US-born singer-songwriter and producer Peter Cetera came to fame as the frontman for soft-rockers Chicago, one of America's most successful rock bands. He also went on to have a successful solo career.
Cetera began his musical career as singer and bassist with The Exceptions, another rock band from the Midwest. At the time, they were considered to be rivals of the jazz/rock band Chicago Transit Authority, who head-hunted Cetera in 1967. The band's debut album went gold (eventually platinum) and they proceeded to dominate the album and singles charts throughout the early Seventies with singles including "Does Anybody Really Know What Time It Is?" and "Saturday in the Park".
In 1976 Cetera wrote one of the band's best known tracks "If You Leave Me Now". The Grammy winning ballad got to No.1, but the success of the single put Cetera in the spotlight and exacerbated an underlying problem between the group members. Cetera started to look for a career outside the band, and released his self-titled solo debut in 1981. He didn't leave Chicago until 1985, after a purple patch for the band when they had a string of hits including "Hard to Say I'm Sorry" and "Hard Habit to Break".
On leaving the band he released the Solitude/Solitaire album, which was his most successful to date. His duet with gospeller Amy Grant, "The Next Time I Fall", got to No.1, as did another track "Glory of Love". It was used in the film Karate Kid: Part II and earned Cetera award nominations from the Oscars, the Grammys and the Golden Globes.
After a few more moderately successful albums Cetera took a break, but came back in 2001 with Another Perfect World which got to the Top 30 on the Billboard charts.
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