A look at the deathless banger 'Africa' by Toto and how such a cringey song lyrically can become so beloved decades after its ...
How does Weezer's Rivers Cuomo feel about "Africa" by Toto? Over six years after the "Island in the Sun" band released a cover of "Africa" in response to an internet campaign and subsequently earned ...
More than 40 years after topping the Billboard Hot 100, Toto‘s “Africa” is still reaching new milestones: The 1983 No. 1 hit just surpassed 1 billion views on YouTube. “Africa” — Toto’s lone Hot 100 ...
Toto had a handful of hits in the 1970s and 1980s but was never considered among the top echelon of arena rock acts of that era along the lines of Journey, Styx and Foreigner. Yet two factors have ...
It's an earworm for the ages. An artist from Namibia has installed a group of speakers and an MP3 player, to play "Africa" by Toto, in the song's namesake, Africa -- specifically in the Namib Desert.
In 2018, in response to months of campaigning by an Ohio teenager named Mary, Weezer famously covered Toto’s 1983 chart-topping hit “Africa,” yielding a fun music video with Weird Al Yankovic and ...
The Aspen Music School students arrived early at the Zen Garden, a peaceful plot on the campus of the Aspen Ideas Festival. They had never performed with a rapper before, so there was a nervous ...
For Toto guitarist, songwriter, and sometimes singer Steve Lukather, the ongoing popularity of one of the band’s biggest hits is perplexing. “I’m baffled,” Lukather said. “This was a song that we ...