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Jeff Porcaro

Hartford, United States

Jeff Porcaro is credited on 4,418 releases across 908 albums tracked on Gatefold, active 1972–2026 — the collector-built map of who actually made the music.

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4,418

Pressings credited

908

Albums

6

Decades active

1,979

In collections

Biography

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). 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.

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Credited work

4,418 releases · 908 albums · active 1972–2026

  • Performance · 7,445
  • Other credits · 306
  • Production · 63
  • Engineering · 1

Studios: Sunset Sound · Cherokee Studios · ABC Recording Studios · Studio 55, Los Angeles

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