Toto

On 7 January 1977, Toto's founding line-up met for the first time at Davlen Studios in North Hollywood, California, to begin recording demos that would become the band's first album.

Co-founders David Paich and Jeff Porcaro, alongside Steve Lukather, Bobby Kimball, Steve Porcaro and David Hungate, launched a career that, almost half a century later, remains celebrated, cherished and relevant.

Every year the audience grows younger, as new generations continue to discover this timeless repertoire. The band's eponymous debut album was released on Columbia Records in October 1978.

“Hydra” followed in 1979, then “Turn Back” in 1981, before the huge success of “Toto IV”, released in 1982. That album won six Grammy Awards, including Record of the Year for “Rosanna”, Album of the Year and Producer of the Year.

“Isolation” (1984), “Fahrenheit” (1986), “The Seventh One” (1988), “Kingdom of Desire” (1992), “Tambu” (1995) and “Mindfields” (1999) followed.

The band continued to release new material periodically, including “Through The Looking Glass” (2002), “Falling In Between” (2006), “Toto XIV” (2015) and “Old Is New” (2018). In 1984, the soundtrack to David Lynch's film Dune, composed by the band, was also released.

Over five decades, Toto's global audience has never stopped growing. The shift of listeners to streaming has only increased the band's popularity, and their cumulative number of streams now exceeds nine billion across all digital platforms.

Toto's biggest hit, “Africa”, alone passed the TWO BILLION mark on Spotify, while “Hold The Line” now surpasses the ONE BILLION mark. This considerable volume concerns not only the three most popular songs but extends to the band's entire catalogue.