Person · Male
Jeff Porcaro
- From
- Hartford, United States
- Active
- 1954–1992
- Releases
- 1
- rock
About
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).
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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.
Member of
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Toto drums (drum set), percussion
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Radioactive additional
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Greg Mathieson Project drums (drum set)
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Also known as
Jeffrey Porcaro · Jeffrey Thomas Porcaro
Tags
- session
Identifiers
- MusicBrainz
- 1658d3b1-0c07-41cd-a358-7bbea34903b2
- ISNI
- 000000006301243X
- IPI
- 00051229015
Data from MusicBrainz, saved 11 Nov 2026. Photo from Wikimedia Commons, covers from the Cover Art Archive and Apple Music.