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The first version of "Human Nature" was written and composed by Steve Porcaro of Toto. [11] He wrote the song when his first-grade daughter came home crying after a boy pushed her off the slide. He blurted out three reasons for the incident to comfort her: the boy liked her, people can be strange, and "it's human nature". [ 12 ]
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.
During this time, Steve Porcaro co-wrote and co-composed "Human Nature", which Michael Jackson recorded for his best-selling album Thriller (1982), turning the song into a smash hit. Jeff Porcaro and Steve Lukather also appeared on Thriller on multiple tracks, most notably on Beat It and the Jackson/Paul McCartney duet "The Girl Is Mine".
He also revived "Human Nature," a throwaway track co-written and demoed by Toto's Steve Porcaro for inclusion on the album.
In 1983, Bettis gained his biggest achievement with "Human Nature", a ballad penned for Michael Jackson's multi-platinum album Thriller. Originally a throwaway lyric and melody snippet composed by Toto's Steve Porcaro, the entire song was later written in its entirety by Bettis and Porcaro in two days.
Pages in category "Songs written by Steve Porcaro" The following 6 pages are in this category, out of 6 total. ... Human Nature (Michael Jackson song) The Hurt; R.
A 13-disc Toto boxed set, All In 1978-2018, came out in 2018 featuring nine new tracks, five of them unreleased tunes recorded back in the day with Porcaro’s brothers and bandmates, Jeff and ...
Miles in Paris is a live DVD by Miles Davis recorded at the Paris Jazz Festival on November 3, 1989. The album includes a cover version of the song “Human Nature”, recorded by Michael Jackson and written by Steve Porcaro of the rock band Toto.