RONNIE JAMES DIO To Receive Posthumous Lifetime Achievement Award From Syracuse Area Music Hall Of Fame
March 6, 2014, 10 years ago
According to Syracuse.com, legendary singer RONNIE JAMES DIO (BLACK SABBATH, DIO, HEAVEN & HELL, RAINBOW, ELF) will be posthumously awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Syracuse Area Music Hall Of Fame. The award comes nearly four years after his sudden death from stomach cancer. Dio grew up in Cortland, NY before being lured to Los Angeles.
Dio's son, Dan Padavona, will be on hand to accept the award for his late father. "I hope it's a way to get closer to my father in his death than I did in his life," he said of the award. "I'm sure he'd be very happy that I'm up there with Rock (David Feinstein) and a few of his closest friends."
Today in Cortland, there's a street named after Dio (Dio Way). The town holds Dio Days concerts in his honor. A banner flies downtown with his face on it. In 2004 the rocker was inducted into the Cortland High School Hall of Fame.
But much of this recognition was long overdue, says Dio's son, Dan Padavona.
Read more at Syracuse.com.
(Dio photo courtesy of Håkon Grav)
