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 Porcaro on the drums on the Toto Fahrenheit World Tour at Blaisdell Arena in Honolulu, Hawaii in 1986 | |
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| Birth name | Jeffrey Thomas Porcaro |
| Born | April 1, 1954 Hartford, Connecticut, U.S. |
| Died | August 5, 1992 (aged 38) Los Angeles, California, U.S. |
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| Years active | 1971–1992 |
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Jeffrey Thomas Porcaro (/pɔːrˈkɑːroʊ/;[1] April 1, 1954 – August 5, 1992) was an American drummer, songwriter, and record producer. He is best known for being the co-founder and drummer of the rock band Toto, but is one of the most recorded session musicians in history, working on hundreds of albums and thousands of sessions.[2][3] While already an established studio player in the 1970s, he came to prominence in the United States as the drummer on the Steely Dan album Katy Lied (1975).
AllMusic characterized Porcaro as "arguably the most highly regarded studio drummer in rock from the mid-'70s to the early '90s" and said that "it is no exaggeration to say that the sound of mainstream pop/rock drumming in the 1980s was, to a large extent, the sound of Jeff Porcaro."[3] He was posthumously inducted into the Modern Drummer Hall of Fame in 1993.[4]
- ^ "Jeff Porcaro and Joe Porcaro Drum Lesson Video" on YouTube
- ^ "Freedrumlessons.com". Freeodrumlessons.com. Archived from the original on January 9, 2016. Retrieved December 9, 2010.
- ^ a b Ruhlmann, William. "Jeff Porcaro". AllMusic. Retrieved October 24, 2011.
- ^ "Modern Drummer's Readers Poll Archive, 1979–2014". Modern Drummer. Retrieved August 10, 2015.