Jeffrey Thomas "Jeff" Porcaro (April 1, 1954 – August 5, 1992) was an American session drummer and a founding member of the Grammy Award winning band Toto. Porcaro was one of the most recorded drummers in history, working on hundreds of albums and thousands of sessions. While already an established studio player in the 1970s, he shot to prominence in the US as the drummer on the Steely Dan album Katy Lied. Allmusic has characterized him as "arguably the most highly regarded studio drummer in rock from the mid-'70s to the early '90s", further stating 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."
Biography
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Links & Information
Links
- Wikipedia article on Jeff Porcaro
- Last.fm page on Jeff Porcaro
- Discogs at discogs.com/artist/Jeff Porcaro
- MusicBrainz entry on Jeff Porcaro
Member Of
- Toto (-1992),
- Radioactive,
- Steely Dan
Personal Relationships
- Child of Joe Porcaro
- Sibling of Steve Porcaro and Mike Porcaro
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