David Paich had never been to Africa when he wrote "Africa." Instead, Paich, keyboardist and main songwriter of Toto, based "Africa" on whatever impressions of the continent he'd gotten from UNICEF ...

When Weezer – best known for their straight-ahead rock and power-pop sound – cut Toto’s “Africa” in 2018, a lot of people took it as a joke, until they really listened to how well the band performed ...

Toto is on a 53-date North American tour, sharing the bill for many of the dates with Journey, another remarkably successful classic-rock band founded in the 1970s. Following the tour’s sold-out ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When it comes to timeless soft rock anthems, few songs have endured quite like "Africa" by Toto. More than four decades after its ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Hugh McIntyre covers music, with a focus on the global charts. MILAN, ITALY - MARCH 10: Steve Lukather (L) and Joseph Williams (R) ...

A Namibian artist named Max Siedentopf has assembled a sound installation in the Namib Desert of Africa to play the classic 1982 hit through a solar powered MP3 player and six speakers Everyone likes ...

It was a No. 1 hit — and it’s notoriously a little odd. Toto’s Steve Lukather has some mixed feelings about the band’s 1982 song, “Africa.” Lukather, 67, opened about the creation of the song and its ...

Toto scored four Top 10 hits, but "Africa" remains the band's lone chart-topper, a concert sing-along staple and their signature song. "I'm sure [Weezer frontman] Rivers [Cuomo] was like, This is a ...

Everybody likes “Africa” by Toto. It’s one of those ubiquitous songs that you catch on the radio every now and then - almost as if the DJ turns to you as if to say “hurry boy, it’s waiting there for ...

Somewhere in the world right now a dancefloor is being flooded with people because "Africa" by Toto just came on. "Dun, dun, dun, dun, dun, dun, dun." When it comes to hyping up a crowd, the song's ...

Namibia-born artist Max Siedentopf's desert art installation plays the '80s anthem on loop somewhere in the desert. Max Siedentopf, Toto Forever (2019), a installation playing Toto's hit 1982 song ...