Peter Cetera

Peter Cetera is one of those voices that stops you cold the first time you hear it — that high, crystalline tenor floating over those lush arrangements is just something else entirely. He anchored Chicago for nearly two decades, helping the band evolve from a brassy rock outfit into one of the defining soft-rock acts of the late '70s and '80s, and his basslines were way underappreciated in all that. When he went solo in 1985, the results were immediate: "Glory of Love" for the Karate Kid II soundtrack became an era-defining power ballad, and "The Next Time I Fall" with Amy Grant was the kind of gentle duet that made AM radio feel genuinely warm. He's a Chicago native through and through, and there's something fitting about that — a city known for its grit producing one of pop music's most delicate and soaring voices.

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Name (English)

Peter Cetera

Name (Japanese)

ピーター・セテラ

Reading

ぴーたー・せてら

Born

September 13, 1944 (age 82)

Origin

Chicago, Illinois, United States

Occupation

singer / songwriter / singer-songwriter / record producer / guitarist

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Virgo / Monkey

• Official sitehttp://www.petercetera.com/
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter%20Cetera
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%94%E3%83%BC%E3%82%BF%E3%83%BC%E3%83%BB%E3%82%BB%E3%83%86%E3%83%A9
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q468815

Tags

• Illinois
• singer
• songwriter
• singer-songwriter

Last updated

October 18, 2026

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