Artist: Toto
Genre(s):
ROck: Alternative
Other
Pop
Rock
Rock: Pop-Rock
Soundtrack
Rock: Soft Rock
Discography:
Falling in Between
Year: 2006
Tracks: 10
Love Songs
Year: 2003
Tracks: 15
25th Anniversary: Live in Amsterdam
Year: 2003
Tracks: 19
Through the Looking Glass
Year: 2002
Tracks: 11
Caught In The Balance (CD 2)
Year: 2002
Tracks: 10
Mindfields
Year: 1999
Tracks: 13
Livefields
Year: 1999
Tracks: 19
Toto XX: 1977-1997
Year: 1998
Tracks: 13
Tambu
Year: 1995
Tracks: 12
Kingdom of Desire
Year: 1993
Tracks: 12
Absolutely Live, CD2
Year: 1993
Tracks: 5
Absolutely Live, CD1
Year: 1993
Tracks: 8
Past to Present 1977-1990
Year: 1990
Tracks: 13
The Seventh One
Year: 1988
Tracks: 11
Fahrenheit
Year: 1986
Tracks: 10
Isolation - Lenny Castro
Year: 1984
Tracks: 10
Dune
Year: 1984
Tracks: 17
Toto IV
Year: 1982
Tracks: 10
Turn Back
Year: 1981
Tracks: 8
Hydra
Year: 1979
Tracks: 8
Toto
Year: 1978
Tracks: 10
The Essential
Year:
Tracks: 14
Absolutely Live (CD 2)
Year:
Tracks: 5
Absolutely Live (CD 1)
Year:
Tracks: 8
Toto was formed in Los Angeles in 1978 by David Paich (b. June 21, 1954, Los Angeles; keyboards, vocals), Steve Lukather (b. October 21, 1957, Los Angeles; guitar, vocals), Bobby Kimball (b. Robert Toteaux, March 29, 1947, Vinton, LA; vocals), Steve Porcaro (b. September 2, 1957, Connecticut; keyboards), David Hungate (b. Texas; bass), and Jeff Porcaro (b. April 1, 1954, Hartford, CT; d. August 5, 1992, Hidden Hills, CA; drums). Paich was the son of arranger Marty Paich; the Porcaros were the sons of percussionist Joe Porcaro. The bandmembers had met in high school and at studio roger Sessions in the seventies, when they became some of the busiest session musicians in the music job. Paich, Hungate, and Jeff Porcaro wrote songs for and performed on Silk Degrees, the multi-million-selling 1976 album that combined pop up, rock, and disco elements into a slick combination which heavy influenced mainstream pop music.
Toto released its self-titled debut album in October 1978, and it hit the Top Ten, sold two-million copies, and spawned the amber Top Ten individual "Defy the Line." The gold-selling Hydra (October 1979) and Turn Back (January 1981) were less successful, just Toto IV (April 1982) was a multi-platinum Top Ten hit, featuring the first hit "Africa" and the Top Tens "Rosanna" (about Lukather's girlfriend, picture principal Rosanna Arquette) and "I Won't Hold You Back." At the 1982 Grammys, "Rosanna" south Korean won awards for Record of the Year, Best Pop Vocal Performance, and Best Instrumental Arrangement With Vocal; and Toto IV south Korean won awards for Album of the Year, Best Engineered Recording, and Best Producer (the group). In 1984, a tierce Porcaro brother, Mike (b. May 29, 1955), joined the group on sea bass, replacement Hungate. Then trail singer Kimball cease and was replaced by Dennis "Fergie" Frederiksen (b. May 15, 1951, Wyoming, MI).
Toto's fifth album, Isolation (November 1984), went gold, only was a commercial-grade letdown. Frederiksen was replaced by Joseph Williams (b. Santa Monica), the son of the conductor/composer John Williams, for Fahrenheit (August 1986). Steve Porcaro cease in 1988, prior to the release of The Seventh One. In 1990, Jean-Michel Byron replaced Williams for the new recordings on Past to Present 1977-1990, and so left, as Lukather became the group's trail singer. Jeff Porcaro died of a heart attack in 1992, simply was featured on the group's succeeding album, Realm of Desire. By this time, Toto was far more popular in Japan and Europe than at home. The group added British drummer Simon Phillips. Tambu, released in Europe in the late fall of 1995, appeared in the U.S. in June 1996. For 1999's Mindfields, Bobby Kimball returned to the lineup after a 15-year absence. The group members continued to do sitting work during the band's incumbency, contributory significantly to the reasoned of mainstream pop/rock in the seventies, '80s, and '90s.
