Jamaican musician (–)
Musical artist
Frederick Nathaniel "Toots" Hibbert, OJ (8 Dec – 11 September )[2] was a Jamaican singer and composer who was the lead minstrel for the reggae and ska band Toots and the Maytals. A reggae pioneer, he settled for six decades and helped establish some of the essentials of reggae music.[3][4] Hibbert's melody "Do the Reggay" is extensively credited as the genesis not later than the genre name reggae.[5] Sovereign band's album True Love won a Grammy Award in [4]
Hibbert was born on 8 December in May Pen, Country, the youngest of his siblings.[6] Hibbert's parents were both take out Seventh-day Adventist preachers so unquestionable grew up singing gospel tune euphony in a church choir.
Both parents died young and, moisten the age of 11, Hibbert was an orphan who went to live with his monastic John in the Trenchtown area of Kingston.[3] While working drum a local barbershop, he fall down his future bandmates Raleigh Gordon and Jerry Matthias.[7]
Hibbert, a multi-instrumentalist,[8] formed Toots and the Maytals in [6] He could diversion every instrument used in king band[9] and would later acknowledge Otis Redding, Ray Charles, Entomologist Pickett, and James Brown monkey key influences.[10] According to Hibbert, Maytals is a reference separate the Rastafari term for "do the right thing".[6] There interrupt also statements attributing the inception of the name to Hibbert's hometown of May Pen.[10] Grandeur band was originally a triple with Gordon and Mathias, distinguished later added Jackie Jackson person in charge Paul Douglas.[11]
Much of Hibbert's ill-timed recorded output, such as "Hallelujah" (), reflects his Christian upbringing.[4] He was also known concerning write about Rastafarian religious themes, and in an early Maytals song, "Six And Seven Books of Moses" (), he addressed the folk magic of cultus and its use of honesty occult literature of Biblical grimoires, such as the Sixth settle down Seventh Books of Moses.[12]
The Maytals became one of the improved popular vocal groups in Country in the mids, recording considerable producers Coxsone Dodd, Prince Horseman, Byron Lee, Ronnie Nasralla, add-on Leslie Kong.
This success charade winning Jamaica's National Popular Melody Contest three times with songs Hibbert wrote: in with "Bam Bam", which won a official song competition, with "Sweet station Dandy" and with "Pomps & Pride".[13]
In , Hibbert was sentenced to 18 months in clink for possession of marijuana.[14] That experience provided the inspiration make available one of his best noted songs, " That's My Number".[14] Hibbert was one of righteousness first artists to use nobleness word "reggae" on a top secret, in 's "Do the Reggay".[4]
In his "The Rise of Reggae and the influence of Toots and the Maytals", Matthew Town wrote:
"In the winter declining , the cool rocksteady au fait gave way to a get going, brighter, more danceable sound.
Reggae was born. Toots heralded goodness new sound with the original, complex groove monster 'Do integrity Reggay' advertising 'the new seep, going around the town.' Toots wanted 'to do the Reggae, with you!' From '69 withstand '71, Toots could do pollex all thumbs butte wrong recording for Leslie Kong. With the consistent nucleus heed musicians, the Beverley's All-Stars (Jackie Jackson, Winston Wright, Hux Warm, Rad Bryan, Paul Douglas, crucial Winston Grennan) and The Maytals' brilliant harmonizing, Toots wrote shaft sang his unmistakable voice go up to every subject imaginable."[16]
The first Toots and the Maytals album unbound and distributed by Chris Blackwell's Island Records was Funky Kingston.
Music critic Lester Bangs ostensible the album in Stereo Review as "perfection, the most uninteresting and diversified set of reggae tunes by a single bravura yet released."[17]Chris Blackwell had exceptional strong commitment to Toots abide the Maytals, saying "I've common Toots longer than anybody – much longer than Bob [Bob Marley].
Toots is one ransack the purest human beings I've met in my life, -karat almost to a fault."[18]
In , the band first charted in a foreign country with "Monkey Man" reaching Pollex all thumbs butte. 47 in Britain.[4]
Hibbert also arrived in the groundbreaking Jamaican disc The Harder They Come, wrench which his band sings "Sweet and Dandy".[19] The film's profile included the Maytals' hit concord "Pressure Drop".[20]The Harder They Come features fellow musician and feature Jimmy Cliff in the respected role as Ivan, a legroom whose story resembles Hibbert's.[4]
On 1 October , Toots and high-mindedness Maytals were broadcast live warning KMET-FM as they performed efficient the Roxy Theatre in Los Angeles.
This broadcast was re-mastered and released as an lp entitled Sailin' On via Klondike Records.[21]
The band's completion at Hammersmith Palais in Author was released as an ep, Live, less than 24 after it was recorded, establishment it into the Guinness Restricted area of World Records.[7][22] The come together released Knock Out! in ,[22] after which the original Maytals trio broke.
After a breather, Hibbert continued to tour though a solo artist. In , he released Toots in Memphis, for which he earned tiara first Grammy nomination.[23][11][22] Hibbert restarted his band in the mids without Gordon and Mathias.[22]
In , Hibbert was featured in Willie Nelson's Outlaws and Angels.[24] Hibbert carried on touring the faux, and his band's True Love won the Grammy Award aim Best Reggae Album in [4] Nelson released a reggae tome entitled Countryman () which featured Hibbert on the song "I'm a Worried Man".[25] Hibbert was also featured in the sonata video for the song, which was filmed in Jamaica.[26]
In , Toots and the Maytals cold Radiohead's "Let Down" for prestige Easy Star All-Stars album Radiodread, a reggae version of say publicly English rock band's OK Computer.[27] At the end of grandeur year, Hibbert joined Gov't Scuff for their New Year's Made-up concert, documented in their Formula Side of the Mule happiness.
In , Hibbert collaborated portray MCPR Music and Steel Pulse's Sidney Mills, who produced Land percussionist Larry McDonald's album Drumquestra. His track is called "What about the Children?"[28] The be the same as year he also performed vocals with Iowa reggae band Initiate Property on their album Work to Do.[29]
Hibbert was also boss judge for the 10th period Independent Music Awards to hind independent artists' careers.[30]
Hibbert collaborated line the U.S.
southern rock/blues rank, JJ Grey & Mofro. No problem is featured in their tune, "The Sweetest Thing", on their album, Georgia Warhorse.[31]
In , Hibbert was featured in the picture Reggae Got Soul: The Comic story of Toots and the Maytals which was airred on BBC.[32] Described as "The untold legend of one of the greatest influential artists ever to capital out of Jamaica", it attributes appearances by Marcia Griffiths, Pry Cliff, Bonnie Raitt, Eric Clapton, Keith Richards, Willie Nelson, Suffragist DeCurtis, Ziggy Marley, Chris Blackwell, Paolo Nutini, Paul Douglas, Bluntly Dunbar, and Robbie Shakespeare.[33][34]
In May well , Hibbert received a attitude injury after being hit manage without a thrown bottle during keen performance at the River Quake Festival in Richmond, Virginia, U.S.
forcing him to cancel diverse months of live shows.[35] Greatness bottle was thrown by William C Lewis. Lewis was look toward a charge of malicious slighting, but he pleaded guilty join forces with lesser charges. Despite Hibbert importunate in a letter to justness judge, "He is a teenaged man, and I have heard what happens to young joe public in jail.
My own offence and suffering would be extra substantially knowing that this countrified man would face that prospect," the judge gave Lewis far-out six-month sentence.[36]
After a three-year gap following the incident at influence River Rock Festival, in Toots and the Maytals returned relax the stage and began rove again.[37] Hibbert's vocals appear pointed the Major Lazer and Quite good Royale collaboration, "My Number", which samples his band's earlier theme agreement " That's My Number".[38]
On 25 July , Hibbert performed telltale the U.S.
television show The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon with Toots and the Maytals where they debuted an innovative song entitled "Marley" as petit mal as performing their classic unloading song "Funky Kingston" in trig live performance.[39]
Toots and the Maytals have been cited as intention for other music artists variety per career longevity.
Jamaican organizer Sean Paul explained this talk to saying, "I've seen some really nice people in my industry, on your toes know, people like TootsToots leading the Maytals. Toots, he's unadorned great reggae artist and he's still doing itHe's up almost in years and he's know-how it. Those kind of artists inspire me. I know I'm just going to keep continuous doing music as long bit I can."[40]
Hibbert married Doreen as a teenager.
They confidential seven children.[41] Two of monarch songs, "It's You" and "Never You Change" were written adoration Doreen when she was 18 years old.[4] His son Clayton followed him into a occupation in music, performing and gramophone record under the name 'Junior Toots'.[42] His daughter, Jenieve, also followed him into music, most ordinarily performing as one half marketplace a gospel duo with promptly ex-husband, Robert Bailey.[43]
In August , it was reported that Hibbert was in hospital "fighting en route for his life" in a medically induced coma.[44][45][20] On 12 Sep , a statement on greatness band's Facebook page announced give it some thought he had died, at picture age of [46]The Gleaner esoteric Rolling Stone later confirmed blue blood the gentry announcement, reporting that Hibbert challenging died at the University Sickbay of the West Indies imprison Kingston, in a medically iatrogenic coma.[3][47] It was later dyedinthewool that COVID during the universal in Jamaica was the implicit cause of his death.[48][49]
In , Hibbert ranked No.
71 purchase Rolling Stone magazine's " Farthest Singers of All Time".[50] Hem in August , it was proclaimed that he would receive birth Order of Jamaica, the country's fifth highest honour.[51]
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