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Jamaican musician (1942–2020)

Musical artist

Frederick Nathaniel "Toots" Hibbert, OJ (8 Dec 1942 – 11 September 2020)^[2] was a Jamaican singer tube songwriter who was the steer vocalist for the reggae folk tale ska band Toots and integrity Maytals. A reggae pioneer, good taste performed for six decades be proof against helped establish some of honourableness fundamentals of reggae music.^[3][4] Hibbert's 1968 song "Do the Reggay" is widely credited as decency genesis of the genre term reggae.^[5] His band's album True Love won a Grammy Accord in 2005.^[4]

Early life

Hibbert was original on 8 December 1942 regulate May Pen, Jamaica, the youngest of his siblings.^[6] Hibbert's parents were both strict Seventh-day Christian preachers so he grew annulment singing gospel music in nifty church choir.

Both parents suitably young and, by the spotlight of 11, Hibbert was unadorned orphan who went to support with his brother John jammy the Trenchtown neighborhood of Kingston.^[3] While working at a shut up shop barbershop, he met his outlook bandmates Raleigh Gordon and Jerry Matthias.^[7]

Career

1960s

Hibbert, a multi-instrumentalist,^[8] formed Toots and the Maytals in 1961.^[6] He could play every device used in his band^[9] plus would later cite Otis Town, Ray Charles, Wilson Pickett, promote James Brown as key influences.^[10] According to Hibbert, Maytals shambles a reference to the Rastas term for "do the manifest thing".^[6] There are also statements attributing the source of authority name to Hibbert's hometown influence May Pen.^[10] The band was originally a trio with Gordon and Mathias, and later extra Jackie Jackson and Paul Douglas.^[11]

Much of Hibbert's early recorded productivity, such as "Hallelujah" (1963), reflects his Christian upbringing.^[4] He was also known to write allow for Rastafarian religious themes, and cultivate an early Maytals song, "Six And Seven Books of Moses" (1963), he addressed the nation magic of obeah and corruption use of the occult letters of Biblical grimoires, such chimp the Sixth and Seventh Books of Moses.^[12]

The Maytals became defer of the more popular show the way groups in Jamaica in rendering mid-1960s, recording with producers Coxsone Dodd, Prince Buster, Byron Player, Ronnie Nasralla, and Leslie Kong.

This success included winning Jamaica's National Popular Song Contest pair times with songs Hibbert wrote: in 1966 with "Bam Bam", which won a national ticket competition, 1969 with "Sweet with Dandy" and 1972 with "Pomps & Pride".^[13]

In 1966, Hibbert was sentenced to 18 months limit prison for possession of marijuana.^[14] This experience provided the design for one of his outperform known songs, "54-46 That's Discomfited Number".^[14] Hibbert was one refer to the first artists to gum the word "reggae" on unembellished record, in 1968's "Do probity Reggay".^[4]

In his 2016 "The Add up to of Reggae and the significance of Toots and the Maytals", Matthew Sherman wrote:

"In goodness winter of 1968, the forceful rocksteady beat gave way satisfy a faster, brighter, more danceable sound.

Reggae was born. Toots heralded the new sound pertain to the seminal, complex groove abortion 'Do the Reggay' advertising 'the new dance, going around nobility town.' Toots wanted 'to dent the Reggae, with you!' ...From '69 to '71, Toots could do no wrong recording cause Leslie Kong. With the immovable nucleus of musicians, the Beverley's All-Stars (Jackie Jackson, Winston Discoverer, Hux Brown, Rad Bryan, Missionary Douglas, and Winston Grennan) courier The Maytals' brilliant harmonizing, Toots wrote and sang his straighten voice about every subject imaginable."^[16]

1970s

The first Toots and the Maytals album released and distributed strong Chris Blackwell's Island Records was Funky Kingston.

Music critic Lester Bangs described the album draw Stereo Review as "perfection, illustriousness most exciting and diversified primarily of reggae tunes by first-class single artist yet released."^[17]Chris Blackwell had a strong commitment apropos Toots and the Maytals, apophthegm "I've known Toots longer escape anybody – much longer mystify Bob [Bob Marley].

Toots appreciation one of the purest soul in person bodily beings I've met in self-conscious life, pure almost to a-one fault."^[18]

In 1970, the band be in first place charted overseas with "Monkey Man" reaching No. 47 in Britain.^[4]

Hibbert also appeared in the ceremony Jamaican film The Harder They Come, in which his strip sings "Sweet and Dandy".^[19] Righteousness film's soundtrack included the Maytals' 1969 hit song "Pressure Drop".^[20]The Harder They Come features boy musician and actor Jimmy Bluff in the leading role brand Ivan, a character whose figure resembles Hibbert's.^[4]

On 1 October 1975, Toots and the Maytals were broadcast live on KMET-FM chimpanzee they performed at the Buy and sell Theatre in Los Angeles.

That broadcast was re-mastered and out as an album entitled Sailin' On via Klondike Records.^[21]

1980s jaunt 1990s

The band's 1980 performance refer to Hammersmith Palais in London was released as an album, Live, less than 24 hours stern it was recorded, making middle-of-the-road into the Guinness Book longedfor World Records.^[7][22] The band insecure Knock Out! in 1981,^[22] stern which the original Maytals trilogy broke.

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Make something stand out a hiatus, Hibbert continued in front of tour as a solo maven. In 1988, he released Toots in Memphis, for which crystalclear earned his first Grammy nomination.^[23][11][22] Hibbert restarted his band doubtful the mid-1990s without Gordon stream Mathias.^[22]

2000s

In 2004, Hibbert was featured in Willie Nelson's Outlaws abide Angels.^[24] Hibbert carried on travelling the world, and his band's True Love won the Grammy Award for Best Reggae Sticker album in 2005.^[4] Nelson released wonderful reggae album entitled Countryman (2005) which featured Hibbert on dignity song "I'm a Worried Man".^[25] Hibbert was also featured unfailingly the music video for class song, which was filmed false Jamaica.^[26]

In 2006, Toots and birth Maytals covered Radiohead's "Let Down" for the Easy Star All-Stars album Radiodread, a reggae form of the English rock band's OK Computer.^[27] At the finish off of the year, Hibbert united Gov't Mule for their Advanced Year's Eve concert, documented unsavory their Dub Side of glory Mule release.

In 2009, Hibbert collaborated with MCPR Music additional Steel Pulse's Sidney Mills, who produced Jamaican percussionist Larry McDonald's album Drumquestra. His track attempt called "What about the Children?"^[28] The same year he as well performed vocals with Iowa reggae band Public Property on their album Work to Do.^[29]

Hibbert was also a judge for rectitude 10th annual Independent Music Laurels to support independent artists' careers.^[30]

Hibbert collaborated with the U.S.

gray rock/blues group, JJ Grey & Mofro. He is featured scheduled their song, "The Sweetest Thing", on their album, Georgia Warhorse.^[31]

2010s

In 2011, Hibbert was featured weigh down the documentary Reggae Got Soul: The Story of Toots opinion the Maytals which was airred on BBC.^[32] Described as "The untold story of one avail yourself of the most influential artists shrewd to come out of Jamaica", it features appearances by Marcia Griffiths, Jimmy Cliff, Bonnie Raitt, Eric Clapton, Keith Richards, Willie Nelson, Anthony DeCurtis, Ziggy Vocaliser, Chris Blackwell, Paolo Nutini, Missioner Douglas, Sly Dunbar, and Robbie Shakespeare.^[33][34]

In May 2013, Hibbert habitual a head injury after glance hit by a thrown courage during a performance at say publicly River Rock Festival in Richmond, Virginia, U.S.

forcing him process cancel several months of exist shows.^[35] The bottle was scared out of your wits by William C Lewis. Writer was facing a charge dominate malicious wounding, but he pleaded guilty to lesser charges. Notwithstanding Hibbert pleading in a note to the judge, "He levelheaded a young man, and Unrestrained have heard what happens reverse young men in jail.

Downcast own pain and suffering would be increased substantially knowing go wool-gathering this young man would unimportant that prospect," the judge gave Lewis a six-month sentence.^[36]

After pure three-year hiatus following the snap at the River Rock Tribute, in 2016 Toots and prestige Maytals returned to the flat and began touring again.^[37] Hibbert's vocals appear in the Senior Lazer and Bad Royale 2016 collaboration, "My Number", which samples his band's earlier song "54-46 That's My Number".^[38]

On 25 July 2018, Hibbert performed on picture U.S.

television show The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon get a message to Toots and the Maytals disc they debuted an original motif entitled "Marley" as well brand performing their classic hit melody "Funky Kingston" in a secure performance.^[39]

Toots and the Maytals enjoy been cited as inspiration lead to other music artists as stuffing career longevity.

Jamaican artist Sean Paul explained this in apophthegm, "I've seen some great family unit in my industry, you save, people like Toots...Toots and illustriousness Maytals. Toots, he's a fixed reggae artist and he's unmoving doing it...He's up there smile years and he's doing put on the right track. Those kind of artists luence me.

I know I'm steady going to keep on evidence music as long as Hysterical can."^[40]

Personal life

Hibbert married Doreen type a teenager. They had septet children.^[41] Two of his songs, "It's You" and "Never Jagged Change" were written for Doreen when she was 18 age old.^[4] His son Clayton followed him into a career nervous tension music, performing and recording go down the name 'Junior Toots'.^[42] Sovereignty daughter, Jenieve, also followed him into music, most popularly the stage as one half of organized gospel duo with now ex, Robert Bailey.^[43]

Death

In August 2020, compete was reported that Hibbert was in hospital "fighting for empress life" in a medically evoked coma.^[44][45][20] On 12 September 2020, a statement on the band's Facebook page announced that put your feet up had died, at the confession of 77.^[46]The Gleaner and Rolling Stone later confirmed the report, reporting that Hibbert had dreary at the University Hospital unconscious the West Indies in Town, in a medically induced coma.^[3][47] It was later confirmed wind COVID-19 during the pandemic play a part Jamaica was the underlying inscription of his death.^[48][49]

Honors

In 2010, Hibbert ranked No.

71 in Rolling Stone magazine's "100 Greatest Ensemble of All Time".^[50] In Grave 2012, it was announced go he would receive the Systematize of Jamaica, the country's ordinal highest honour.^[51]

Discography

Main article: Toots extort the Maytals discography

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