Steve Porcaro is best known for being a founding member of Toto

His name is synonymous with multiplatinum pop, having topped the charts with Michael Jackson, Don Henley, Elton John, Boz Scaggs, Barbra Streisand, and Toto, the band he helped found. Along the way he won Grammy awards for “Album of the Year”, “Producer of the Year”, and “Record of the Year”, and he solidified his reputation as a top-call keyboardist, songwriter, sound designer, and producer. But there’s more to Steve Porcaro than record sales, platinum plaques, and radio airplay. Unbeknownst to many of his pop/rock admirers, Steve has built a solid musical foundation in film scoring. For over a decade, he studied composition with Allyn Ferguson, and has collaborated with James Newton Howard, including work spanning The Fugitive to King Kong. Along the way, Steve has scored a variety of major motion pictures and hit television shows, and has steadily built his reputation as a world-class composer. While he still gets called regularly for pop studio and stage projects, Steve’s passion and primary focus is music for film having most recently scored the FX series, “Justified”

Selected Credits

FEATURE FILMS

• A Murder Of Crows ( Cuba Gooding Jr., Tom Berringer, and Eric Stoltz),
  dir. Rowdy Harrington, Phoenician Films
• Metro ( Eddie Murphy), dir. Thomas Carter, Touchstone Pictures
• My First Mister ( Albert Brooks, LeeLee Sobieski), dir. Christine Lahti
  Paramount Pictures
• Head Over Heels ( Freddie Prinze Jr, Monica Potter), dir. Mark Waters,
  Universal Pictures
• Skulls *shared credit ( Joshua Jackson, Paul Walker, Leslie Bibb), dir. Rob Cohen, Universal Pictures
• Cougar Club (Carrie Fisher, Faye Dunaway)
• Dune (w/ Toto) dir. David Lynch
• Emmett’s Mark (Scott Wolf, Tim Roth, Gabriel Byrne) dir. Keith Snyder, USA
• Wayward Son ( Harry Connick Jr.), dir. Randall Harris, Avenue
  Pictures

TELEVISON

• Justified (Series) FX
• Unanswered Prayers Lifetime
• The 19th Wife Lifetime
• Raines (Series) NBC
• Footbal Wives (Pilot) Touchstone
• Montana Sky Lifetime
• Carolina Moon Lifetime
• A Season On The Brink (Movie of the Week) (Brian Dennehy). dir. Robert Mandel, ESPN
• Century City (Pilot)
• Enterprise (Series)
• Gideon’s Crossing (Series) ABC
• Hope ( Christine Lahti), dir. Goldie Hawn, TNT original feature film
• North Shore (Series) FOX
• The American Experience: John And Abigail Adams (Mini Series) PBS
• The Sentinel (Series) UPN

COMPOSING, MISC.

• From Dusk Till Dawn 2: Texas Blood Money (composer: additional music; orchestrator)
• Primal Fear (musician, additional music)
• The Medallion (composer: additional music; orchestrator)
• The Skulls (composer: additional music)

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