Ka taƙaita labarin:  (CNN) Fiye da shekaru ashirin, dan wasan bass Mike Porcaro ya kasance tauraron dutsen tare da ƙungiyar Toto, yana wasa a wurare a duk faɗin duniya. Yanzu, duniyar kiɗa tana makoki don mutuwar Porcaro, wanda ya mutu bayan yaƙi da cutar Lou Gehrig, wanda aka fi sani da amyotrophic lateral sclerosis ko ALS. Yana da shekara 59. "Dan'uwanmu Mike ya mutu cikin kwanciyar hankali a cikin barcinsa a 12:04 AM a daren jiya a gida kewaye da danginsa", ɗan'uwan Porcaro Steve, mai kunna maɓallin ƙungiyar, ya wallafa a Facebook a ranar Lahadi. "Ka huta lafiya, dan'uwana", kimanin shekaru 10 da suka wuce, Porcaro ya fara lura da rauni a yatsunsu da hannayensu. An gano yana da cutar a shekara ta 2006. Tsoffin mambobin kungiyarsa - wadanda aka san su da "Afirka" da "Rosanna" - sun taru don taimakawa. Sun sake haɗuwa don ɗan gajeren yawon shakatawa na Turai a cikin 2010 don tallafawa Porcaro. Mawakin Toto da guitarist Steve Lukather kuma ya kira Porcaro ɗan'uwansa. "Ɗan'uwana Mike Porcaro yanzu yanzu yana da zaman lafiya", ya tweeted. "Zan yi kewarsa fiye da yadda zan iya furta shi da kalmomi. Ina mika sakon soyayyata ga iyalin. ALS cuta ce mai saurin ci gaba, sau da yawa tana kashe ƙwayoyin jijiya da ke cikin ƙwaƙwalwa da kashin baya. Tana shafar fiye da mutane 30,000 a kowane lokaci.
An gano Mike Porcaro da cutar Lou Gehrig, ALS, a shekara ta 2006. Mambobin Toto sun taru don taimaka masa. ALS yana shafar ƙwayoyin jijiya na kwakwalwa da kashin baya.