David Paich

David Paich at a live concert

David Paich (born June 25, 1954 in Los Angeles , California) is an American keyboardist , singer and songwriter . He is a founding member of the US rock band Toto .

Life

David Paich grew up in Los Angeles as the son of the well-known composer and arranger Marty Paich . Animated by his father, he learned to play the piano at an early age. During his school days he formed his first band with friends, including the later Toto founding members Steve Lukather , Jeff Porcaro and Steve Porcaro . Paich also worked as a session musician in Los Angeles, where he is still a popular guest on many albums through his collaboration with Boz Scaggs , Don Henley , Bryan Adams , Diana Ross , Joe Cocker , Rod Stewart , Michael Jackson , David Garfield and Pink is.

In 1976 he founded the band Toto together with the Porcaro brothers, Steve Lukather, Bobby Kimball and David Hungate . David Paich is the composer of many of Toto’s songs, such as B. Africa , together with Jeff Porcaro, Stranger In Town or Rosanna , for whom the band won a Grammy Award in 1982 . In 1984 David Paich wrote and produced the Toto soundtrack for the remake of David Lynch's film Dune . In the past few years he has also worked on several projects again. So he played u. a. together with his bandmates Steve Lukather, Steve and Mike Porcaro , Bobby Kimball and the former Toto singers Fergie Frederiksen and Joseph Williams on Radioactive , a hard rock project by the Swedish guitarist Tommy Denander . In 2006 a new Toto album was released, Falling In Between , in which Paich was again significantly involved.

Rumors about Paich's planned gender reassignment are false and arose from a joking message from his Toto colleagues who refused to reveal the real reason for Paich's absence in the summer of 2003, a case of illness in his family circle. It is now known that it is his seriously ill sister. Because of her, Paich decided not to participate in Toto concerts outside the USA for an indefinite period of time, but was still a permanent member of the group. With Greg Phillinganes , who has played sporadically with Toto since 2003 and occasionally replaced him, the band had a second permanent keyboardist since 2005, who was now able to relieve David Paich.

In 2008, at the invitation of the organizers, Paich worked with other artists on musical arrangements for the Olympic Games in Beijing.

David Paich's musical equipment includes A. the following keyboards: Yamaha KX-88 , Hammond XB-2 , Yamaha Motif 8 , Yamaha SY-77 , Korg Triton , Yamaha SY-99 , Yamaha DX-7 , Yamaha Motif XF , Kurzweil PC3X . In 2018 the Yamaha Motif XF was replaced by the successor model Yamaha Montage.

Awards (as a solo artist)

year	Org.	Award	title
1974	Emmy Award	Best song or theme	Light The Way from the TV series " Ironside " *
1976	Grammy Award	Best Rhythm & Blues Song	Lowdown (interpreter: Boz Scaggs ) **

* as songwriter together with Marty Paich . ** as songwriter together with Boz Scaggs .

There are also numerous awards for / with Toto .

Discography (excerpt)

• 1973: Bittersweet White Light ( Cher ), I Can Stand A Little Rain ( Joe Cocker )
• 1975: Diamonds and Rust ( Joan Baez )
• 1976: Silk Degrees ( Boz Scaggs )
• 1977: Baby It's Me ( Diana Ross )
• 1978: Toto (Toto), From The Inside ( Alice Cooper ), Double Vision ( Foreigner )
• 1979: Hydra (Toto)
• 1981: Turn Back (Toto)
• 1981: The Way I Am ( Billy Preston )
• 1982: Toto IV (Toto) (Album of the year, Grammy Award 1982)
• 1982: Thriller ( Michael Jackson ) (Album of the year, Grammy Award 1983)
• 1984: Dune - OST , Isolation (Toto)
• 1985: Building The Perfect Beast ( Don Henley )
• 1985: We Are The World (USA For Africa) (Album of the Year, Grammy nomination 1985)
• 1986: Fahrenheit (Toto)
• 1986: St. Elmo´s Fire - OST (Best Original Score, Grammy nomination 1986)
• 1987: Bad (Michael Jackson) (Album of the year, Grammy nomination 1987)
• 1987: Hai Hai ( Roger Hodgson )
• 1988: The Seventh One (Toto)
• 1989: End Of The Innocence (Don Henley) (Album of the year, Grammy nomination 1989)
• 1990: Past To Present (Toto)
• 1990: Back on the Block ( Quincy Jones ) (Album of the year, Grammy Award 1990)
• 1991: Dangerous (Michael Jackson), Vagabond Heart ( Rod Stewart )
• 1992: Kingdom Of Desire (Toto), Night Calls (Joe Cocker)
• 1993: Absolutely Live (Toto), So Far So Good ( Bryan Adams )
• 1995: Tambu (Toto)
• 1995: HIStory - Past, Present and Future Book I (Michael Jackson) (Album of the Year, Grammy nomination 1995)
• 1998: Toto XX (Toto)
• 1999: Mindfields (Toto)
• 1999: Livefields (Toto)
• 2002: Through The Looking Glass (Toto)
• 2003: Live in Amsterdam (Toto)
• 2001: Ceremony Of Innocence ( Radioactive )
• 2003: Yeah (Radioactive), Try This ( Pink )
• 2005: Taken (Radioactive)
• 2006: Falling In Between (Toto)
• 2015: XIV (Toto)

Web links

• Works by and about David Paich in the catalog of the German National Library
• David Paich in the Internet Movie Database (English)