**American heavy rock singer Ronnie James Dio, who replaced Ozzy Osbourne in Black Sabbath, has died at the age of 67, his wife has said.**Dio had been suffering from stomach cancer.
Before joining Black Sabbath he sang in Rainbow - formed when Ritchie Blackmore left Deep Purple - and later in Heaven & Hell and Dio.
Dio’s wife Wendy said on her husband’s website: “Please know he loved you all and his music will live on forever.”
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