Rudy sarzo ozzy osbourne biography

As the airplane’s door opened, eleven-year-old Rudy Sarzo undoubtedly felt the city’s warm air, laden with the usual mugginess of early September. With his parents and siblings, he had just made the short, forty-five-minute flight from Havana to Miami; escaping as so many others the brutality of Castro’s Cuba.

Rudy’s amazing journey had begun.

The family was relocated to West New York, New Jersey under the Cuban Refugee Resettlement Program.

In 1967 the family returned to Miami and Sarzo enrolled at Miami High.

Rudy sarzo ozzy osbourne biography

He fondly remembers the raucous Orange Bowl crowds, especially when the Stings played the Cavaliers in their classic rivalry games.

Even then, Rudy’s passion lay in music. He attributes his affinity with Rock to its roots in Blues, a genre based on faith and freedom.

As he honed his talent, Rudy upgraded from his first guitar, a Sears Silvertone model, to a superior Gibson. To pay for his new instrument, he worked at the Miami Beach Royal Palm Hotel’s Kosher kitch