Rudy Sarzo is a bass guitarist born Rodolfo Maximiliano Sarzo Lavieille Grande Ruiz Payret y Chaumont in Havana, Cuba on November 18, 1950. He emigrated to the United States in 1961. Sarzo has played with many bands including Quiet Riot, Ozzy Osbourne, Whitesnake, Manic Eden, Dio and Blue Öyster Cult.
From March 1981 to September 1982, Sarzo rose to fame as the bassist in ex-Black Sabbath vocalist Ozzy Osbourne's band. He was recruited on the rec...
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Rudy Sarzo is a bass guitarist born Rodolfo Maximiliano Sarzo Lavieille Grande Ruiz Payret y Chaumont in Havana, Cuba on November 18, 1950. He emigrated to the United States in 1961. Sarzo has played with many bands including Quiet Riot, Ozzy Osbourne, Whitesnake, Manic Eden, Dio and Blue Öyster Cult.
From March 1981 to September 1982, Sarzo rose to fame as the bassist in ex-Black Sabbath vocalist Ozzy Osbourne's band. He was recruited on the recommendation of guitarist Randy Rhoads, who had previously played with Sarzo in Quiet Riot. Sarzo can be heard on Osbourne's Speak of the Devil and Tribute live albums. The liner notes of Osbourne's 1981 studio album Diary of a Madman list Sarzo as the bassist, though Bob Daisley actually played bass on the recordings. Following Rhoads' death in a plane crash in 1982, Sarzo left Osbourne's band and rejoined Quiet Riot from the period of September 1982 to January 1985. He recorded the multi-platinum album Metal Health with the band, the first...
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