{"id":5068,"date":"2015-03-16T12:24:00","date_gmt":"2015-03-16T12:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/skylight.gr\/administrator_wordpress\/index.php\/2015\/03\/16\/totos-bassist-mike-porcaro-dies\/"},"modified":"2015-03-16T12:24:00","modified_gmt":"2015-03-16T12:24:00","slug":"totos-bassist-mike-porcaro-dies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/2015\/03\/16\/totos-bassist-mike-porcaro-dies\/","title":{"rendered":"Toto&#8217;s bassist Mike Porcaro dies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/4\/46\/Mike_Porcaro_with_bass_guitar.jpg\/220px-Mike_Porcaro_with_bass_guitar.jpg\" border=\"0\" width=\"218\" height=\"290\" \/><br \/>Mike Porcaro, the longtime bassist for Grammy Award-winning U.S. rock  band Toto, died on Sunday morning, said his brother and fellow band  member in a brief statement. He was 59.  <!--more-->  <\/p>\n<p>The band said in February  2010 that Porcaro had been diagnosed with ALS, or Amyotrophic lateral  sclerosis, and that it planned to tour to generate funds to support his  care and to raise awareness about the disease.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Our brother Mike passed away peacefully in his sleep at 12:04 a.m.  last night at home surrounded by his family. Rest in peace, my brother,&#8221;  Toto keyboardist Steve Porcaro wrote on Facebook. He provided no  additional information.<\/p>\n<p>Toto, formed in California in the late 1970s, is best known for such hits as &#8220;Hold the Line,&#8221; &#8220;Rosanna&#8221; and &#8220;Africa.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The  band won a Grammy for best album in 1982 for Toto IV, after which  Porcaro toured for that album, replacing bassist Mike Hungate. Porcaro  left the band in 2007, the band said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;My brother Mike Porcaro is  now at peace. I will miss him more than I could ever put into words,&#8221;  Toto guitarist Steve Lukather wrote on Twitter. &#8220;My deepest love to the  family,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Source: www.firstpost.com<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mike Porcaro, the longtime bassist for Grammy Award-winning U.S. rock band Toto, died on Sunday&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5068","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5068","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5068"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5068\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}