Bring the Ultimate Toto Tribute Experience to Your Event

Toto is one of the most respected and commercially successful soft-rock and session-rock bands in history. With more than 40 million records sold worldwide, six Grammy Awards (the 1982 Grammys were a Toto sweep, including Album of the Year for “Toto IV,” Producer of the Year, and Record of the Year for “Rosanna”), 12-plus million copies of “Toto IV” sold worldwide, and a catalog that defined the 1970s and 1980s LA recording scene, Toto built an extraordinary body of work. The members of Toto were the kings of the LA recording scene in the 70’s and 80’s, playing on Michael Jackson’s “Thriller” (David Paich and Steve Porcaro co-wrote “Human Nature”), Boz Scaggs’s “Silk Degrees,” and countless other defining records of that era. From “Hold the Line,” “Rosanna,” “Africa,” “I Won’t Hold You Back,” “I’ll Be Over You,” “Pamela,” “Stop Loving You,” “Lovers in the Night,” and the band’s signature instrumental “Child’s Anthem,” the catalog connects with virtually every demographic that responds to classic rock, soft rock, yacht rock, and session-rock musicianship, from longtime Toto fans through the Gen-Z audiences who discovered the band through “Africa” streaming, the Weezer cover, and the song’s ongoing TikTok and meme cultural revival.

Child’s Anthem goes beyond a standard tribute approach in three meaningful ways that virtually no other Toto tribute can match. First, the frontman is genuinely uncommon. Lead vocalist Keith Landry actually toured and sang with Toto in their prime in the 1980s on the Hydra tour. That makes Keith one of the few tribute frontmen anywhere who has personally performed with the original artist on the original tour cycle (he is in the same elite “actual original band member in the tribute” tier as Billy “Thunder” Mason in The Ultimate McGraw, Kent Goodson and Vaughan Reed in Ron Crites, John Troy in Mad Dogs & The Englishman, and Joey Jimenez in Tejano Queen Forever). Second, the band is built from Nashville’s finest studio musicians, whose collective recording and touring credits include Kenny Loggins, Reba McEntire, Toto themselves, Blake Shelton, Olivia Newton-John, Christopher Cross, Jim Messina, and Amy Grant. As bassist Duncan Mullins explains, “We were always jamming on Toto songs in-between takes in the studio. Eventually we realized we ought to give everyone an opportunity to enjoy this music as much as we do. That’s why Child’s Anthem was formed.” These are Nashville session pros doing the band they love. Third, the seven-piece full-band production brings the entire range of Toto’s music to life: sweeping ballads (“I Won’t Hold You Back,” “I’ll Be Over You”), R&B (“Georgy Porgy,” “Pamela”), screaming rock (“Hold the Line,” “Stop Loving You”), and the iconic “Africa,” “Rosanna,” and “Child’s Anthem.”

The timing matters as well. The iconic Bobby Kimball-era lineup of Toto that recorded “Africa,” “Rosanna,” and “Toto IV” is permanently dissolved. Drummer and founding member Jeff Porcaro passed away in 1992, bassist Mike Porcaro passed in 2015, vocalist Bobby Kimball left the band in 2008, and keyboardist David Paich largely retired from touring in 2019 due to health. Toto continues to tour with new lineups built around guitarist Steve Lukather (the only remaining original member of the 1978 founding lineup), but the classic Hydra/Toto IV-era band that audiences associate with the iconic recordings will never tour again. Child’s Anthem is now one of the few credentialed ways to experience that classic era live, with a frontman who actually was there for the Hydra tour and a band of Nashville session pros doing the catalog with the technical authenticity Toto themselves are famous for. For event organizers, that means less guesswork: this is a vetted, family-friendly, multi-generational headliner with PAC, theater, and casino credentialing across the Maltz Jupiter Theatre (FL), The Villages Entertainment (FL), Belfry Music Theatre, and 3rd & Lindsley (Nashville), plus a 2-plus-million-view YouTube footprint.