach cancer on Sunday.

He performed with Rainbow, Elf, Heaven & Hell, and Dio; he also replaced Ozzy Osbourne as the lead vocalist for Black Sabbath in 1979. ... The hologram appears on stage with live band members, ...

Since the death of singer Ronnie James Dio in 2010, something of a cottage industry has sprung up, ... Rainbow and his self-titled solo band. ...

On his own, or with bands like Elf, Rainbow and Black Sabbath, it’s Ronnie James Dio’s voice that has been his main calling card.And over the years, its power or ability to reach the high ...

Ronnie James Dio’s autobiography, Rainbow in the Dark, will finally be published posthumously July 27th via Permuted Press. Dio, who died in 2010 after a battle with gastric cancer, began ...

Dio’s wife and manager, Wendy Dio, points to the fact that both Rainbow and Sabbath were British bands with American members.

As the singer of Rainbow (from 1975-1979), Dio first came to the attention of rock fans worldwide. From there he had the daunting task of taking over for Ozzy Osbourne in Black Sabbath (1979-1982 ...