“People think of Ritchie as an angry, unfriendly guy, and that’s not him. I knew him when he was in a very good place”: Ronnie Romero has sung for Ritchie Blackmore and Michael Schenker and lived to tell the tale

Ronnie Romero and his band posing for a photograph.

Ronnie Romero was singing with Spanish metal band Lords Of Black when Ritchie Blackmore hand-picked him to become singer in the resurrected Rainbow. Since then, he has performed with Michael Schenker, ex-Whitesnake guitarist Adrian Vanbenberg and, as a member of Elegant Weapons, with Judas Priest’s Richie Faulkner. Now the Chilean vocalist is about to start his first ever UK headline tour, hoping to dispel his reputation as a gun for hire.