Fabio Lione

Infobox musical artist
Name = Fabio Lione

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Birth_name = Fabio Tordiglione
Alias =
Born = birth date and age|1973|10|9
Pisa, Italy
Died =
Origin =
Instrument = Singer, Keyboard
Occupation = Musician, Songwriter
Years_active = 1990 - present
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Associated_acts = Rhapsody of Fire, Vision Divine
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Fabio Tordiglione (born 9 October, 1973) 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.

Musical career

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 songsFact|date=May 2008. 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.

Labyrinth

Lione met the band Labyrinth, then going under the name of "Vision". 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 and progressive rock. 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 popularFact|date=May 2008

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.

Vision Divine

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)

In 2008 Lione took part at some shows with Vision Divine to celebrate the ten years of the band.On the 28th of May, Vision Divine announced that Fabio Lione has rejoined the band as new singer.

Rhapsody / Rhapsody of Fire

Rhapsody first began negotiations with Lione 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 Lione 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. Lione recorded "Symphony of Enchanted Lands" with them from May to August, and it was released in November. Another EP album "Emerald sword" was published a little ahead of it in October.

In 2000 Rhapsody released their third album "Dawn of Victory" and held concerts in which Lione participated. His vocal style became more aggressive and strong with their emphasis of power metal taste in this album. This energetic vocal sounded effective especially for their shows.

In 2001 Lione 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. Lione 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 Lione 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. Lione 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". Lione 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. Lione 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 he finished vocals for Rhapsody's new album "Symphony of Enchanted Lands part 2". He 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. Lione appeared with Rhapsody on a TV music program in Germany in October in which 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.

Eurobeat

Lione's first eurobeat song "Eye of the Tiger" was released in Japan in 2001. His name for eurobeat project was "J. Storm", deriving from Joey Tempest. He published thirteen eurobeat songs under this name between 2001 and 2005 and has declared that he wouldn't be making anymore eurobeat in the future.

Not to be confused with Lione, fellow Labyrinth band member Roberto Tiranti also published several eurobeat songs, under the names "Powerful T." and "De La Vega".

Discography

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)
*"" (2004)
*"The Magic of the Wizard's Dream" (single) (2005)
*"" (2006)
*"Triumph or Agony" (2006)

;Labyrinth releases:
*"Piece of Time" (1995)
*"No Limits" (1996)

;Athena releases:
*"A New Religion" (1998)

;Vision Divine releases:
*"Vision Divine" (1999)
*"Send me an Angel" (2002)

;Ayreon releases:
*"" (1999)

;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"

External links and references

* [http://www.fabio-lione.com/index.php Official website]
* [http://hem.passagen.se/tobiasha/rhapsody/fabio.htm Rhapsody Swedish site, Fabio Lione Information]
* [http://www.bnrmetal.com/groups/rhap.htm Full Discography with album covers]
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