Born: 21 / 10 / 1957
Location: United States
Steven Lee Lukather (born October 21, 1957) is an American guitarist, singer, songwriter, arranger and record producer, best known as the sole continuous founding member of the rock band Toto. His reputation as a skilled guitarist led to a steady flow of session work beginning in the 1970s that has since established him as a prolific session musician, recording guitar tracks for more than 1,500 albums spanning a broad array of artists and genres. He has also contributed to albums and hit singles as a songwriter, arranger and producer. Notably, Lukather played guitar on Boz Scaggs' albums Down Two Then Left (1977) and Middle Man (1980), and was a prominent contributor to several studio albums by Michael Jackson, including Thriller (1982). Lukather has released nine solo albums, the latest of which, Bridges, was released in June 2023.
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His son found Lukather's mother dead on a couch "with a vodka and cigarette".
"It fucked me up. I thought, I don’t want my kids to ever find me like that. I love you mum (looks to the sky), all is forgiven. It maybe saved everybody’s life. It was the point where I went, that’s it... stubbed out the cigarette, put the beer away and never went back.”
It’s never going to float the boat of a post-Nirvana generation let alone post-Sex Pistols, which is a shame really.
Last year my band opened for Joe at some festivals, and he asked me to join them on the tour and I said, “Gee man do you think I’m the right guy?”,