Jeff Porcaro
American drummer (1954–1992) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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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).
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Birth name | Jeffrey Thomas Porcaro |
Born | (1954-04-01)April 1, 1954 Hartford, Connecticut, U.S. |
Died | August 5, 1992(1992-08-05) (aged 38) Los Angeles, California, U.S. |
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Years active | 1971–1992 |
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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]