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Jeff Porcaro, born Jeffrey Thomas Porcaro on April 1, 1954 in Hartford, Connecticut, was an American session drummer and a founding member of the Grammy award winning band, Toto. Porcaro was one of the most recorded drummers in history, working on hundreds of albums and thousands of sessions. While already an established studio player in the 1970s, he shot to prominence in the US as the drummer on the Steely Dan album, Katy Lied.

On August 5, 1992, Porcaro fell ill after spraying in secticide in the yard of his Hidden Hills home and died that evening at Humana Hospital-West Hills. According to the LA Times Report, The Los Angeles County Coroner's office lists the cause of death to be a heart attack from the hardening of the arteries caused by cocaine use, not from an allergic reaction to the pesticides as presumed (and stated by Toto in the band's official history) immediately after his death.