Vinny Appice
Acting
Born1957-09-13
Place of BirthBrooklyn, New York, USA
Biography
Vincent Samson Appice (born September 13, 1957) is an American rock and metal drummer best known for his work with the bands Dio, Black Sabbath, and Heaven & Hell. Of Italian descent, he is the younger brother of drummer Carmine Appice
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![Dio: [1998] Inferno in Sofia](data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2000/svg' width='400' height='600' viewBox='0 0 400 600'%3E%3Cdefs%3E%3ClinearGradient id='grad' x1='0%25' y1='0%25' x2='100%25' y2='100%25'%3E%3Cstop offset='0%25' stop-color='%231f1f2e' /%3E%3Cstop offset='100%25' stop-color='%230d0d12' /%3E%3C/linearGradient%3E%3C/defs%3E%3Crect width='400' height='600' fill='url(%23grad)'/%3E%3Crect width='400' height='600' fill='none' stroke='rgba(255,255,255,0.05)' stroke-width='4'/%3E%3Ctext x='50%25' y='45%25' font-family='system-ui, -apple-system, sans-serif' font-size='28' font-weight='800' fill='%23ffffff' text-anchor='middle' dominant-baseline='middle'%3EDio%3A%20%5B1998%5D%20Inferno%20in%20So...%3C/text%3E%3Ctext x='50%25' y='53%25' font-family='system-ui, -apple-system, sans-serif' font-size='18' font-weight='600' fill='%23a1a1aa' text-anchor='middle' dominant-baseline='middle' letter-spacing='2'%3E1998%3C/text%3E%3C/svg%3E)
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