Curiosidades

Liv Tyler's stepfather.

Recorded and produced an album entitled "Acapella", which featured only his voice, processed through various electronic devices, to emulate various musical instruments.

Co-inventor of the Flowfazer, a computer program that generates visual effects.

His creation of the first color graphics tablet in 1980 was licensed to Apple Computers and released as "The Utopia Graphics Tablet."

In 1978, he performed the first interactive television concert, broadcast live over the Warner/QUBE system in Columbus, Ohio (the home audience chose each song in real time during the concert by voting via QUBE's 2-way operating system).

BMI Million-Air Awards were also awarded to Rundgren for his other two Top 10 hit records, "I Saw The Light" and "Love Is The Answer".

In 1996 he won the Digitial Hollywood Award for Best Music CD-ROM for "The Individualist".

He gave the first live national cablecast of a rock concert in 1982, which aired on the USA Network. It was simulcast in stereo to over 120 radio stations.

In 1982 he produced the first two commercially released music videos, one of which was nominated for the first-ever Grammy awarded for Best Short Form Video in 1983.

President & CEO of Waking Dreams ("www.wakingdreams.com"). This collective founded by Todd and his partners was officially incorporated in March 1996, and is focused on the development and licensing of original or undervalued ideas into marketable content, services and technologies.

His paternal grandfather, John Sigfrid Rundgren, was a Swedish immigrant, born in Husby-Lyhundra, Stockholm. His paternal grandmother, Sophie Brandweis, was an Austrian Jewish immigrant.

Sons: Rex, Randy and Rebop.

Since moving to Hawaii, he has taught himself to play the ukulele, joking that "...if you're a musician, it's required by law".

His album "No World Order" has the songs linked together as two long mixes. Because many disk jockeys requested, he released an alternative version of the album, "No World Order - Lite", which has the same songs but mixed as seperate tracks.

Season 1, Episode 1 of Aquellos maravillosos 70 (1998) known as "The '70s Pilot" AKA "Teenage Wasteland," features a plot revolving around Eric going to see a Todd Rundgren concert in Milwaukee. Two of Rundgren's songs are also featured in the episode, "I Saw The Light" and "Hello It's Me".

He presented the first live nationally broadcast stereo radio concert (by microwave), linking 40 cities around the country, in 1978.

His 1981 "Time Heals," video was the first music video to utilize state-of-the-art compositing of live action and computer graphics. Produced and directed by Rundgren, it became the second video to be played on MTV (after The Buggles' "Video Killed the Radio Star").

Living in Kauai, Hawaii, USA with his wife and child. (2002)

He was with the rock group, "Utopia".

Several of his compositions, notably "Hello, It's Me", "I Saw the Light" and "Bang the Drum All Day", are standards known by bar bands across the USA.

Incorporates the song "Bang the Drum All Day" into his concerts, often when the audience is least expecting it.

In 1979 he opened Utopia Video Studios, a multi-million-dollar state-of-the-art facility. The first project produced by Todd there was Gustav Holst's "The Planets", commissioned by RCA SelectaVision as the first demonstration software for its new videodisc format.

In 1994 he won the award for Best Composition Arrangment for "No World Order" from the Interactive Academy.

Grew up in Upper Darby, Pennsylvania, which is the hometown of Tina Fey. They had the same algebra teacher, although 20 years apart.

His 1978 Hit "Can We Still Be Friends" was number 1 in Australia.

His album "With A Twist" (a nod to the "retro lounge" movement) features bossa nova versions of his most popular compositions.

Formerly in the group The Nazz, the biggest hit of his solo career was "Hello It's Me". Solo again, he produced his solo "No World Order" which was first interactive CD. Now goes by name TR-i for "interactive".