Toto & Christopher Cross in Albuquerque

Toto is an American rock band formed in Los Angeles in 1977 by a group of session musicians. The band plays polished rock and pop informed by soul and jazz, and is best known for “Hold the Line,” “Rosanna” and “Africa,” the latter two from the album Toto IV. Toto performed at the Montreux Jazz Festival in 1991, a concert later released as Live at Montreux 1991. The band marked its 25th anniversary with a 2003 concert at Amsterdam’s Heineken Music Hall, issued as 25th Anniversary: Live in Amsterdam, then played arenas and theatres on the 40 Trips Around the Sun tour launched in 2018. Toto has returned repeatedly to Japan and has also toured Germany and Italy across several decades.

Christopher Cross is an American singer-songwriter and guitarist, born in San Antonio in 1951, whose polished soft rock became widely known through “Sailing,” “Ride Like the Wind” and “Arthur’s Theme (Best That You Can Do).” His self-titled debut won the Grammy Award for Album of the Year, while “Sailing” received both Record of the Year and Song of the Year. In 1992, he toured as a member of Ringo Starr & His All-Starr Band. The concert album and film A Night in Paris documented his 2012 full-band performance at Le Trianon, and his later 40th Anniversary Tour presented the self-titled debut in full alongside other songs from his catalogue.