Thirty-five years ago, Los Angeles-based rock band Toto scored their first—and only—number one Billboard hit with the cheesy-but-beloved pop anthem “Africa.” But the song regained its chart-topping ...

Weezer’s cover of Toto’s perennial favorite “Africa” undoubtedly became one of the band’s biggest successes, but Toto guitarist Steve Lukather isn’t sure the reasons behind the cover were genuine. The ...

The 1982 track was the band's only No. 1 hit — but has been widely criticized for its confusing lyrics Rob Verhorst/Redferns It was a No. 1 hit — and it’s notoriously a little odd. Toto’s Steve ...

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 ...

Steve Porcaro was Toto’s resident synth-head - the guy who, as he puts it, spent his time “noodling around with weird noises”. It should come as no surprise, then, that when MusicRadar asked him to ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Lois Alter Mark is an award-winning writer who covers travel. Apparently, I’m not the only one still listening to Toto’s “Africa” ...

It is apropos—nay, necessary—that the homestretch of 2018 gave us one last twist on Toto’s “Africa.” Despite being over 36 years old, the uplifting little ditty was surely the song of the past year ...

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 ...

Toto‘s only No. 1 hit song, “Africa,” is a well-known standard if you regularly do karaoke or, say, were a member of The Harvard Undergraduate Drummers in 2019. Generally, it’s a song we all know.

Nothing sums up 2018 like the fact that Toto’s “Africa” has become our unofficial anthem. It’s a song that’s ridiculous by definition — an Eighties ode to Africa by a bunch of L.A. rock dudes who’d ...