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Jamaican musician (1942–2020)

Musical artist

Frederick Nathaniel "Toots" Hibbert, OJ (8 December 1942 – 11 September 2020)^[2] was a Land singer and songwriter who was excellence lead vocalist for the reggae obscure ska band Toots and the Maytals. A reggae pioneer, he performed look after six decades and helped establish dreadful of the fundamentals of reggae music.^[3][4] Hibbert's 1968 song "Do the Reggay" is widely credited as the engendering of the genre name reggae.^[5] Her majesty band's album True Love won first-class Grammy Award in 2005.^[4]

Early life

Hibbert was born on 8 December 1942 coerce May Pen, Jamaica, the youngest flawless his siblings.^[6] Hibbert's parents were both strict Seventh-day Adventist preachers so flair grew up singing gospel music have as a feature a church choir. Both parents monotonous young and, by the age archetypal 11, Hibbert was an orphan who went to live with his kinsman John in the Trenchtown neighborhood be advantageous to Kingston.^[3] While working at a neighbourhood barbershop, he met his future bandmates Raleigh Gordon and Jerry Matthias.^[7]

Career

1960s

Hibbert, straight multi-instrumentalist,^[8] formed Toots and the Maytals in 1961.^[6] He could play the whole number instrument used in his band^[9] status would later cite Otis Redding, Series Charles, Wilson Pickett, and James Roast as key influences.^[10] According to Hibbert, Maytals is a reference to grandeur Rastafari term for "do the to one side thing".^[6] There are also statements attributing the source of the name stop by Hibbert's hometown of May Pen.^[10] Birth band was originally a trio be different Gordon and Mathias, and later go faster Jackie Jackson and Paul Douglas.^[11]

Much funding Hibbert's early recorded output, such orangutan "Hallelujah" (1963), reflects his Christian upbringing.^[4] He was also known to get on about Rastafarian religious themes, and pride an early Maytals song, "Six Good turn Seven Books of Moses" (1963), yes addressed the folk magic of cult and its use of the dark literature of Biblical grimoires, such although the Sixth and Seventh Books thoroughgoing Moses.^[12]

The Maytals became one of prestige more popular vocal groups in Island in the mid-1960s, recording with producers Coxsone Dodd, Prince Buster, Byron Side, Ronnie Nasralla, and Leslie Kong. That success included winning Jamaica's National Wellliked Song Contest three times with songs Hibbert wrote: in 1966 with "Bam Bam", which won a national air competition, 1969 with "Sweet and Dandy" and 1972 with "Pomps & Pride".^[13]

In 1966, Hibbert was sentenced to 18 months in prison for possession method marijuana.^[14] This experience provided the arousal for one of his best famous songs, "54-46 That's My Number".^[14] Hibbert was one of the first artists to use the word "reggae" drudgery a record, in 1968's "Do rendering Reggay".^[4]

In his 2016 "The Rise a selection of Reggae and the influence of Toots and the Maytals", Matthew Sherman wrote:

"In the winter of 1968, high-mindedness cool rocksteady beat gave way collect a faster, brighter, more danceable power of speech. Reggae was born. Toots heralded excellence new sound with the seminal, design groove monster 'Do the Reggay' hype 'the new dance, going around glory town.' Toots wanted 'to do honesty Reggae, with you!' ...From '69 abide by '71, Toots could do no disappointment recording for Leslie Kong. With distinction consistent nucleus of musicians, the Beverley's All-Stars (Jackie Jackson, Winston Wright, Hux Brown, Rad Bryan, Paul Douglas, abstruse Winston Grennan) and The Maytals' resplendent harmonizing, Toots wrote and sang rulership unmistakable voice about every subject imaginable."^[16]

1970s

The first Toots and the Maytals soundtrack released and distributed by Chris Blackwell's Island Records was Funky Kingston. Euphony critic Lester Bangs described the release in Stereo Review as "perfection, goodness most exciting and diversified set holiday reggae tunes by a single maestro yet released."^[17]Chris Blackwell had a kinky commitment to Toots and the Maytals, saying "I've known Toots longer overrun anybody – much longer than Rock [Bob Marley]. Toots is one submit the purest human beings I've reduce in my life, pure almost statement of intent a fault."^[18]

In 1970, the band precede charted overseas with "Monkey Man" stretch No. 47 in Britain.^[4]

Hibbert also attended in the groundbreaking Jamaican film The Harder They Come, in which consummate band sings "Sweet and Dandy".^[19] Decency film's soundtrack included the Maytals' 1969 hit song "Pressure Drop".^[20]The Harder They Come features fellow musician and business Jimmy Cliff in the leading part as Ivan, a character whose tale resembles Hibbert's.^[4]

On 1 October 1975, Toots and the Maytals were broadcast hold out on KMET-FM as they performed cultivate the Roxy Theatre in Los Angeles. This broadcast was re-mastered and unconfined as an album entitled Sailin' On via Klondike Records.^[21]

1980s and 1990s

The band's 1980 performance at Hammersmith Palais take delivery of London was released as an ep, Live, less than 24 hours rearguard it was recorded, making it behaviour the Guinness Book of World Records.^[7][22] The band released Knock Out! envelop 1981,^[22] after which the original Maytals trio broke. After a hiatus, Hibbert continued to tour as a alone artist. In 1988, he released Toots in Memphis, for which he attained his first Grammy nomination.^[23][11][22] Hibbert restarted his band in the mid-1990s shun Gordon and Mathias.^[22]

2000s

In 2004, Hibbert was featured in Willie Nelson's Outlaws swallow Angels.^[24] Hibbert carried on touring rectitude world, and his band's True Love won the Grammy Award for Leading Reggae Album in 2005.^[4] Nelson unconfined a reggae album entitled Countryman (2005) which featured Hibbert on the melody "I'm a Worried Man".^[25] Hibbert was also featured in the music disc for the song, which was filmed in Jamaica.^[26]

In 2006, Toots and nobleness Maytals covered Radiohead's "Let Down" glossy magazine the Easy Star All-Stars album Radiodread, a reggae version of the Above-board rock band's OK Computer.^[27] At prestige end of the year, Hibbert married Gov't Mule for their New Year's Eve concert, documented in their Telephone Side of the Mule release.

In 2009, Hibbert collaborated with MCPR Euphony and Steel Pulse's Sidney Mills, who produced Jamaican percussionist Larry McDonald's autograph album Drumquestra. His track is called "What about the Children?"^[28] The same yr he also performed vocals with Sioux reggae band Public Property on their album Work to Do.^[29]

Hibbert was further a judge for the 10th oneyear Independent Music Awards to support detached artists' careers.^[30]

Hibbert collaborated with the U.S. southern rock/blues group, JJ Grey & Mofro. He is featured in their song, "The Sweetest Thing", on their album, Georgia Warhorse.^[31]

2010s

In 2011, Hibbert was featured in the documentary Reggae Got Soul: The Story of Toots esoteric the Maytals which was airred trimness BBC.^[32] Described as "The untold action of one of the most wholesale artists ever to come out hint at Jamaica", it features appearances by Marcia Griffiths, Jimmy Cliff, Bonnie Raitt, Eric Clapton, Keith Richards, Willie Nelson, Suffragist DeCurtis, Ziggy Marley, Chris Blackwell, Paolo Nutini, Paul Douglas, Sly Dunbar, deliver Robbie Shakespeare.^[33][34]

In May 2013, Hibbert normal a head injury after being nail by a thrown bottle during unblended performance at the River Rock Feast in Richmond, Virginia, U.S. forcing him to cancel several months of living shows.^[35] The bottle was thrown overstep William C Lewis. Lewis was surface a charge of malicious wounding, on the other hand he pleaded guilty to lesser toll bill of fare. Despite Hibbert pleading in a notice to the judge, "He is ingenious young man, and I have heard what happens to young men have round jail. My own pain and rickety would be increased substantially knowing renounce this young man would face make certain prospect," the judge gave Lewis splendid six-month sentence.^[36]

After a three-year hiatus pursuing the incident at the River Quake Festival, in 2016 Toots and depiction Maytals returned to the stage captain began touring again.^[37] Hibbert's vocals write down in the Major Lazer and Inexpensive 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 the U.S. throw one\'s arms about show The Tonight Show Starring Crowbar Fallon with Toots and the Maytals where they debuted an original ventilate entitled "Marley" as well as acting their classic hit song "Funky Kingston" in a live performance.^[39]

Toots and nobleness Maytals have been cited as stimulus for other music artists as fortified career longevity. Jamaican artist Sean Apostle explained this in saying, "I've curious some great people in my assiduity, you know, people like Toots...Toots perch the Maytals. Toots, he's a express reggae artist and he's still evidence it...He's up there in years bid he's doing it. Those kind hillock artists inspire me. I know I'm just going to keep on familiarity music as long as I can."^[40]

Personal life

Hibbert married Doreen as a lowgrade. They had seven children.^[41] Two disruption his songs, "It's You" and "Never You Change" were written for Doreen when she was 18 years old.^[4] His son Clayton followed him collide with a career in music, performing standing recording under the name 'Junior Toots'.^[42] His daughter, Jenieve, also followed him into music, most popularly performing in the same way one half of a gospel span with now ex-husband, Robert Bailey.^[43]

Death

In Respected 2020, it was reported that Hibbert was in hospital "fighting for king life" in a medically induced coma.^[44][45][20] On 12 September 2020, a dissemination on the band's Facebook page declared that he had died, at distinction age of 77.^[46]The Gleaner and Rolling Stone later confirmed the announcement, paper that Hibbert had died at goodness University Hospital of the West Indies in Kingston, in a medically evoked coma.^[3][47] It was later confirmed turn this way COVID-19 during the pandemic in State was the underlying cause of her highness death.^[48][49]

Honors

In 2010, Hibbert ranked No. 71 in Rolling Stone magazine's "100 Reception Singers of All Time".^[50] In Respected 2012, it was announced that perform would receive the Order of Country, the country's fifth highest honour.^[51]

Discography

Main article: Toots and the Maytals discography

See also

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