Examples of using Lukather in English and their translations into Serbian
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Lukather solo with Toto.
Success continued with the single"Beat It", which featured guitarists Eddie Van Halen and Steve Lukather.
Lukather has been nominated for twelve Grammy Awards, and has won five.
Influenced by such blues-rock guitarists as Jimi Hendrix and Jimmy Page, and such jazz fusion players as Al Di Meola andJohn McLaughlin, Lukather is known for a"melodic and intense" playing style.
Lukather also credits Jeff Porcaro for his leadership within the band during that period.
It was during this period in the early 1970s that Lukather became interested in the idea of becoming a session musician, a vocation that provided opportunities to play with a variety of famous musicians.[3].
Lukather, who had been a self-taught musician, began taking guitar lessons from Jimmy Wyble.
With Wyble, Lukather expanded his knowledge of wider aspects of music, including orchestration.
Lukather has released seven solo albums, the latest of which, Transition, was released in January 2013.
David Hungate, Lukather, Porcaro, and Bobby Kimball were recruited before the first album release.
Lukather plays primarily a signature electric guitar manufactured by Ernie Ball Music Man bearing his nickname, Luke.
Since 2012, Lukather has toured with former Beatles drummer Ringo Starr's live supergroup, the All-Starr Band.
Lukather has said that the album"changed his life" and that he was greatly influenced by the guitar playing of George Harrison in particular.[2][3].
At Grant High School,[4] Lukather met David Paich and the Porcaro brothers(Jeff, Steve, and Mike),[5] all of whom eventually became members of Toto.
Lukather is the original lead guitarist for Toto, serving in that capacity for the band's entire history, as well as a lead and backing vocalist and composer.
In 1976, when Lukather was nineteen years old, he was invited by his high school friends David Paich and the Porcaro brothers Steve and Jeff to join them in forming their band, Toto.
Lukather won three of his five Grammy Awards for work with Toto, twice as an artist and once as a producer.[9] David Paich led the band's songwriting efforts during the development of 1978's Toto-he penned all but two of the album's tracks, including all four of its singles.
Lukather's first job in the music industry was studio work with Boz Scaggs,[7] after which Paich and Jeff Porcaro-who had become prominent session musicians in their own right[8]-asked Lukather to join them in forming Toto in 1976 along with Bobby Kimball, David Hungate, and Steve Porcaro.[4].