Toto (band)

Current TOTO members:. Among computing circles, she is known for her song Tom's Diner being used as the reference track for the MP3 compression system. Toto IV went multi-platinum and earned several Grammy Awards including Album of the Year. Vega has a daughter, Ruby Froom. The next two albums Hydra and Turn Back had little success but Toto IV released in 1982 featured the number one hit "Africa" as well as the top ten single "Rosanna". (The UK version of Retrospective included an eight-song bonus CD as well as a DVD containing twelve songs.). Toto released their self-titled debut album in October 1978, selling two million copies based on their top ten hit "Hold the Line". In 2003, the twenty-one-song greatest hits compilation Retrospective: The Best of Suzanne Vega was released.

They did not get known first on the club circuit as nearly all bands do prior to being signed by a label. Their reputations in the studio were enough. The subject matter deals with Vega's divorce from her ex-husband, record producer Mitchell Froom. Composed entirely of seasoned studio musicians, Toto seemed to come out of nowhere. September 2001 saw the release of a new album, Songs In Red and Grey. Toto was formed in Los Angeles in 1978 (see 1978 in music) with the following members:. This album contains "Caramel", featured in the movie The Truth About Cats and Dogs, and "Dead Man Walking", a song from the soundtrack of a movie of the same name. Toto is an American pop/rock band which had their greatest commercial success in the 1980s. The music varies between a frugal, simple style and the industrial production of 99.9F°.

2003 Live in Amsterdam. The fifth album, Nine Objects of Desire, was released in 1996. 2002 Through the Looking Glass. The songs are short and the lyric style compressed. 1999 Mindfields. This gives a sunny quality to the work in contrast to the previous album. 1998 Toto XX. It consists of an eclectic mixture of folk music, dance beats and industrial music.

1995 Tambu. 1992 saw the release of the album 99.9F° ("ninety-nine point nine Fahrenheit degrees"). 1992 Kingdom of Desire. The album lacked hit single material and is best considered as a whole. 1990 Past to Present 1977-1990 (compilation). Vega's third album, Days of Open Hand (1990) signified a change in style: the music became more experimental and the lyrics expressed greater emotion. 1988 The Seventh One. The music is more strongly pop-oriented compared with her first album.

1986 Fahrenheit. "Luka" is written from the point of view of an abused child—uncommon for a pop hit. 1984 Dune - OST. Her sophomore effort, Solitude Standing (1987), contained two successful singles: "Tom's Diner" (a hit later remixed by two British dance producers under the name DNA, not to be confused with the no wave band DNA) and "Luka". 1984 Isolation. The songs are straightforward and oppose the 'bigger is better' slogan of the mid-1980s. They are not typical protest songs, but are introspective, in the manner of the singer-songwriters of the 1970s. 1982 Toto IV. Suzanne's eponymous debut album was released in 1985 and was well received by critics.

1981 Turn Back. In 1984 she received a major label record contract. 1979 Hydra. While she was an English literature major at Columbia University's Barnard College, she performed in small venues in Greenwich Village. 1978 Toto. Music, however, was her first love. Simon Philips - drums. Later she attended the New York High School of Performing Arts (the school seen in the film and musical Fame), where she studied modern dance.

Mike Porcaro - bass. At the age of nine she began to write poems; she wrote her first song at 14. Bobby Kimball - vocals. She was born in Santa Monica, California, but, at the age of one, moved with her mother and her stepfather to New York City, where she grew up in a socially problematic area. Steve Lukather - guitar and vocals. Suzanne Vega (born July 11, 1959) is an American songwriter and singer. David Paich - vocals and keyboards.

Jeff Porcaro - drums. David Hungate - bass. Steve Porcaro - keyboards. Bobby Kimball - vocals.

Steve Lukather - guitar and vocals. David Paich - vocals and keyboards.