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originally posted by: RazorV66
Dio supposedly took the name Ronnie Dio from a mafia figure from the story I’ve heard.
1. He didn't take his stage name from God, but from a gangster Ronald James Padavona was born in Portsmouth, New Hampshire on July 10, 1942, but by the time he started venturing into the music business as a teenager, he had already acquired the moniker that would eventually see him into metal godhood. Anyone with an elementary knowledge of Italian would probably make the assumption that he took his nickname from God (as "Dio" literally means "God" in Italian), but in the singer's autobiography "Rainbow in the Dark", published in 2021, it is confirmed how the singer adopted it from the mobster Giovanni Ignazio Dioguardi, known as Johnny Dio.