The 70s, 80s, and 90s were a big and booming time of an evolution in music and music sound that will never be matched. The vocals and instrumentals in today’s musical industry are unable to be compared to the many sound styles that spread across those 30 years. Overall, there was one genre that shined and grew more than any other during that time that set the grounds for modern heavy music, and one man is most notorious as the founder of the heavy metal sound you hear today, inspiring not only modern metal and rock artists, but surprisingly pop singers, rappers, and the like as well. This man was Ozzy Osbourne. Through his moving, hard rock, metal, and emotionally driven songs, albums, and lyrics, his past or his successes in his solo career, Ozzy Osbourne is widely known as the father of heavy metal. Born in Birmingham, England on December 3, 1948, Osbourne had a rough time, given the family and overall opportunities he had. His mother, Lillian, was a Catholic woman who worked in a factory for most of her life. His father, John Thomas "Jack" Osbourne, worked as a toolmaker in a small electric store. Born into a blue collar, working class family, “He dabbled in vocal music in his early years while working in local steel mills and engaging in petty …show more content…
Weather it be the slow, eerie, sound of Black Sabbath, which set forth the creation of heavy metal, or the inspiring, deep harmonics of Ozzy Osbourne’s solo career, it is all still something to look at in awe, for the Grandfather of Heavy Metal’s influence will continue to shine through heavy metal, its genre’s children, and even the modern sounds and lyrics of many pop, rap, and the like, artists and songs. The crazy train of followers of Ozzy Osbourne will continue to grow farther and farther into the future, well after the death of the Prince of Darkness, and the Madman, Ozzy