Steve Porcaro
Co-writing “Human Nature” on Michael Jackson’s Grammy-winning album Thriller, solidified his individual mark on the music industry. A sought-after session musician, Steve has worked extensively with music producer icons Quincy Jones and David Foster and many of music’s most successful artists including Don Henley, YES, Elton John, Boz Scaggs and many others.
Steve Porcaro’s touring career began with Gary Wright, in support of Wright’s hit album, The Dream Weaver and then with Boz Scaggs along with the other original members of Toto, prior to that band’s 1977 inception. Steve’s older brothers, Mike Porcaro (bassist) and Jeff Porcaro (drummer), also members of Toto were highly respected session musicians and their father Joe Porcaro is regarded was one of the world’s most influential session percussionists and educators. In 2010, Steve toured with Toto when the decision was made to reform the band in support of his brother Mike, during Mike’s lengthy battle with ALS.
Along with his work on “Human Nature”, Steve Porcaro performed as a musician on other Thriller tracks including “Beat It”, “The Girl Is Mine”, “PYT”, “The Lady in my life” and composed the song “For All Time”, which was included on the Thriller “25th Anniversary” Edition. A testament to his compositional influence, “Human Nature” has been covered and/or sampled by many artists including Miles Davis, Stevie Wonder, John Mayer, SWV, Nas, and Chris Brown. He has written or co-authored music on each of Toto’s first six albums and most recently, performed on the band’s highly acclaimed 2015 album Toto XIV, also co-writing and singing lead on “The Little Things” and “Bend” which is featured on the Japan edition of that release. After many years of success, Toto continues to play to sold-out audiences in Europe, US and Japan.
In 2016 Steve was thrilled to bring his highly anticipated solo album, Someday / Somehow to fans across the globe and is putting the finishing touches on its follow up.