@@Jaggerbush excuse me are you a vocalist who has been singing 60+ years or a vocalist at all? That man has been entertaining you before you were even a fetus. I'm a Gen Z and think he has a badass voice so don't accuse me of being a boomer. Sorry he ain't the auto tune pop shit you probably listen too. Dude don't come here if your gonna disrespect a legend who could out sing you any day!
@@starjokerx574 buddy I was born in 1972 - I remember these songs as they were released - and yes- actually I graduated for pgh creative and preforming arts school and then went to Berklee on scholarship so I’m more than qualified to speak my mind, kiddo.
Back in his prime no one could come close to his vocals and if you never listened to I'll supply the love find the vid on here and listen to his voice and prove me wrong.
@Michael David Michael absolutely great comment ! I saw TOTO in "1984" in "R" city's best soft seat theater, as a working professional musician I booked my tickets/seats directly in front of the audio mixing board ! ultimately the best seat in the house ! OMG every one up there was absolutely 100% pro ! but Bobby Kimball was the most impressive that night ! today it's sad the ICONIC sound of ToTo is gone but the remnants "R" still trying to sell it ! basically there a over paid cover band !
@@martinhiggs7027 And there's not even one Porcaro in the band again. Bobby was in a league of his own. I like the Frankfurt Rock Orchestra album of Toto covers he did in 1990.
I couldn't agree more and in his prime no one couldn't come close to his great singing voice and always said so especially I'll supply the Love which is my favorite Toto tune and Bobby was great..
Steve Lukather and David Paich also sang lead vocals on the first Toto album, so I wouldn't go so far as to call Bobby the only "original" voice of the band. As for their biggest hits, "Rosanna", for example, starts with Lukather on lead vocals. "Africa" starts with David Paich on lead.
Bobby was completely inaudible during choruses except screaming at the end. His voice was very good here so I don't understand why he decided not to stay closer to the mic.
@@cartoonicmegamind5543 You could hear him going off key in the choruses so they turned the female vocalists up a bit then he saved the best til last at 3:54.
Just saw this tonight as I work in my studio ! Bobby leased My Tour Coaches for some Tours ! I drove his coach " Star Coach " we had a great time !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Interesting without David Paisch on lead vocals...Bobby here did a fantastic job regardless. I'm glad that Toto is allowing him to sing their stuff as a solo artist. Much respect to all.
This is probably Bobby Kimball's best performance with no audio enhancement in the last 20 years judging from other videos. The 3 background singers helped him out a lot as well.
Good thing the sound guy turned up the background singers. Nevertheless still gotta be one of his better performances in recent years. The years were not kind to his voice.
I hate the tendency to auto-tune everyone's vocals to death these days, but I feel like Bobby's performances the last decade or so make a good argument for using it.
Who would have thought! Not to discredit David Paich's vocals on this, but Mr. Bobby Kimball's voice was great, not to mention he did a great job on doing this whole song by himself, except the background vocals of the ladies. Mr. Kimball just amazing!
No you wouldn't. Watch more recent videos of him performing this song. He sounds absolutely horrible! He's completely tone deaf and can hardly hit ANY note...high or low. It's a shame what partying can do to the great talent that he was. This performance was AMAZING though...he was spot on with just about everything! 😀
@@worschtee1 he's not tone deaf, he's just DEAF. he has hearing issues.. his voice isn't completely horrible, his range is still there but his control and pitch are miserable, which makes it sound awful.
Michael Langley are you kidding me? Watch a recent live performance. He is still a legend but it is slowly getting worse. He is working on it and getting it better though.
Carson Farmer i don't know why you're kidding him because his voice has depend over the years he can't hit notes like he did 20-30 years ago but that's old age so most of the time he sings things in a lower key but over the past year he has been nailing it .
You can tell Bobby's voice is starting to go. So sad! He still doesn't seem to realize it's time to call it a day. what is he 70, he had a great run and was fantastic but sometimes we don't get to keep what we had in our youth. so sorry Bobby but you were one of the greats of your time.! many thanks for that.
Its up and down for Bobby. He lost his on the Falling In Between tour but seemed to get it back in 2010. Bobby is 71 now and due to his age , the amount of shows he does a year and being almost deaf it makes it harder for him.
I honestly think it’s a pitch problem.. like he lost his hearing and it’s hard for him to lock on to the key.. because even in some of the newer videos he still has some range and can hit some fairly high notes but it’s his pitch
What's ironic about that? noone can sing at 63 as when young, and compensating this with backing vocals is a very usual thing, again i don't understand what's the word "ironic" has to do with that :D
@@alienbishop Toto also uses younger background-singers to support Joseph Williams. It's very challenging to sing the high vocal-parts day by day during a tour.
▓▒░ I guess the drummer must be listening to some form of metronome. Perfect tempo from start to end. And even the members of the orchestra seem to enjoy every moment of this song. ░ Personally...I prefer these instruments doing the solo / bridge *(**3:16**)* more than the instrumentation done on the original Toto recording. ░▒▓ `
Toto was never the same since Bobbie left. In fact, they have to settle for mediocre singers Les Joe Williams. It’s very hard to replace the quality of Bobbie‘s boys.
His hearing has taken a huge toll. It's hard for him to sing on pitch in a full band but he can do it in an acoustic setting. His range is still there but without being able to hear well it's taking a huge toll for him to stay in key.
Africa is a Paich song, not meant to be sung by Bobby. It sounds like that he can't sing that low, it sounds like he's out of breath. Even Joesph Williams singing this song live in the later years after Paich retired is even good (Better than Bobby's.) Sorry Bobby, your time was in the early years of Toto, not now.
The guy's old and practically deaf It's pretty sad really this is actually one of his best recent performances I saw on yt tbh. I wonder if he has any financial difficulties and is doing it for the money
True that Bobby sounds like Toto, no getting around that. But Joseph Williams has a better voice, I actually prefer his voice which has gotten stronger while Bobby's voice got much much worse over the years. His voice was starting to get bad way back in 2004.
![Ringo Starr and Steve Lukather (Toto) - Africa / Rosanna / Hold The Line [live 2019]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/7CsRgAJRoko/mqdefault.jpg)
![Ringo Starr and Steve Lukather (Toto) - Africa / Rosanna / Hold The Line [live 2019]](/img/tr.png)
His vocals here are great!!
Still kicking in that age
He's off key like 80% of the time. Nowhere near "great".
What a voice Bobby Kimball! What a song❤️
You’re joking right? This guy can’t sing
@@Jaggerbush excuse me are you a vocalist who has been singing 60+ years or a vocalist at all? That man has been entertaining you before you were even a fetus. I'm a Gen Z and think he has a badass voice so don't accuse me of being a boomer. Sorry he ain't the auto tune pop shit you probably listen too. Dude don't come here if your gonna disrespect a legend who could out sing you any day!
@@starjokerx574 buddy I was born in 1972 - I remember these songs as they were released - and yes- actually I graduated for pgh creative and preforming arts school and then went to Berklee on scholarship so I’m more than qualified to speak my mind, kiddo.
@@Jaggerbush
..anymore..
Bobby will always be the driving force behind songs like Africa, Rosanna, Hold the Line, Etc.
nah bro, others maybe lipsync but bobby always do it live
nah bro, other may be, but bobby always live, check out their past video for sure
use your ear bro, not eyes
do you believe in steve? steve is just little brother need to lie
Azura what i'm saying is the truth unless you're lukather's bitch
The horns gives it a slight "Chicago" sound
Back in his prime no one could come close to his vocals and if you never listened to I'll supply the love find the vid on here and listen to his voice and prove me wrong.
Steve Perry.
Lou Graham
@rub800 I definitely agree with you and it's Gramm.Loved Foreigner back in the 80's and saw them many times until Lou Gramm left.
@@squonk86 Sorry the autocorrect feature screwed me up, always checking for spelling and Grammatico errors
@@rub800 👍
3:54 This is the perfect celestial voice that only Bobby can sing!
What a moment!
Bobby still had it when he could hear himself.
Any male singer knows this chorus sung in full voice in the original key is beyond challenging.
Don't sing the chorus part alone. It must be singing in groups.
@@MichaelSouhoka aka backing vocals, there are 3 to 4 ppl singing at once on. the 2003 summer tour of toto.
Yes lmao
Sure as heck. That’s why the great Bobby here is not singing it…
Son 3 voces a la vez el solo de. África.
Bobby forever!!
👏👏🥇 perfect performance 👏👏👑🔝🎹🎸🥁🎺🎷🎻👍🖤💜🛐📿🎛️🎤🎙️🥀
He deserves to get out there and enjoy himself and sing his heart out. Still kicking butt.
HE IS ILL NOW- HAS DEMENTIA. MOVIE COMING OUT ABOUT IT
Que locos !!!!
Fantástico, genial Bobby Kimball!!!!
Bobby you don't have to keep going out and validating yourself. We all know it was YOU on this great cut.
Fantastique
Absolutely freaking incredible this is the sound of Toto that they have no more, this man is a unbelievable singer 👏
Bobby The Beast
@Michael David Michael absolutely great comment ! I saw TOTO in "1984" in "R" city's best soft seat theater, as a working professional musician I booked my tickets/seats directly in front of the audio mixing board ! ultimately the best seat in the house ! OMG every one up there was absolutely 100% pro ! but Bobby Kimball was the most impressive that night ! today it's sad the ICONIC sound of ToTo is gone but the remnants "R" still trying to sell it ! basically there a over paid cover band !
@@martinhiggs7027 And there's not even one Porcaro in the band again. Bobby was in a league of his own. I like the Frankfurt Rock Orchestra album of Toto covers he did in 1990.
Amazing Bobby Kimball vocals!
Bobby, you're the soul of Toto!
Thanks for all this videos - a great show. I saw it in Grugahalle Essen! Very great!
Crazywillie2306
Ladies sing the middle voices and Bobby the highest... outstanding!
Bobby não precisa provar nada mais pra ninguém, sua obra fala por si.
Bobby the best !
Bobby eres increíble!
Bobby is Toto's original and successful voice!!!
Yes and it touches me still very deep hearing his voice.
I couldn't agree more and in his prime no one couldn't come close to his great singing voice and always said so especially I'll supply the Love which is my favorite Toto tune and Bobby was great..
Steve Lukather and David Paich also sang lead vocals on the first Toto album, so I wouldn't go so far as to call Bobby the only "original" voice of the band. As for their biggest hits, "Rosanna", for example, starts with Lukather on lead vocals. "Africa" starts with David Paich on lead.
@@BlueEyes-gp8lg Agreed. Bobby sang lead on Hold The Line, the rest he contributed vocals to on other hits with the group.
Never heard. Bobby in a low tone. Awesome!!
This is insane bobby!
Best musician TOTO.
Te amo Bobby sos el mejor de todos!! vení a Argentina por favor es mí sueño conocerte tengo 27 años y desde chica te ame
Amame a mi jajaj. Saludos desde Chile.
Wow! That belting part is awesome
Bobby was completely inaudible during choruses except screaming at the end. His voice was very good here so I don't understand why he decided not to stay closer to the mic.
Maybe to save his voice for the screaming part...
@@cartoonicmegamind5543 You could hear him going off key in the choruses so they turned the female vocalists up a bit then he saved the best til last at 3:54.
This one was actually very good. I'm surprised! This must have been a while back. He dont sound to good nowadays. But I love u Bobby.
Yea it was 2010
Just saw this tonight as I work in my studio ! Bobby leased My Tour Coaches for some Tours ! I drove his coach " Star Coach " we had a great time !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Bobby Kimball voz inesquecível, grandes músicas, bons tempos.
Sensacional
Bruno Masi?
One of the best
Interesting without David Paisch on lead vocals...Bobby here did a fantastic job regardless. I'm glad that Toto is allowing him to sing their stuff as a solo artist. Much respect to all.
Dan Trigona I disagree.He doesn't quite nail it on the lower keys.
Read Luke's book he explains it.bobby has voice issues and
BK owns 50% royalty / publishing of this song ! Toto has no control on any live performances !
Bobby es la voz de TOTO nobody could replace him
Damn he sings David's parts awesome tbh
ヒゲおじさん、カッコイイです。
His vocie voice is irreplaceable. Just great.
Aún no puedo creer que ya no siga en TOTO :(
Bobby TOTALLY ROCKED THIS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! GO BOBBY KIMBALL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
Awesome!
Great musician toto
This blow me away.. Fantastic
Gosto do toto com este vocalista
Real brass on Africa is actually... Wow that's really cool
If Africa was originally done Orchestrally it still would have been a huge hit.
This is probably Bobby Kimball's best performance with no audio enhancement in the last 20 years judging from other videos. The 3 background singers helped him out a lot as well.
It sounded pretty tight
You do realise it’s a backing track yeah?
He is Amazing
👏👏👏👏👏
One word: Phenomenal!
Lush Oberheim analog sythesizer needed.
❤❤❤🎼🎼🎼🎼🎼
bobby, you 're the best!
Doesn’t sound bad at all at least he has the ability too still sing which is great 3:57
Super!
La intro es de David paich.
Good thing the sound guy turned up the background singers. Nevertheless still gotta be one of his better performances in recent years. The years were not kind to his voice.
Its the vibrato that's the problem. He can reach the high notes but can't sustain them.
I hate the tendency to auto-tune everyone's vocals to death these days, but I feel like Bobby's performances the last decade or so make a good argument for using it.
"The years were not kind to his voice." Neither was the coke...
Kinda sad performing a song that will pay royalties to the guys who fired you.
@@david34802 You don't know anything...
Matt Sinner on bass guitar
Lets see some love for Bobby!
He was touring on music he didn’t own. Not cool
Bobby sounded good here!
Who would have thought! Not to discredit David Paich's vocals on this, but Mr. Bobby Kimball's voice was great, not to mention he did a great job on doing this whole song by himself, except the background vocals of the ladies. Mr. Kimball just amazing!
wow he really got propped on that one.
Bobby is the ONLY voice for the high parts. Would like to see him again with Toto.
No you wouldn't. Watch more recent videos of him performing this song. He sounds absolutely horrible! He's completely tone deaf and can hardly hit ANY note...high or low. It's a shame what partying can do to the great talent that he was. This performance was AMAZING though...he was spot on with just about everything! 😀
@@worschtee1 he's not tone deaf, he's just DEAF. he has hearing issues..
his voice isn't completely horrible, his range is still there but his control and pitch are miserable, which makes it sound awful.
who the fuck are these backing vox. damn. they are amazing
4:14 best
FUCK YEAH that was good
Here he can sing very nice: 3:50 to 4:20 :D
facundo zuretti yes. 30+ years later that is just great! Backup singers keep him from straining so we get to hear this
Your taking the piss yeah?
watched it twice because i couldnt believe it whas him singing that part
Not bad considering his voice was shot in 2007 and 2008.
When you voyce is so high and you try to sing very low vocals... sound a kind of poor
Yeah he was never really good at the low vocals he was so much better as a belter
Bobby's voice has deepened a tad over the years which had allowed him to sing a little lower.
Michael Langley are you kidding me? Watch a recent live performance. He is still a legend but it is slowly getting worse. He is working on it and getting it better though.
Carson Farmer i don't know why you're kidding him because his voice has depend over the years he can't hit notes like he did 20-30 years ago but that's old age so most of the time he sings things in a lower key but over the past year he has been nailing it .
Ethan Lowry this is from 2010. I agree he is still awesome but he isn't as good now as he was in this video.
You can tell Bobby's voice is starting to go. So sad! He still doesn't seem to realize it's time to call it a day. what is he 70, he had a great run and was fantastic but sometimes we don't get to keep what we had in our youth. so sorry Bobby but you were one of the greats of your time.! many thanks for that.
Those Backup singers are amazing
Bobby Kimball c'était du lourd avec le groupe TOTO.....
What happened from here to nowdays its like hos voice aged 80 years insted of 8
Its up and down for Bobby. He lost his on the Falling In Between tour but seemed to get it back in 2010. Bobby is 71 now and due to his age , the amount of shows he does a year and being almost deaf it makes it harder for him.
I honestly think it’s a pitch problem.. like he lost his hearing and it’s hard for him to lock on to the key.. because even in some of the newer videos he still has some range and can hit some fairly high notes but it’s his pitch
Without Bobby toto would've Been nothing
kind of ironic that they put the background singers on the higher parts which he can sing best
What's ironic about that? noone can sing at 63 as when young, and compensating this with backing vocals is a very usual thing, again i don't understand what's the word "ironic" has to do with that :D
@@alienbishop Toto also uses younger background-singers to support Joseph Williams. It's very challenging to sing the high vocal-parts day by day during a tour.
Bobby Kimball is still The Best Lead Vocalist Band of TOTO!!
▓▒░ I guess the drummer must be listening
to some form of metronome.
Perfect tempo from start to end.
And even the members of the orchestra
seem to enjoy every moment of this song.
░
Personally...I prefer these instruments doing
the solo / bridge *(**3:16**)* more than the
instrumentation done on the original
Toto recording. ░▒▓
`
drumming to a metronome is very common in modern gigs.
David Paisch is vocals toto
David Paich is second singer in Toto.
And Steve Lukather. Bobby shares vocals on 2 of the biggest Toto hits.
@@filiplipkowski3902 no it s lukather
Toto was never the same since Bobbie left. In fact, they have to settle for mediocre singers Les Joe Williams. It’s very hard to replace the quality of Bobbie‘s boys.
wirklich super ! wer hat den Song geschrieben ?
Nach meinem Wissen hatte Bobby Kimball den Song geschrieben.
Hier mein Interview mit ihm im April 2018:
th-cam.com/video/TZY7f-XS_bA/w-d-xo.html
Guten morgen
compare this to his 2015 performance, this ones only 5 years earlier but so much better lol
His hearing has taken a huge toll. It's hard for him to sing on pitch in a full band but he can do it in an acoustic setting. His range is still there but without being able to hear well it's taking a huge toll for him to stay in key.
@@0megalul309 yup
4:25 girls next to Bobby "wtf was that?" Hahah
Nice
be alright dean lewis
Africa is a Paich song, not meant to be sung by Bobby. It sounds like that he can't sing that low, it sounds like he's out of breath. Even Joesph Williams singing this song live in the later years after Paich retired is even good (Better than Bobby's.) Sorry Bobby, your time was in the early years of Toto, not now.
He should take a page from Peter Cetera's book and drop the key so he can hit the chorus again.
That would make the verse too low for him
the chorus. LOL
Hmm
I've got a strong feeling being tricked by bobby's vocals.
It is mostly the female backups you are hearing
In Kimballs defense he never sang the version in the original.
David Paich did the verse, but if I'm right Bobby did the chorus.
@@funklover24 Bobby did the pre chorus and everyone sang in the chorus.
THOSE CHICKS SINGING ARE HOT!!!
the one on the left!!
That girl on the flute! 🥰
This dude is a nightmare
Yea
Wearing earpiece and still be that flat ? Bobby god bless ya..
The guy's old and practically deaf It's pretty sad really this is actually one of his best recent performances I saw on yt tbh. I wonder if he has any financial difficulties and is doing it for the money
@@asafcohen8796 He didn't write many songs in Toto and had done 200-250 shows a year until he had to retire.
SOME NICE GIRLS SINGING ''AFRICA'' ......
Orchestras can rarely groove as in this case.
It s no TOTO without Bobby.
True that Bobby sounds like Toto, no getting around that. But Joseph Williams has a better voice, I actually prefer his voice which has gotten stronger while Bobby's voice got much much worse over the years. His voice was starting to get bad way back in 2004.
He lost his voice years ago...
Jesus!!
Bobby was definitely loosing his tone & tenor here, sad to see & hear, hope he is ok these days
He’s not.
Love how some of the orchestra players try to pretend to play, when they're playing fuck all...
Fuck, he must have lots of money still, to hire an orchestra band even
Nope that’s why he was touring on other peoples music.
@@srh667 no
voice is done
Toto sin Bobby no es Toto
Así es y Bobby sin las coristas no es Bobby.
Bobbie es respeto pero perdió su gran voz que tenía en 1983, no se cuidó mucho por los excesos.Pero allí esta y siempre será TOTO.
You sound like the same person who would say "Journey isn't journey without Steve Perry"
This gave me thrills. It's obvious that his voice will be battered over the years. Just needs to tone down the backing singers.
matster shardel you should have just listened to the CD. You do realise it’s a backing track yeah?
@@petemac3964 No it isn't there's a complete live orchestra....