Drummers · 1954–1992

Jeff Porcaro

American drummer (1954–1992)

Born: 1 April 1954
Hartford
Died: 5 August 1992
Hollywood
Country: United States
Active: 1971–

Biography

Jeff Porcaro was a jazz musician who played drum kit. Jeff Porcaro was born on 1 April 1954 in Hartford and died on 5 August 1992 in Hollywood. The music is usually filed under pop music and rock music.

Jeffrey Thomas Porcaro (April 1, 1954 – August 5, 1992) was an American drummer and songwriter. He is best known for being the co-founder and drummer of the rock band Toto, but he is also one of the most recorded session musicians in history, working on hundreds of albums and thousands of sessions. While already an established studio player in the 1970s, he came to prominence in the US as the drummer on the Steely Dan album Katy Lied (1975). AllMusic has characterized Porcaro as "arguably the most highly regarded studio drummer in rock from the mid-'70s to the early '90s", 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." He was posthumously inducted into the Modern Drummer Hall of Fame in 1993.

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Also plays on

Albums where Jeff Porcaro is credited as a sideman

1977	Streisand Superman — Barbra Streisand	instruments
1978	Songbird — Barbra Streisand	drums (drum set)
1979	Wet — Barbra Streisand	drums (drum set)
1982	Lite Me Up — Herbie Hancock	drums (drum set)
1985	Behind the Sun — Eric Clapton	drums (drum set), instrument arranger
1988	Till I Loved You — Barbra Streisand	drums (drum set)