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Mike Porcaro is the second of the three Porcaro brothers. The three brothers were taught drums by their father at his drum shop every weekend. Jeff said that he himself wasn't the best drummer, adding that Mike was a better player than him before he switched to bass, while Steve later took up piano before they moved to California.
Together, they had three sons: Christopher Joseph (1984), Miles Edwin Crawford (1986–2017) and Nico Hendrix (1991). [citation needed] Porcaro died at Humana Hospital-West Hills on the evening of August 5, 1992, at the age of 38 after falling ill while spraying insecticide in the yard of his Hidden Hills home. Initially his death was wrongly ...
Steven Maxwell Porcaro (born September 2, 1957) is an American keyboardist, songwriter, singer, and film composer, known as one of the founding members of the rock band Toto [1] and the last surviving Porcaro brother (after the deaths of Jeff in 1992 and Mike in 2015); as the songwriter of "Human Nature" by Michael Jackson and songs by Toto; and as the composer of the TV series Justified.
Toto drummer and songwriter Jeff Porcaro died in 1992 from a heart attack resulting from coronary disease associated with cocaine use, though Lukather disputed the details surrounding his bandmate ...
Porcaro, who produced Toto’s “Hash Pipe” single, reveals that he actually at first had an idea to cover Weezer’s “Beverly Hills” as a “very stereotypical Toto kind of thing, with ...
Byron remained for the promotional tour for the album Past to Present 1977–1990, but did not get on with the rest of the band and left shortly thereafter, with no new frontman brought in to take his place. [5] The band's constant drummer Jeff Porcaro died of a heart attack on August 5, 1992. [6]
Everybody else did at some point, probably." Steve Lukather, 67, chimes in: "Rosanna is the Toto track. We knew we had something there, and when it came out and was a hit, it was like, phew."
The Porcaro family is, on the paternal side, originally from San Luca, an Aspromonte village in the province of Reggio Calabria. Joe Porcaro, a well-known jazz drummer and percussionist, born in Hartford, Connecticut to Mike, an Italian immigrant from San Luca, Calabria, and a mother from Caserta, Campania. The couple had moved to the US in the ...