Steven Maxwell Porcaro was born on September 2,1957 and is an American keyboardist, songwriter, singer, and film composer, known as one of the founding members of the rock band Toto and the last surviving Porcaro brother ; as the songwriter of "Human Nature" by Michael Jackson and songs by Toto; and as the composer of the TV series Justified.
14 Facts About Steve Porcaro
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Steve Porcaro has won three Grammys, including Record of the Year for "Rosanna" and Album of the Year for Toto IV, and three nominations.
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Steve Porcaro was a member of Chris Squire's short-lived band, The Chris Squire Experiment, in 1992.
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Just like his brothers Jeff and Mike, Steve Porcaro started out as a drummer under the tutelage of his father Joe Porcaro, before taking up piano.
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Steve Porcaro's touring career began playing with Gary Wright during his tour in 1977, supporting the latter's The Dream Weaver album.
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Steve Porcaro wrote or co-wrote at least one song on each of Toto's first six albums, with the exception of Isolation.
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Steve Porcaro's two older brothers Mike and Jeff were Toto's bassist and drummer as well as session musicians while his father Joe was a prolific session percussionist.
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Steve Porcaro left Toto in 1987 after the Fahrenheit album in order to pursue a more full-time songwriting and composing career.
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Steve Porcaro composes music for film and television, including the FX television show Justified, among others.
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Steve Porcaro returned to play with Toto at live performances since 2010, when they decided to reform the band and tour in Europe to support Mike Steve Porcaro.
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Steve Porcaro released his first ever solo album on June 10,2016.
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Steve Porcaro played a huge variety of synthesizers on Toto albums.
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Steve Porcaro was known to use Yamaha GS1, Yamaha DX1, Yamaha DX7, Yamaha CS-80, Roland Jupiter-8, Minimoog, Oberheim Xpander, Polyfusion Modular, Dynacord Add-one and Sequential Circuits Prophet-5 synthesizers among others.
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Steve Porcaro collaborated with his daughter Heather Porcaro on her debut album, The Heartstring Symphony, released in 2009.