Fabio Lione
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Fabio Tordiglione (born 9th October, 1973 in Pisa, Italy) is an Italian singer who has sung with many music bands including Rhapsody Of Fire, Labyrinth, Vision Divine and Athena. Lione started making eurobeat songs in 2000, but has decided to continue his solo career with and work with Rhapsody Of Fire.
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[edit] Personal background
As a child, Fabio was mainly interested in nature and animals. He usually painted animals and played video games. Early in his life he was not involved in music, and had yet to discover his passion for music. At the age of 14 in 1987 he bought his first heavy metal album, The Final Countdown by Europe. While he was studying at technical high school in Pisa. Fabio realised he had a good singing voice after his classmates were impressed by his singing. He took vocal lessons for baritone taught by an old friend.
[edit] Musical career
Lione's career started in 1990 at the age of 17 when he began to sing with a small rock and roll underground group who played classics of 1950s and 1960s similar to Elvis Presley's songs. He had the passion for groups such as Queensrÿche, Fates Warning, Crimson Glory, which inspired him to form his own heavy metal band.
His musical activities continued with a young group from Pisa, named Athena. They were a progressive metal band with their own unique style and challenged various expressions. Lione recorded a demotape with Athena and it was his first experience in a metal band. Lione did twenty shows with the band, but after two years, he left the band in 1994. Athena made their first album in 1995 (Inside the moon).
At first his stage name was Joe Terry which was the combination of his favourite heroes' names in Japanese games (Joe Higashi and Terry Bogard from Fatal Fury). His first piece of musical equipment was a Shure SM 58 microphone.
[edit] Labyrinth
Lione met the band Labyrinth, at the time the band was called "Vision", but later the band changed their name to "Labyrinth". Shortly after, in 1993 the band started to work on a demotape called Midnight Resistance. Before the album No Limits was released, Lione recorded a mini CD with Labyrinth.
Lione created the album No Limits together with Olaf, a band member of Labyrinth. His lyrics were mainly based on his personal experiences and his emotions. All the lyrics in the album were connected, Lione did this as an experiment. Labyrinth's style was different from other bands because it was mixed with different music genres including thrash metal, progressive rock and electric pop music. Lione was the singer of Labyrinth for just more than three years. He had to leave the band since the other members did not want to become too popular.
[edit] Athena
Athena called Lione so they could start work on their second album A New Religion which was released in 1998. Lione wrote the lyrics and the vocal lines for ten songs, the lyrics used religious and philosophical words and had the tendency to reflect deep meanings on their music. Lione and the other members of Athena attended Axel Rudi Pell Tour 1998 with Dreamscape, another progressive metal band from Germany in December. Shortly after the tour the band decided to break up.
[edit] Vision Divine
Lione returned to collaborate with Olaf Thorsen for Vision Divine, They recorded the first album Vision divine at Dave Rodgers Studio (Romanore), in which Lione made 9 vocal lines and wrote the lyrics for one song, then published it in October. The type of their music showed their tastes of straight hard rock styles in 1980s that they were influenced so much. Their theme and the lyrics included "divine" thoughts, ruling human lives, with the images of angels or God. Lione was invited as a guest singer to Ayreon, Arjen Anthony Lucassen's project, and recorded a song "Through a Wormhole" in the album Flight of The Migrator Part2. His expressive vocals effectively described the thrilling and mystic atmosphere in a particular, progressive rock style.
In 2002 Lione released a new album with Vision Divine. In January. The second album of Vision Divine recorded at Rodgers Studio from Send me an angel was released. Lione composed eight vocal lines for this album, their expressions became more serious and deeper, close to the reality of divinity and humanity with progressive and heavy sounds and the album Beto Vazquez Infinity was released in february, including the song "The battle of the Past" in which Lione was singing as a guest vocalist for Beto Vazquez project.
In 2003 Lione attended shows with Vision Divine at Gods of Metal 2003 (Milan) and at Heineken Jammin' Festival (Imola) in June. He then recorded four demo songs with Vision Divine in November and performed on Italian Tour in December. Shortly after it was announced Lione had to leave the band, he gave the band six new vocal lines and they started a new album with a different singer (Michele Luppi)
[edit] Rhapsody / Rhapsody Of Fire
Rhapsody first began negotiations with Fabio at Gate Pathway Studio in Wolfsburg (Germany) after hearing him in the "Piece of Time" album from Labyrinth. Shortly after the band had got to know Fabio he joined the band to work on new albums with them. His first album with Rhapsody was "Legendary tales" in 1997.
Rhapsody received the sensational reputations to the 1st album, and began to create the second one, with more classic music tastes, orchestral sounds and operatic elements with a choir. Fabio recorded "Symphony of enchanted lands" with them from May to August, and it was relesased in November. Another EP album "Emerald sword" was published a little ahead of it in October. Fabio's excellent vocal was developed much more with the epic sounds of Rhapsody.
In 2000 Rhapsody released their third album "Dawn of Victory" and held concerts in which Fabio participated. Fabio's vocal style became more aggressive and strong with their emphasys of power metal taste in this album. This energetic vocal sounded effective especially for their shows.
In 2001 Fabio held many concerts. He also recorded a new EP album Rain of a Thousand Flames with Rhapsody in Germany between April and August, the album was released in December. Although the album was an EP, it included some songs over 10 minutes as well as rapid metal songs. Fabio performed on stages with Rhapsody at Gods of Metal 2001 (Milan) in June, during South American Tour(Mexico, Colombia, Brazil and Chile) and at Rock Machina Festival(Spain) in July. At the same time he sang with Vision Divine at 2 concerts in Italy in May and at Festa dell'unit Suzzara (Mantova) in August. After that Fabio recorded the 4th album "Power of the dragonflame" with Rhapsody at the studio in Germany during November and December. He tried various vocal styles from the aggressive/death voice to the perfect operatic style in "Lamento Eroico", this was a good chance for him to grow his possibilities as a talented vocalist.
Rhapsody travelled with Stratovarius and Sonata Arctica on a successful European Tour in April and May when they also had a chance to join the Wacken Festival 2000 in Germany. Fabio attended Rock Machina Festival in Spain in July and traveled with Vision Divine on South American Tour (Mexico, Panama, Brazil, Chile and Argentina) in November and December. In the same year many bands including Rhapsody and Vision Divine published a tribute album to Helloween "The Keepers of Jericho". Fabio sang 2 songs "Guardians" with Rhapsody and "Eagle fly free" with Vision Divine in this album.
Rhapsody released "Power of the dragonflame" in March and it had good reviews. Together with their fame spreading in the world, Fabio's great vocal came to be esteemed higher as "The Voice of Italian Metal". .: Fabio set out on the first headliner tour of Rhapsody(Germany, France, Italy, Spain, the Netherlands, Belgium, Switzerland, Japan and Korea) and joined the summer festivals in Europe - Bang your head Festival (Germany) with Rhapsody, Wacken Festival 2002(Germany) and "Z7" (Pratteln, Switzerland) with Vision Divine.
In February, 2004 Fabio finished vocals for Rhapsody's new album Symphony of Enchanted Lands part 2. Fabio went to be on Rhapsody promo tour for their new album from July to September (Canada, US, Germany, Sweden, Czech Republic, Greece, UK). On the release day 27 September they had a signing session with Christopher Lee in London. Fabio appeared with Rhapsody on a TV music program in Germany in October. He showed his passionate performance for the Unholy Warcry live song. In August, he started recording the 5th album with Rhapsody in Germany. Adding more new arrangements to their music, the process of their main production took time from October to November. Fabio did his best with the members of Rhapsody for this new masterpiece.
[edit] Eurobeat
Fabio's first eurobeat song Eye of the Tiger was released in Japan. His name for eurobeat project was "J. Storm", deriving from Joey Tempest. He has published eleven eurobeat songs up until 2003.
Fabio has thought about stopping his eurobeat music and deciding to concentrate on continuing his successful career with Rhapsody of Fire and his solo project.
[edit] Discography
[edit] Albums
- Rhapsody Of Fire releases
- Legendary Tales (1997)
- Symphony of Enchanted Lands (1998)
- Emerald Sword (single) (1998)
- Dawn of Victory (2000)
- Holy Thunderforce (single) (2000)
- Rain of a Thousand Flames (2001)
- Power of the Dragonflame (2002)
- Symphony of Enchanted Lands II: The Dark Secret (2004)
- The Magic of the Wizard's Dream (single) (2005)
- Live In Canada 2005: The Dark Secret (2006)
- Triumph or Agony (2006)
- Labyrinth releases
- Athena releases
- A New Religion (1998)
- Vision Divine releases
- Ayreon releases
- Miscellaneous releases
- Beto Vázquez Infinity / Battle of Valmourt (2001)
- Beto Vázquez Infinity / Beto Vázquez Infinity (2001)
- The Keppers of Jericho/ Various Artists (2000)
- J.Storm Eurobeat Songs
[edit] External links and references
- Fabio Lione's official website
- Fabio Lione - The voice of Italian metal
- Rhapsody Swedish site, Fabio Lione Information
- Full Discography with album covers
- Fabio Lione at MusicBrainz
| Vision Divine |
| Olaf Thorsen | Michele Luppi | Cristiano Bertocchi | Federico Puleri | Alessio "Tom" Lucatti | Alessandro "Bix" Bissa |
| Former members: Fabio Lione | Matteo Amoroso | Andrew Mc Pauls | Oleg Smirnoff | Mat Stancioiu | Andrea "Tower" Torricini | Ricky Quagliato |
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| Discography |
| Studio Albums: Vision Divine | Send me an Angel | Stream of Consciousness | The Perfect Machine | The 25th Hour |
| Live videos: Stage of Consciousness |
| Related articles |
| Timo Tolkki | Labyrinth |
