Reggae star Toots Hibbert has died. He was 77. The singer died in Jamaica on Friday, according to a statement released on social media by his band, Toots and The Maytals. “It is with the heaviest of ...

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 ...

The post R.I.P. Toots Hibbert, Reggae Pioneer and Frontman of Toots & The Maytals Dies at 77 appeared first on Consequence of Sound. Frederick Nathaniel “Toots” Hibbert, founder of the pioneering ...

In our last interview, I asked Toots Hibbert what he wanted to be remembered for. Of course, I didn’t know at the time that it would be our last interview. Last month, on September 11, Frederick ...

Frederick “Toots” Hibbert, one of the pioneers of reggae, a genre he is credited with naming, has died at age 77. He died Friday night at University Hospital of the West Indies in Kingston, Jamaica.

Mick Jagger has paid tribute to Frederick “Toots” Hibbert, calling the death of the Maytals singer “a great loss to the whole music world.” “So sad to hear of Toots Hibbert’s passing,” Jagger wrote on ...

Toots Hibbert, a founder of reggae who coined the term for the music genre and helped build it into an international movement, died Friday. He was 77. He had been in a medically induced coma at a ...

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 ...

NEW YORK — 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, one of reggae's founders and most beloved stars who gave the music its name and later helped make it an international movement, has died. By The Associated Press Toots Hibbert, one of ...

The death of reggae pioneer Frederick “Toots” Hibbert, who fronted Toots and the Maytals, is prompting heartfelt praise from fellow musicians and fans of hits like “Pressure Drop,” “Monkey Man,” and ...