Toots Hibbert Reggae Foundation Father is Dead!
Martin’s International and IRAWMA condolences to his family…
(Sept 22, 2020) On behalf of Martin’s International, the IRAWMA (International Reggae and World Music Awards ), and the reggae and world music fraternity our deepest and sincerest condolences to the family, friends and associates of reggae legend Toots Hibbert.
Frederick Nathaniel “Toots” Hibbert, O.J., the multi-winner of several IRAWMA (International Reggae and World Music Awards) over the last 38 years, an Inductee to the IRAWMA Hall of Fame/Lifetime Award, and a recipient of “TheReggae50”, Award, fifty years of reggae from Martin’s International at the 37th IRAWMA in Jamaica last year. A Grammy Award winner, and a finalist in the recently held Jamaican Festival Song Contest, in which Buju Banton won the contest, and gave credit to Toots and others. Toots, along with Eric Donaldson has championed the annual contest over the years…https://www.youtube.com/embed/n4Bv4JbSm9I?wmode=opaque
The Jamaican singer and songwriter, leader for the reggae and ska band Toots & the Maytals, whose1968 song “Do the Reggay” is widely credited as the birth of the name for reggae music.
Hibbert was born in May Pen, Parish of Clarendon, Jamaica, the youngest of eight children. Hibbert’s parents were both strict Seventh-day Adventist preachers so he grew up singing gospel music in a church choir. Both parents died young and by 11, Toots was an orphan who went to live with his brother John in the Trench Town neighborhood of Kingston. In 1962, while working at a local barbershop, he was heard singing inside by Ralphus “Raleigh” Gordon and Nathaniel “Jerry” Matthias. They would become a trio forming The Maytals — which was named after Hibbert’s hometown of May Pen.
The legendary reggae master made his transition last Friday, September 11, 2020 at age 77.
Among his favorite songs are 5446, Monkey Man, I Got Dreams and Reggae Got Soul.
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