Peter Cetera Discography

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  Another Perfect World
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  One Clear Voice
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  One More Story
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  Peter Cetera
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  Solitude/Solitaire
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  World Falling Down
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  You`re the Inspiration

Related Artists

Songs By

Eric Carmen :: David Foster :: Mark Goldenberg :: Andy Hill :: Patrick Leonard

Member Of

The Exceptions :: Chicago Transit Authority

Influenced By

Beatles

Followers

Tom Kealey :: Joshua Kadison

Similar Artists

Amy Grant :: Christopher Cross

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Peter Paul Cetera (born September 13, 1944, Chicago, Illinois, U.S.) is an American singer, songwriter, bass guitar player and producer best known for being an original member of the rock band Chicago, before launching a successful solo career. As a solo artist Cetera has scored five top forty singles, including two that reached number 1 on Billboard`s Hot 100 chart. Cetera was born the second of six children to a Polish-American father and a Hungarian-American mother on the South Side of Chicago. He wanted a guitar but his parents instead bought him an accordion at 11 years old. When he was 15, some older students from his high school took him to a club to see a band called The Rebel Rockers, which led to his purchasing an acoustic guitar at Montgomery Ward. In December 1967, Cetera arrived early for a show to watch a band called The Big Thing. Impressed by their use of a horn section combined with rock and roll, Cetera left The Exceptions to join The Big Thing within two weeks. The Big Thing, which soon changed its name to The Chicago Transit Authority (and eventually shortened it to Chicago after complaints by the actual CTA), released their self-titled debut album The Chicago Transit Authority on Columbia Records in 1969.

A a solo artist, Cetera continued his streak of success. His first single, "Glory of Love" (the theme to the movie The Karate Kid, Part II), was a US No. 1 hit in 1986, and achieved similar success throughout the world. It went on to win an ASCAP Award for Most Performed Songs from Motion Pictures and a BMI Film & TV Award for Most Performed Song from a Film. It was also nominated for both an Academy Award and a Golden Globe in the category of Best Original Song, as well as a Grammy Award for Best Pop Vocal Performance by a Male Artist. Cetera has appeared in two movies: Electra Glide in Blue, filmed in 1973, where he played the character of Bob Zemko; and Sidney Sheldon`s Memories of Midnight, a 1991 television movie made for the USA Network, where he played the role of Larry Douglas.

In 1982, Cetera married Diane Nini they have 2 children. Cetera has lived in Sun Valley, Idaho, since the mid-1980s, where he routinely participates in numerous sports, including basketball, mountain biking, soccer, ice hockey and motorcycling.

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