The reggae star had been hospitalized in intensive care for more than a week while awaiting the results of a COVID-19 test. Updated at 11:49 a.m. ET Frederick "Toots" Hibbert, the lead singer and ...

This is the neverbeforetold story of one of the most influential artists ever to come out of Jamaica Toots Hibbert It features intimate new performances and interviews with Toots rare archive from ...

Toots Hibbert was Jamaica’s James Brown. Toots was the country’s Sam Cooke, Wilson Pickett and Ray Charles too. The man born Frederick Nathaniel Hibbert on the island nation in 1942 brought funk to ...

In 2019, Jimmy Cliff said he considered Frederick “Toots” Hibbert and the Maytals’ 1962 album Never Grow Old the birth of the reggae genre. The two singers often pushed each other artistically through ...

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The Maytals formed in the 1960’s and updated their name to Toots and the Maytals for their debut album ’Sweet And Dandy’ in 1969. One of the best known ska and rocksteady groups, they also are known ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Toots Hibbert, one of reggae’s founders and most beloved stars who gave the music its name and later helped make it an international movement through such classics as “Pressure Drop,” ...

Toots Hibbert, the co-founder and lead singer of Toots and the Maytals, was one of the most distinctive and important voices of reggae and one of its founding fathers. One of the biggest voices in ...

Frederick "Toots" Hibbert, the lead singer and songwriter of Toots and the Maytals and one of reggae's foundational figures, died Friday in Kingston, Jamaica. He was 77. His death was announced on the ...