Bobby Kimball

Robert " Bobby" Troy Kimball ( born March 29, 1947 in Vinton, Calcasieu Parish, Louisiana) is a singer and was a singer and founding member of the U.S. rock band Toto. He has won six Grammy Awards.

Biography

1984 Kimball got out on the musical highlight of the band Toto, after he had given four Toto albums his distinctive voice. In Germany Directly afterwards he founded the Far Corporation project along with Steve Lukather, Dieter Pete Riding, David Paich, Pit Loew, Harry Beierl, Mel Collins, Curt Cress, Simon Phillips et al. Below he sang for many solo artists, such as Al Jarreau, Frank Farian, Barbra Streisand, Richard Marx and Diana Ross.

Bobby Kimball lived for five years in Germany, mostly in and around Frankfurt, the hometown of his grandfather. Here he worked with the Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra together, from whose collaboration sprang from a plate with newly arranged Toto songs.

Published in 1996, Kimball his first solo album Rise Up and returned only in 1999 after 15 years of absence and overcoming his cocaine addiction to Toto's Toto XX album in 1998 as part of a promotional tour and the recording of Mindfields back. 2002 followed the Toto album Through The Looking Glass and his second solo album, All I Ever Needed, which he recorded with numerous guest musicians in San Francisco.

To rumors, Bobby Kimball's real name is Robert Toteaux and would have contributed to the band Toto the name, Steve Lukather once said: "No, that's a joke, that's a wank Someone's pulling on your willie on did one I remember years ago. ., making jokes about it, but what it never a legitimate explanation. " - Bobby Kimball's real name is Robert Troy Kimball and has thus contributed nothing to the band name.

2010 Kimball founded the band Yoso, composed of members of the band Circa: composed, which in turn is an offshoot of the band Yes. The band broke up in the summer of 2011 final. Jimi Jamison, the singer of Survivor, he released the album released in October 2011 Kimball Jamison with duets. In 2012, he was on tour, including in November and December in South America in January 2013 with the Pink Floyd tribute band Floyd Reloaded. On the album Acoustic Fever by ex- Rare Scorpionsschlagzeuger Herman Bell Kimball guest singer on the song Rock You Like a Hurricane.

Discography (excerpt)

As Toto singer

Project: Far Corporation

Solo

Duet

• 2008: The Heaven of Milano with Maria Dangell
• 2011: Kimball Jamison with Jimi Jamison

Yoso

• 2010: Elements