Ozzy Osbourne BiographyJohn Michael "Ozzy" Osbourne (born December 3, 1948) is an English singer-songwriter, whose career has spanned five decades. Osbourne rose to prominence as lead vocalist of pioneering British heavy metal band Black Sabbath, and eventually achieved a multi-platinum solo career between the early 1980s and mid 1990s which revolutionized the heavy metal
genre. As a result he is known as the "Godfather of Heavy Metal"[2] and because of some of his material, the "Prince of Darkness." In the early 2000s, his career as a celebrity hit a new zenith when he became a star in his own reality show, The Osbournes, alongside wife/manager Sharon and two of their three children, Kelly and Jack.