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Joseph Williams (musician) Biography | Joseph Williams

Joseph Williams(full name: Joseph Stanley Williams) is an American rock singer and film score composer, best known for his work in the rock band Toto, which he fronted as lead vocalist from 1986 to 1988, and again from 2010 to the present. He is the son of film composer John Williams and actress Barbara Ruick and the grandson of jazz drummer Johnny Williams and actors Melville Ruick and Lurene Tuttle.

Joseph Williams (musician) Age

Joseph is 58 years old as of 2018. He was born on 1 September 1960, in Santa Monica, California, United States

Joseph Williams (musician) Parents

His parents are John Williams and Barbara Ruick

Joseph Williams (musician) Wife

Amy Williams was born in Las Vegas, Nevada on March 12, 1963. At the age of 16, Amy had been writing songs for 6 years and left home to pursue a career as a singer-songwriter. By the age of 21, she was playing the acoustic club scene with a large following. Her recordings featured performances by Michael McDonald, Benmont Tench, Russ Kunkel, and Leland Sklar.
She was given excellent reviews by the L.A. Times and Los Angeles Magazine. She was said to have re-discovered folk music with social and political commentary and, of course, love, songs.
She was loved! What’s she doing now? Amye is currently living in Southern California, on a small ranch with her husband, three daughters, two Golden Retrievers, five cats, and three chinchillas. An environmental activist, once managed by Danny Goldberg she was very involved with the ACLU. She is recording a contemporary Christian album.
She is working closely with her two youngest daughters who are fourth generation actresses and musicians. They are the granddaughters of five-time Academy Award-winning film composer John Williams. The two youngest Williams grandchildren are also creating much interest as they write and perform their own songs. Amye dropped out of the Hollywood limelight in 1994 to have a family.

Joseph Williams (musician) Children

There are no records About his children names.

Joseph Williams (musician) Family

His family contains the following peoples below:

• John Williams Father
• Barbara Ruick Mother
• Amye Williams Spouse
• Mark Towner Williams Brother
• Johnny Williams Grandfather
• Lurene Tuttle Grandmother
• Melville Ruick Grandfather
• Joan Williams Aunt
• Jerry Williams Uncle
• Esther Williams Grandmother
• Jennifer Williams Sister
• O.V. Tuttle Great-grandfather
• Donald Williams Uncle

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Joseph Williams (musician) Father

John Towner Williams is an American composer, conductor, and pianist. Widely regarded as one of the greatest American composers of all time, he has composed some of the most popular, recognizable, and critically acclaimed film scores in cinematic history in a career spanning over six decades.
John Towner Williams (born February 8, 1932) is an American composer, conductor, and pianist. Widely regarded as one of the greatest American composers of all time, he has composed some of the most popular, recognizable, and critically acclaimed film scores in cinematic history in a career spanning over six decades.
Williams has won 24 Grammy Awards, seven British Academy Film Awards, five Academy Awards, and four Golden Globe Awards. With 51 Academy Award nominations, he is the second most-nominated individual, after Walt Disney.
In 2005, the American Film Institute selected Williams’s score to 1977’s Star Wars as the greatest American film score of all time. The soundtrack to Star Wars was additionally preserved by the Library of Congress into the National Recording Registry for being “culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant”.
Williams has composed for many critically acclaimed and popular movies, including the Star Wars series, Jaws, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Superman, E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, the Indiana Jones series, the first two Home Alone films, Hook, the first two Jurassic Park films, Schindler’s List, and the first three Harry Potter films.
He has been associated with director Steven Spielberg since 1974, composing music for all but five of his feature films––Duel, The Color Purple, Bridge of Spies, Ready Player One, and West Side Story.
Other works by Williams include theme music for the 1984 Summer Olympic Games, NBC Sunday Night Football, “The Mission” theme used by NBC News and Seven News in Australia, the television series Lost in Space and Land of the Giants, and the incidental music for the first season of Gilligan’s Island.
Williams has also composed numerous classical concertos and other works for orchestral ensembles and solo instruments. He served as the Boston Pops’ principal conductor from 1980 to 1993 and is its laureate conductor.
He was inducted into the Hollywood Bowl’s Hall of Fame in 2000 and was a recipient of the Kennedy Center Honors in 2004 and the AFI Life Achievement Award in 2016. Williams composed the score for eight of the top 20 highest-grossing films at the U.S. box office (adjusted for inflation).

Joseph Williams (musician) Career

Toto

Joseph was a lead vocalist with Toto during the mid-to-late 1980s and was featured on the albums Fahrenheit (1986) and The Seventh One (1988) before leaving due to personal problems. He can also be heard on the album Toto XX (1998), a compilation of rare and unreleased tracks.
He is featured on Toto’s 2006 album, Falling in Between, sharing lead vocals with Steve Lukather on “Bottom of Your Soul”. In addition to his guest spot on Falling in Between, Williams was a guest singer at several Toto concerts.
Since 2010, Joseph is once again Toto’s lead singer. He re-joined the band during their reformation tour and has toured with them since then. He performed lead vocals on their “35th Anniversary: Live In Poland” concert album and DVD, as well as on Toto’s 2015 studio album, Toto XIV.

Joseph Williams (musician) Solo work as a singer

Joseph released his first, self-titled Solo Album in 1982. After his initial tenure with Toto, he has released several more. Many of Toto’s members have contributed to his solo work over the years. In 2003, he released an album called Vertigo, a project he initiated, but where he was not in full charge of the production, only recording and supplying the vocals.
The second Vertigo album, Vertigo 2, was released in 2006. He released an album of cover songs from renowned artists such as Elton John, Bryan Adams, Diane Warren, and Kevin Cronin in 2006, called Two of Us, featuring piano and voice only.
He returned with two more voice & piano albums in 2007, Smiles and Tears, also consisting of classic hits by popular artists. His latest solo album containing original songs, This Fall, was released in November 2008.

Joseph Williams (musician) Work as a film composer

Joseph has also been busy as a composer of film and drama scores, most notably for episodes of the science fiction series Roswell, and The Lyon’s Den starring Rob Lowe. In 2003, he was nominated for an Emmy Award for “Outstanding Main Title Theme Music” for the TV series Miracles.
The music to the CBS miniseries Category 7: The End of the World and the TV film Momentum were composed by him. He was the writer of the original English lyrics for the song “Lapti Nek” from the original 1983 release of Return of the Jedi, which was scored and conducted by his father John Williams. He also composed the Max Rebo Band source cues and an unknown source cue for the same film.

Joseph Williams (musician) Session work

He has been in demand as a session vocalist and can be heard on numerous projects by other artists, as well as on Movie soundtracks. In 1985 he sang the vocals for the theme song of the animated TV series Disney’s Adventures of the Gummi Bears.
He provided backing vocals on Peter Cetera’s album World Falling Down and co-wrote the song “Man in Me”, lead vocals for three tracks – “Walk The Wire”, “History” and “When You Look in My Eyes” – to Jay Graydon’s Airplay for the Planet album, subsequently touring with the band and backing vocals on Jon Anderson’s In the City of Angels in 1988, most prominently on the song “Top of the World (The Glass Bead Game)”.
In Disney’s animated feature film The Lion King, he can be heard as the singing voice of the Adult Simba, singing on the songs “Hakuna Matata” and “Can You Feel the Love Tonight”. He reprised this singing role in the direct-to-video animated film Mickey’s Magical Christmas: Snowed in at the House of Mouse.
In 1997 and 1998 respectively, he shared vocal duties on two albums by the a cappella covers group The West Coast All-Stars, the other vocalists being Bobby Kimball, Bill Champlin, and Jason Scheff, whereas Tommy Funderburk replaced Champlin on the Naturally album.
He sings background vocals on Chicago’s “King of Might Have Been” on the 2006 album Chicago XXX as well as on “Let’s Take a Lifetime” on the 1993-recorded/2008-released album Chicago XXXII: Stone of Sisyphus.
The song “What You’re Missing” from the Chicago album Chicago 16 was co-written by him. He also sings backing vocals on five tracks from Steve Lukather’s solo album Ever Changing Times in addition to lending his vocals to another of Lukather’s solo albums, All’s Well That Ends Well. Read also Timothy B. Schmit

Joseph Williams (musician) Movies And Tv Show

• The Lion King 1994
• From Dusk Till Dawn 2: Texas Blood Money 1999
• The embrace of the Vampire 1995
• Poison Ivy II: Lily 1996
• Category 6: Day of Destruction 2004
• Mickey’s Magical Christmas: Snowed in at the House of Mouse 2001
• Phat Beach 1996
• Soccer Dog: European Cup 2004
• Below Utopia 1997
• Judgment Day 1999
• Supreme Sanction 1999
• Butter 1998
• The Legend of Gator Face 1996
• Momentum 2003
• Johnny Mysto: Boy Wizard 1997
• The Golden Blaze 2005
• Malevolent 2002
• Written in Blood 2002
• Another Life 2002

Joseph Williams Net Worth

Joseph Williams was born in Santa Monica, California in September 1960. His father is the world-famous composer John Williams. Joseph Williams is best known for being the front man of the rock band Toto. The band formed in 1976 and broke up in 2008 before reforming in 2010.
Williams was a vocalist for Toto from 1986 to 1988 and then again since 2010. He has been featured on the Toto albums Fahrenheit in 1986, The Seventh One in 1988, Toto XX in 1998, Falling in Between in 2006, and Toto XIV in 2015. He has also released the solo albums Joseph Williams in 1982, I Am Alive in 1996, 3 in 1997,
Early Years in 1999, Vertigo in 2003, Two of Us in 2006, Smiles and Tears in 2007, This Fall in 2008, and Williams/Friestedt in 2011. His grandparents included Johnny Williams, Melville Ruick, and Lurene Tuttle and he is the son of composer John Williams and actress Barbara Ruick. Joseph Williams is an American singer and film score composer who has a net worth of $20 million.

Joseph Williams (musician) Album

• Brotherly Love 2011
• The Seventh One 1988
• I Am Alive 1996
• This Fall 2008
• Vertigo 2 2006
• 3 1997
• Live in Concert 2013
• Vertigo 2003
• Early Years of 1999
• Joseph Williams 1982
• Tears 2007
• Smiles 2007
• Demo Collection 20012001
• Rare Tracks – Rarities 2004
• Hits Der 80er Flash Back Internacional Toto XIV 2015
• Guitar Legends Fahrenheit 1986
• Ultimate… the 80s 2015
• Live at Montreux 1991 2016
• 40 Tours Around The Sun (Live) 2018
• Two of Us 2006
• 10 Miles 2018
• EP Hold The Line: The Ultimate Toto Collection 2015
• 40 Trips Around the Sun 2018
• Disney Magical Musical Passport 2018
• David Garfield & The Cats Do Pop Classics 2011
• Stories, Vol. 2 2013