Fabio Lione

Fabio Tordiglione (born 9 October 1973), known professionally as Fabio Lione, is an Italian singer who has worked with many bands in the metal genre.

He was known for being the singer of Italian symphonic power metal band Rhapsody of Fire for 21 years.

He later formed his own band Turilli / Lione Rhapsody with former Rhapsody of Fire guitarist Luca Turilli.

He is also the current lead vocalist of Angra, and was the original singer of Labyrinth and Vision Divine.

Lione was born in Pisa.

His 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 a passion for groups such as Queensrÿche, Fates Warning, and 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 joined Athena in 1991 and in 1992 they recorded their first demotape.

Shortly after, in 1993 the band started to work on a demotape called Midnight Resistance, lyrics and vocal lines written by Lione.

Before the album No Limits was released, Lione recorded a mini CD with Labyrinth, [Piece of Time] lyrics and vocal lines written by Fabio Lione.

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.

He wrote vocal lines and lyrics for this record, all the lyrics in the album were connected as 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 and progressive rock.

Lione was the singer of Labyrinth for just more than three years.

After several concerts he left the band in 1993 for a new collaboration, the one with Labyrinth.

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.

Lione met the band Labyrinth, then going under the name of "Vision".

Athena called Lione again in '97 ..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.

In 1998, Lione met Olaf Thorsen and to seal their newfound friendship, they decided to create what was originally supposed to be only a side-project: Vision Divine.

The first "Vision Divine" record in 1999 received excellent sales results and criticism (and took the band on tour in South America for the first time).

The second album of Vision Divine Send me an angel was released in January 2002.

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.

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 the Beto Vazquez project.

Lione now found himself in the two groups: Rhapsody and Vision Divine, and this situation continued, with successes in both groups, until 2003.

In 2003, Lione sang at 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 an Italian Tour in December.

Shortly after it was announced Lione had to leave the band, due to his other commitments making it too difficult front this band as well.

He nevertheless spent most of the year writing and left the band nine new vocal lines for the "Stream of Consciousness" album, executed with a different singer.

In 2008, Lione took part in some shows with Vision Divine to celebrate the ten years of the band, and on 28 May, they announced that Fabio had rejoined the band as the new singer.