1973 (0 month old)
.: Fabio was born in Pisa, Italy on 9th October.
.: His original name is Fabio Tordiglione.
.: When Fabio was a child, he was mainly interested in nature..animals..usually painted animals and played video games.
.: His memories or experiences about music were just connected to radio things..and he didn't discover a "passion" for the music..not yet...
1987 (14 years old)
...: He bought his first "metal" album, "The Final Countdown". This first encounter with the famous album of Europe became an important key to open the world of heavy metal music for him.
.: While he was studying at Technical highschool in Pisa, thanks to the classmates who were impressed by his singing "The Final Countdown", he discovered his own beautiful voice. (although he couldn't read the notes well, he could sing exactly like Joey Tempest, especially his high tone range and clear voice are similar to Joey's.)
.: He took vocal lessons for baritone taught by his old friend 12 times (about for 5 months), which developed his vocal to be compared with Freddie Mercury of Queen. He tried to sing some songs of rock bands in English, and also "Una furtiva lacrima"( A secret tear) by Pavarotti.
1990 (17 years old)
.: Fabio saw the Monsters of Rock and his life had changed.
.: He began to sing with a small underground group. The band was a sort of rock and roll cover band..and they played all the classics of '50 and '60, for example Elvis Presley's songs.
.: He had the passion for music of some groups like Queensryche, Fates Warning, Crimson Glory, that made him to decide to form a metal band
1992 (19 years old)
.: Fabio started to listen many CDs..albums..and he was searching for a band....
1993 (20 years old)
.: His musical activities continued with a young group from Pisa, Athena. They were a progressive metal band with their own unique style and challenged various expressions.
.: Fabio recorded a demotape with Athena and it was his first experience in a metal band...
.: He did 20 shows with them..and the demotape was a good experience for them...
.: After 2 years he left the band. Athena did the first album in 1995 ("Inside,the moon" with another singer..)
.: He met the guys of Labyrinth (at the time the band was called "Vision"..Fabio was thinkin' about the original concept of "No limits" and changed the name of the band in "Labyrinth"..after that the band started to work on a demotape "Midnight resistance" in 1993.
1993-94 (20-21 years old)
...: Fabio recorded a demotape with Labyrinth... many concerts... very good years for him!
.: Fabio passed Technical highschool with average marks in 1993. Like he said: "I don't like schools much" so he was mainly singing.
.: He organized a band with his good friend, Carlo Andrea Magnani (better known as Olaf Thorsen). They gave a birth to Labyrinth.
.: They had the concerts in many places in Italy..Fabio was filled with energy and powerfully screamed a lot on stages all the time.
.: At first his stage name was Joe Terry, which was the interesting
combination of his favorite heroes' names in Japanese games, 'cause they thought it was needed not to show their Italian roots.
.: His first instrument was Shure SM 58 microphone.
1995 (22 years old)
.: Fabio recorded a mini CD with Labyrinth. This mini CD was made before the album "No limits"..in the end of 1995..(like a sort of single of the album..) this contains the songs titled "Piece of time""In the shade""Call me"miles away"..vocal lines and lyrics were made by Fabio (except the lyric of "Call me".. made by Olaf).
1996 (23 years old)
...: The First album with Labyrinth was released (but immediately after that he left the band!)
.: Fabio created the vocal lines for 10 songs and the lyrics for 9songs as well, and made up this album "No limits" with Olaf. His lyrics were mainly based on his personal experiences or his real emotions.. he did a sort of "concept"..all the lyrics were connected in the album..(and in the second album of the band "Return to the heaven denied"..Olaf Thorsen..comlpeted the "story" that Fabio started in "No limits"..)
.: Their style was quite new and special, mixed with the elements of thrash metal, progressive rock, electric pop music...etc. He was the singer of Labyrinth for 3 years and half, and they shared a lot of things together.
.: But Fabio had to leave the band, because other members didn't prefer to take a position in the world as one of the top class bands, just the differences between their future visions..and because of some trouble that Fabio had with some members.
1997 (24 years old)
...: First meeting with Rhapsody, and first album with the band!
.: His new brilliant legend was started in this year.. At the same time with his belonging to Athena, he began his collaboration with Rhapsody, a young group from Trieste - now famous in all Europe for their symphonic powermetal. ..
.: It is said their collaboration came true because Sacha Peath (producing the mega hits of Rhapsody) found Fabio's excellence of "Piece of Time" in the first album of Labyrinth..
.: Fabio was called to join recording with Rhapsody at Gate Pathway Studio in Wolfsburg (Germany. Because Fabio met Luca and Alex for the first time, it took time for them to know each others. When Fabio began to sing "Land of Immortals", an arguement happened between them but it was solved with their reconcilation.
.: They gradually understood his abilitiy and personality, and their union was reinforced, then the first masterpiece "Legendary tales" was completed from October 1996 to June 1997, the world welcomed this new release in October.
1998 (25 years old)
...: Album with Athena and second album with Rhapsody!! Great year!
.: The guys of Athena called Fabio..so they started to work on the second album of the band "A new religion?".
.: This album Fabio recorded with Athena came out..in 1998.. Fabio wrote the lyrics and the vocal lines for 10 song, his lyrics were written with "religious and philosophical" words and had the tendency to reflect deep meanings on their music.
.: Fabio and the members of Athena attended Axel Rudi Pell Tour 1998 with Dreamscape, another progressive metal band from Germany in December.
.: But after that, the band regretfully decided to break up because of the changes in their personal life styles.
.: 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.
1999 (26 years old)
...: Participation with Ayreon, and first album of Vision Divine!
.: Fabio returned to collaborate with Olaf Thorsen for Vision Divine, along with Rhapsody. They planned to begin a lot of things simply for their recovered friendship.
.: They recorded the 1st album "Vision divine" at Dave Rodgers Studio (Romanore), in which Fabio made 9 vocal lines and wrote the lyrics for 1 song, then published it in October...
.: The type of their music showed their tastes of straight hard rock styles in '80s that they were influenced so much. Their theme and the lyrics included "divine" thoughts, ruling human lives, with the images of angels or God.
.: Fabio was invited as a guest singer to "Ayreon" Arjen Anthony Lucassen Project, and recorded a song "Through a wormhole" in the album "Flight of The Migrator Part2". His expressive vocal effectively described the thrilling and mystic atmosphere in a particular, progressive rock style..
2000 (27 years old)
.: Many concerts with Rhapsody and the third album with the band!
.: Fabio's successful carrer with Rhapsody went on, the 3rd album "Dawn of victory" was recorded between June and August in Germany. His 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.
.: Fabio went with Rhapsody to join Stratovarius and Sonata Arctica on a successful European Tour (Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Hungary, Germany, Belgium, Holland, Austria, Italy, Switzerland, France, Spain and Portugal)
..in April and May, had a chance to join Wacken Festival 2000(Germany) in August.
.: Moreover, he attended Rock Machina Festival(Spain) in July and traveled with Vision Divine on South American Tour (Mexico, Panama, Brazil, Chile and Argentina) in Nobember and December.
.: In this 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 VD in this album.
.: His first eurobeat song "Eye of the tiger" ("SUPER EUROBEAT vol. 101") was also released in Japan. His name for eurobeat project was J. Strom, deriving from Joey Tempest. He has published 11 eurobeat songs until 2003.
2001 (28 years old)
.: Many concerts, EP with Rhapsody... A particular,strange, and a little sad year for him...
.: He recorded an EP album "Rain of a thousand flames" with Rhapsody in Germany between April and August, and it was released in December. Although it was an EP, it contained some large songs over 10 minutes or speedy power metal songs so that they needed energy as much as for a regular album.
.: 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 agressive/death voice to the perfect operatic style in "Lamento Eroico", it was a good chance for him to grow his possibilities as a talented vocalist.
2002 (29 years old)
...: New album from Vision Divine! And new album from Rhapsody! (On tour very soon after that!)...
.: In January, the second album of Vision Divine "Send me an angel"( recorded at Rodgers Studio from May in 2001) came out. Fabio composed 8 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 an album "Beto Vazquez Infinity" was released in february, including the song "The battle of the past" in which Fabio was singing as a guest vocalist for Beto Vazquez project. His heroic vocal finely matched this brave song.
.: Rhapsody published "Power of the dragonflame" in March and amazingly raised up the ranks on music charts in various countries. 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, Holland, 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, Swizerland) with Vision Divine.
.: Then he recorded 4 demo songs with Vision Divine in November and performed on Italian Tour in December.
2003 (30 years old)
.: Fabio attended the great shows with Vision Divine at Gods of Metal 2003 (Milan) and at Heineken Jammin' Festival (Imola) in June.
.: 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.
.: But finally it became impossble for him to record with Vision Divine until the limited term, so that the announcement was done that Fabio had to leave VD in December(he gave 6 new vocal lines to them and they start to record a new album with a new singer..).
.: He also thought to stop singing eurobeat music and decided to concentrate on his activities with Rhapsody and his solo project in the near future.
2004 (31 years old in coming October)
.: Fabio's vocal parts were finished in February at last. Thus Rhapsody's new album "Symphony of Enchanted Lands part 2" was ready by their efforts. Fabio said "i'm sure you will like the new rhapsody album..it's a new step for us..i think.. i used very different approach in the songs..and i really think it will be a great album.." And his words actually came true.
.: He started to compose new songs for his first solo album. He is thinking of 2 operatic song, 3 metal songs, 2 slow songs(ballades), some cover songs (Queen or Scorpions) and more so far. But this may be changed by his ideas. Fabio said it would be different from Rhapsody, surely a rock album.
.: Fabio went to be on Rhapsody promo tour for their new album from July to September (Canada, US, Germany, Sweden, Czech Republic, Greece, UK). Especially on the release day of 27th September,they had a great signing session with Christopher Lee in London.
.: And Fabio appeared with Rhapsody on a TV music program in Germany in October. He showed his passionate performance for "Unholy Warcry" live song. It was a big chance to spread the fame of Rhapsody and Fabio.
.: Fabio, Rhapsody members and C. Lee were recorded "The Magic of The Wizard's Dream" in 4 languages (English, Italian, French, German) from the latter of November to the beginning of December. This awaited new single will be released early in 2005. Again sensational reputations are expected.