Dio was innate to the personal of Italian heritage. A personal moved to Cortland, New York early on around Ronnie's life. He at the start played horn & potentially recorded many singles using various rockabilly bands during his youth, a 1st 1 when early when 1958. Ronnie grad school inside 1959. In a early Seventies, he formed the band Elf, world health organizatiin went on to exist as an opening work for Deep Purple. Ronnie's vocals caught a ear of Deep Purple guitar virtuoso Ritchie Blackmore & when Blackmore left a band, he recruited Ronnie and more members of Elf to form Rainbow. Fallowing two or three albums using Rainbow, Ronnie left the b& due to originative differences (Blackextra experienced wanted to require a band inside a more commercial counsel), and was recruited by Black Sabbath in 1979 to replace Ozzy Osbourne. Ronnie gave the future jumpstart to Black Sabbath's commercially sagging career by having a tremendously popular Heaven and Hell album. Inside 1982, in a period of the intermixture of the survive album Live Evil, internal b& problems and awful (unwarranted) accusations developed, which lead to Dio and Appice quitting a band to form Dio. Ronnie James Dio presently sleep in California & however records & tours worldwide using Dio.

Band timeline
The Vegas Kings (1957-1958) Ronnie and the Rumblers Ronnie and the Red Caps (1958-1961) Ronnie Dio and the Prophets (1961-1967) The Electric Elves The Elves Elf (1971-1976) Rainbow (1974-1979) Black Sabbath (1979-1983; 1991-1992) Dio (1982-1991, 1993-present)

Discography

With Elf
Elf (1972) Carolina County Ball (1974) Trying To Burn The Sun (1975}

With Rainbow
''Ritchie Blackmore's Rainbow (1975) Rising (1976) On Stage (1977) Long Live Rock 'N' Roll (1978) Live In Germany 76' (1990)

With Black Sabbath
Heaven and Hell (1980) The Mob Rules (1981) Live Evil (1982) Dehumanizer (1992)

With Dio
Holy Diver (1983) The Last in Line (1984) Sacred Heart (1985) Intermission (1986) Dream Evil (1987) Lock up the Wolves (1990) Diamonds: The Best of Dio (1992) Strange Highways (1994) Angry Machines (1996) Inferno: Last in Live (1998) Magica (2000) Killing the Dragon (2002) Evil or Divine (DVD) (2003) Master of the Moon (2004) Evil Or Divine - Live in NYC'' (2005)