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"Africa" is a song by American rock band Toto, the tenth and final track on their fourth studio album Toto IV (1982). It was the second single from the album released in Europe in June 1982 and the third in the United States in October 1982 through Columbia Records .
Hop online and you’ll find an “Africa” bot randomly tweeting the song’s lyrics and www.ibless.therains.downin.africa, a site that broadcasts the “Africa” music video on a constant loop.
Weezer's take on "Africa" appears on the band's 2019 Teal Album, a collection of covers that also features versions of TLC's "No Scrubs" and A-ha's "Take on Me," among other well-known songs.
The album version of the song features rapper/reggae artist Culture. The song is inspired by the worldwide hit "Africa" by Toto and samples music and covers lyrics from the chorus from the original version, providing new lyrics in place of the original's verses.
Perpetuum Jazzile is a Slovenian musical group best known for an a cappella version of Toto rock band's song Africa. The May 2009 video showing a live performance of this version has received close to 22 million views on YouTube. [1]
"Stranger in Town" is a hit song by American rock band Toto from their 1984 album Isolation. It was the first single released from that album, reaching the top 30 on the Billboard Hot 100 in December 1984. [3] The song was the band's highest-ever charting Mainstream Rock track, eventually peaking at number 7.
Toto’s high-gloss only-in-L.A. aesthetic didn’t age well into the ’90s and early 2000s, when rock went grungy then garage-y; even in Toto’s heyday, critics dismissed the band as hot ...
The song was written by David Paich, who has said that the song is based on numerous girls he had known. As a joke, the band members initially played along with the common assumption that the song was based on Rosanna Arquette, who was dating Toto keyboard player Steve Porcaro at the time. Arquette herself played along with the joke, commenting ...