Born in Chicago, Chris Parker was playing drums at age three and began performing his first professional gigs at eleven. At nineteen, Parker began recording and touring with blues great Paul Butterfield and broke into the New York studio scene in 1970, doing records, movie scores and filling the drum chair at Saturday Night Live.



Toph, as friends know him, recorded platinum, gold and Grammy winning albums and CDs with many artists, including Bob Dylan, Ashford and Simpson, Natalie Cole, Aretha Franklin, Freddie Hubbard, Salt 'n' Pepa, Stuff, Patti LaBelle and Michael Bolton. He has toured with many artists; among them Boz Scaggs, Joe Cocker, Bob Dylan, Bette Midler, Paul Simon and Ralph MacDonald.