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.