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Jeff Porcaro

1954 - 1992

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Jeffrey Thomas Porcaro (April 1, 1954 – August 5, 1992) was an American drummer. He is best known for being the co-founder and drummer of the rock band Toto, but 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 United States as the drummer on the Steely Dan album Katy Lied (1975). AllMusic characterized Porcaro as "arguably the most highly regarded studio drummer in rock from the mid-'70s to the early '90s" and said 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. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Jeff Porcaro is the 690th most popular musician (down from 582nd in 2019), the 3,846th most popular biography from United States (down from 2,991st in 2019) and the 212th most popular American Musician.

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Among musicians, Jeff Porcaro ranks 690 out of 3,175. Before him are Stephen Kovacevich, Lindsey Buckingham, Captain Beefheart, Kenny Loggins, Jadranka Stojaković, and Paul Tortelier. After him are Eric Woolfson, Rudolf Barshai, Heinrich Wilhelm Ernst, Chaka Khan, Angélique Kidjo, and Jelly Roll Morton.

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Among people born in 1954, Jeff Porcaro ranks 167. Before him are Nguyễn Xuân Phúc, Archduchess Marie Astrid of Austria, Gerd Faltings, Trevor Berbick, Simonetta Stefanelli, and Ecaterina Oancia. After him are Giancarlo Antognoni, Lee Chang-dong, Anna Galiena, Zhong Shanshan, Ilan Pappé, and Brigitte Lin. Among people deceased in 1992, Jeff Porcaro ranks 114. Before him are Jim Garrison, Arthur Cronquist, František Tomášek, Franco Cristaldi, Lenny Montana, and Gaston Reiff. After him are Lusine Zakaryan, Earle Meadows, László Benedek, Yang Kyoungjong, Aleksandar Tirnanić, and Giovanni Colombo.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Jeff Porcaro ranks 3,846 out of 20,380. Before him are Arielle Dombasle (1953), M. Emmet Walsh (1935), Lenny Montana (1926), Margaret Fuller (1810), Paul Strand (1890), and Ellen Pompeo (1969). After him are John Milius (1944), William P. Clark Jr. (1931), Daniel Inouye (1924), Sheryl Crow (1962), Akon (1973), and Leon Panetta (1938).

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Among MUSICIANS In United States

Among musicians born in United States, Jeff Porcaro ranks 212. Before him are Tom Fogerty (1941), Eric Singer (1958), Stephen Kovacevich (1940), Lindsey Buckingham (1949), Captain Beefheart (1941), and Kenny Loggins (1948). After him are Chaka Khan (1953), Jelly Roll Morton (1890), Suzanne Vega (1959), Rufus Wainwright (1973), Screamin' Jay Hawkins (1929), and Jeff Buckley (1966).

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