For the first time Kevin Churko recorded the vocals of Ozi Osbourne, saying it felt low like a studio session and like a spiritual experience.
The mousse jaw, sansk. Born manufacturer, who was tapped to co-produce the 2007 album “Black Rain” of the English Heavy Metal Legend, remember that they are strange.
“I could not just believe it. Here Ozi was Osbourne – ‘bark on the moon’ man, ‘Crazy train’ man – singing in front of me. It was very real to come true,” says Churko.
“The funniest thing was that because he is singing and giving everything he is, I am very close to him that I think he is a spray of saliva on his S and T, as he is singing, and my face is getting wet. And we stop and I go, ‘man, do I leave it?”
Osbourne died on Tuesday at the age of 76.
A huge man in Rock History, Osborne, first gained fame as Black Sabbath’s frontman in the 1970s, which helped to lead a heavy metal with his persecuted tone, dramatic nature and derogatory antics. She later started a successful single career with hits including “Crazy Train” and in the 2000s, the hit MTV reality series reached a new generation of fans through the “The Osbornness”.
Churko remembered Osbourne as a born artist, who lived completely every moment.
“He was a true entertainer. He preferred to recite jokes, he loved to hang out with boys. I can only imagine what was in those early years in Black Sabbath, just a group of friends who had fun,” Churco, “Churco, who also co-form the 2010 album” Scream “of Osborn.
Churko first joined Osborne’s team as an engineer on the 2005 album “Under Cover” and gradually earned the singer and the trust of his camp, he was promoted as co-producer and co-writer on the latter record.
While the Osbourne was notorious for his decades-levy conflicts with drugs and alcohol misuse-often fuel on his unexpected behavior on on-off-stage-off stage-Saying-says the singer started cooperating simultaneously in the mid-2000s.
Churko says, “He had sown his wild oats by that time, but I don’t think he ever lost that difficult childhood spirit.”
He recalls that Osborne visited Churco’s home studio in Las Vegas, which records some additional vocal for “Black Rain”. After singing a few lines, Osbourne came out of the room.
“About 15 minutes later, I could just hear her with laughter and suddenly there is a party in another room. I put my head out and he was there, sitting on the couch with my son Kane and his friend, and he was watching the ‘Superbad’,” Chackles Churko.
“It was such a wonderful, happy moment among many of them. We had almost never a bad time.”
“Black Rain” won the Churco The Juno Award for recording engineer in 2008.
Turning back, Churko says that he was grateful to being part of Osbourne’s creative revival during a more ground chapter of his life.
“I really got the privilege of living there at that time. It is always good to be a part of madness, but it is also good to be a part of peace,” they say.
“At that level in his life, he was rotating the crazies below.”
Osbourne’s reality TV fame was fresh even when the two started working together for the first time, and Churco says that the singer was relieved from returning to the studio, away from cameras.
“He was just happy that it was done,” says Churko.
“No one likes anyone in his house around the whole day, who is trying to get some crazy moments in the film. He was ready to go back to music, something more private and meaningful.”
Nevertheless, Churko believes that “osborns” was not meaningless-it helped reveal a more human side of the so-called prince.
“Music will always inherit-it will underline everything. But I also feel that when they had ‘osborns’, they made the metal human in a way. Earlier, he was the man who was away from the head of the bats and was in the band in a devil-war. That is good, who is taking care of his family and he wants him to say. “
“It was good because rock and metal get a certain type of slant, but in fact, we are just people. He was just a person who was with his issues, just trying to put one leg in front of the other like the rest of us. ,
The Canadian music community paid tribute to social media, among them Montreal band Voivod, who opened for Osbourne tour in 2003, and “unhappy” guitarist Leona Boyd, who said that she lived on the road with her in Beverly Hills and remembered while participating in her “crazy parts”. Rush Frontman Geddi Lee was remembered that the first was blown by Sabbath album.
Lee said in a statement posted on Tuesday, “Ozi and her bandmats were at the forefront of that style, the brand of metal, and Ozi was a deeply loved, one of a compassionate artist,” Lee said in a statement posted on Tuesday.
Randy Bachman said that he was “sending peace to his friends and family.”
“One of the original architects of heavy metal has gone into heaven,” Bachman has written on X.
“He and Sharon will be known as the fantastic power couple of the industry forever.”
This report of Canadian Press was first published on 23 July 2025.
Alex Nino Gikiu, Canadian Press