Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Bobby Kimball’s signature. Robert Troy Kimball (born March 29, 1947) is an American retired singer and songwriter best known as longtime frontman of the rock band Toto from 1977 to 1984 and again from 1998 to 2008. Kimball has also performed as a solo artist and session singer. [1]
Toto is an American rock band from Los Angeles, California. Formed in 1977, the group's original lineup included lead vocalist Bobby Kimball, guitarist and vocalist Steve Lukather, keyboardist and vocalist David Paich, bassist David Hungate, keyboardist Steve Porcaro and drummer Jeff Porcaro.
After the "Toto XX" tour, Bobby Kimball rejoined the band as lead singer after 14 years. The band released Mindfields in early 1999 and embarked on the "Reunion" tour, touring worldwide and returning to the United States for the first time in six years.
"Hold the Line" is a song included by American rock band Toto on its 1978 eponymous debut studio album. It was written by the band's keyboardist David Paich, and lead vocals were performed by Bobby Kimball. "Hold the Line" was released by Columbia Records as the lead single from the Toto album in September 1978, also being Toto's debut single.
While Toto IV was a massive, Grammy winning success, Toto elected not to mount a U.S. tour behind the album, a decision Steve Lukather has since regretted as a missed opportunity to become a "US-arena rock band." [9] Part of the reluctance to tour was the ongoing personal and legal drug-related problems of lead vocalist Bobby Kimball.
"Rosanna" is a song written by David Paich and performed by the American rock band Toto, the opening track and the first single from their 1982 album Toto IV. This song won the Grammy Award for Record of the Year at the 1983 ceremony .
The Toto member added, "I don’t want to get into it, but — peace and love. It was good for them, it was good for us." Related: 'Africa' by Toto Will Play 'for All Eternity' in the Namib Desert ...
The song was written by vocalist Bobby Kimball and keyboardist David Paich and is performed in the key of A-flat major. [3] Kimball said in an interview that he "wrote it in the '70s and originally called it "'You Got Me'". [4] This has been substantiated by his producer and archivist John Zaika, and it was originally written in 1977.