In 1998 they released Toto XX with the single "Goin' Home". He was 59 years old when he died. In 1988 Toto released their next album The Seventh One, featuring Jon Anderson of Yes on backup vocals on the single "Stop Loving You". Steve . Steve Lukather stated that the tour would be the band's last for "a while", and that tensions within the band and its management had increased due to legal troubles, such as an ongoing lawsuit with the widow of founding member and drummer Jeff Porcaro, Susan Porcaro-Goings[55] (current wife of Rick Goings). On January 2, 2019, Toto kicked off their 2019 leg of the 40 Trips Around The Sun tour in Byron Bay at the Falls Festival. All told, members Jeff Porcaro, Steve Porcaro, David Paitch, Steve Lukather, and the rest played on thousands of well-known recordings, before they decided to join forces and make their own music. 2. In addition to "Africa" and "Rosanna", Toto IV continued its successful run with the release of another single, "Make Believe". The band released Mindfields in early 1999 and embarked on the "Reunion" tour, touring worldwide and returning to the United States for the first time in six years. [16][17] The next lineup of Toto included Joseph Williams, Steve Lukather, David Paich, Steve Porcaro, Shem von Schroeck, Shannon Forrest, Lenny Castro and Warren Ham. Two singles were released: "Could You Be Loved", a Bob Marley cover, and "While My Guitar Gently Weeps", a Beatles cover. [23][24] Facing the prospect of a tour without Jeff, Toto almost broke up. Toto released a two-CD set Falling in Between Live on Eagle Records to commemorate the tour. 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After he was forced out of the band, Toto's fortunes took a steep downturn. Like the Beatles, Kiss, or the Spice Girls, Toto split lead vocals duties among its members. August 6, 1992. In 2008, Toto suspected that its label, Sony, owed unpaid royalties for digital downloads. They brought in bassist and fellow session veteran David Hungate, having played with him in the backing band for Scaggs. In 2002, in celebration of Toto's 25th anniversary, the band released Through the Looking Glass, a covers album that paid tribute to the band's musical influences, such as Bob Marley, Steely Dan, The Beatles, and Elton John. The 2007 leg featured Leland Sklar filling in on bass for Mike Porcaro due to an (at the time) undisclosed illness. A third Porcaro brother, Mike Porcaro, who had performed cello on a track from Toto IV, replaced Hungate on bass, while lead singer Bobby Kimball spent the early part of 1983 facing prosecution for drug-related charges. Toto went on a small promotional tour with former members Bobby Kimball, Steve Porcaro and Joseph Williams. "Africa" topped the Billboard Hot 100, while "Rosanna" reached number 2, helping Toto become one of the best-selling music groups of their era. [49][50][51] Dave Santos took over bass from Dave Hungate for the final three dates of the tour and Shannon Forrest continued to perform as the band's drummer. [21] In April, mirroring the situation that had happened with Kimball seven years previously, former singer Joseph Williams was arrested on drug-related charges.[22]. An auditor confirmed that notion, and in 2010, the band sued Sony, seeking more than $600,000 in damages. Toto is an American rock band from Los Angeles, California. Hungate rejoined Toto as a touring musician and later a band member. The band garnered international acclaim and was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best New Artist. In the early 1980s, band members told the press that the band was named after Toto the dog from The Wizard of Oz. That's a long time, and with it come changesband members arrive, band members leave, and people formerly or currently associated with the band fall prey to the predatory nature of time. Totos popularity peaked in 1982 when their singles Africa and Rosanna became massive hits all over the globe. After the detrimental sales of Turn Back, the band was under a great deal of pressure from the record company to produce a new hit record, akin to their first. Toto briefly ruled rock and its sunshine days were just as brief. Those are his powerful pipes on "Hold the Line" and "Rosanna," for example. From 1991 on, Steve Lukather would handle a majority of the vocals (until Bobby Kimball's return in 1998), but some older songs originally sung by Kimball, Fergie Frederiksen, and Joseph Williams were put in the set list and sung by new backup singers Fred White (who was replaced by John James in 1992), Jackie McGee (who had joined for the 1990 tour and was replaced by Donna McDaniel in 1992), and Jenny Douglas-McRae (who had also come aboard in 1990). According to popular myth, at the first recording sessions, in order to distinguish their own demo tapes from other bands' in the studio, Jeff Porcaro wrote the word "Toto" on them. Musical artist. [11] Nearly 30 years later, Steve Lukather confessed that, despite the song's popularity, he hated "99" and that it's one of his least favorite Toto songs, which is why it was rarely performed after Hydra's tour. Paich was still a member of Toto, however, as he continued to record and produce on all of Toto's releases. 3. Although the album Hydra failed to achieve the commercial success of Toto's first release, it still went gold. [10] "We're the only band in history to turn down the cover of Rolling Stone," Steve Lukather later told the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. [29] However, the record gave the band material to promote their "25th Anniversary Tour", which started in 2002 and concluded in 2003. A departure from Toto's sound of the late 1970s and 1980s, Tambu was a very organic release and featured the single "I Will Remember", which received moderate radio play. "Africa" topped the charts in February 1983 and was a constant presence on radios around the world, but it was "Rosanna" that earned the band multiple Grammy nominations. But when you mix a tricky and prickly brother dynamic with band politics, it's remarkable anything gets done and recording sessions don't descend into a knock-down, drag-out wrestling match. Drummer Jeff Porcaro co-founded Toto, and quickly asked his brother, keyboardist Steve Porcaro, to join in. After the "Toto XX" tour, Bobby Kimball rejoined the band as lead singer after 14 years. The three siblings were the sons of jazz percussionist Joe Porcaro. Guitarist Steve Lukather and long-time vocalist Joseph Williams will be joined by new members. A veteran singer with the likes of rock bands like Trillion, Survivor, and La Roux, he certainly had the chops and experience to roll with Toto, but it just didn't work outhe left the band after Isolation, replaced by singer Joseph Williams. On June 5, 2008 after a period of rumors and some allusions, Lukather posted a message on his official website, stating, "The fact is yes I have left Toto. After Jeff Porcaro's death in 1992, he was replaced by Simon Phillips. Like the Beatles, Kiss, or the Spice Girls, Toto split lead vocals duties among its members. It's tough to replace the lead singer of an established bandSammy Hagar of Van Halen and Brian Johnson ofAC/DC are about the only ones who succeededand it was a tall order for Kimball's immediate successor, Dennis "Fergie" Frederiksen. His younger brother Mike was a successful bassist and was a member of the band Toto. Jeff Porcaro, drummer for the rock band Toto, died of hardening of the arteries caused by cocaine use--not from an allergic reaction to a pesticide as originally reported, the Los Angeles County . [14] The group continued touring over the next few years, before Phillips left in January 2014 during the recording of Toto XIV and was replaced by Keith Carlock. Performers including Don Henley, Eddie Van Halen, Donald Fagen, Walter Becker, Boz Scaggs, James Newton Howard, Michael McDonald, David Crosby and special guest George Harrison performed various Toto songs along with the four remaining Toto members. The band's 1982 album Toto IV spawned two of the most popular radio hits of all time in "Rosanna" and "Africa," which went to #2 and #1 on the Billboard Hot 100, respectively, and in 1983 the Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences bestowed multipleGrammy Awards on the very popular band and its very popular music, including Album of the Year, Producer of the Year, and Record of the Year (for "Rosanna"). Robert Troy Kimball (born March 29, 1947) is an American singer and songwriter best known as the original and longtime frontman of the rock band Toto from 1977 to 1984 and again from 1998 to 2008. AP News reports he had been taken ill at his home while spraying pesticide on his property, passing away later that day. As the main motivation for his decision, Lukather said: When Dave [Paich] retired that was REAL hard for me 'cause we started the band together. Jeff Porcaro died in an accident on August 5, 1992, at the age of 38 while working in his garden. That's like two crystals on a f***ing matchstick. Toto's musical style blends together funk, hard rock, jazz, pop, progressive rock, R&B, soul, R&B, and classic rock. In 1982, the rock band Chicago brought in David Foster to produce their album Chicago 16. And so, in 1983, right after its peak of commercial success, the members of Toto that weren't Bobby Kimball elected to fire Bobby Kimball, right around the same time that Kimball stood trial for a 1981 incident in which he allegedly sold four ounces of cocaine to an undercover cop. Tests found no trace of pesticide in Porcaro's system, but they did reveal traces of cocaine, along withbenzoylecgonine, a cocaine byproduct. In 1993 they released a live album called Absolutely Live. [4] He was replaced by Dennis "Fergie" Frederiksen (who performed on Isolation before), and later Jean-Michel Byron. "We were not the only band that did blow. David Paich made another special appearance at the final show in Philadelphia to again perform "Africa" and "Home of the Brave". With the Triple Platinum-certified Toto IV, the band delivered one of the most commercially successful records of the year. Toto played at the Montreux Jazz Festival in 1991 and the band recorded Kingdom of Desire, which was released on Columbia Records in most parts of the world and on Clive Davis' label Relativity Records in the United States. Tickets go on sale on Tuesday. [7] The group continued as a four-piece throughout much of the 1990s, before reuniting with Kimball, Williams and Steve Porcaro in 1998 for a tour in promotion of the 20th anniversary compilation Toto XX: 19771997. His reputation as a skilled guitarist led to a steady flow of session work beginning in the 1970s that has since established . Toto have reformed for a world tour, but only guitarist Steve Lukather and vocalist Joseph Williams are returning to the fold. [16] However, Kimball was fired from the band in 1984 due to difficulty recording vocals and numerous missed sessions. Hungate was replaced on bass by Mike Porcaro, while Kimball was replaced by a number of different short-term vocalists, the longest serving of which was Joseph Williams.