When Toots Hibbert (1942-2020) passed away on September 11, the music world lost a colossal talent. Hibbert got his start in Jamaica in the early ’60s and, after forming Toots & The Maytals, began ...

Roots reggae icons Toots and the Maytals have announced a new album. It’s called Got to Be Tough and it arrives August 28 (via Trojan Jamaica/BMG). Listen to the LP’s title track below. “Got to Be ...

Toots and the Maytals have shared a new single, “Warning Warning,” following the group’s return to music earlier this year with the song “Got to Be Tough.” Just as Frederick “Toots” Hibbert issued ...

Toots Hibbert, Jamaica’s answer to James Brown, is 80 years old and still cranking out music that sounds as fresh as his original records in the mid-1960s. His latest under the Toots and the Maytals ...

The music world lost an all-time great on Sept. 11, 2020, when Toots Hibbert died in Jamaica at the age of 77. After breaking through with Toots & the Maytals in the early ’60s, Hibbert’s massive ...

Frederick Nathaniel “Toots” Hibbert, the Grammy-winning Jamaican singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and leader of reggae/rocksteady/ska band Toots & the Maytals, has died at age 77. The tragic ...

In early 1973, reggae was little more than a rumor in North America. Bob Marley hadn’t yet signed with Island Records, and few mainlanders could identify as reggae the funky island beat behind Johnny ...

Frederick “Toots” Hibbert, frontman of the pioneering reggae outfit Toots and the Maytals and one of the greatest voices in popular music, died Friday evening at the age of 77. “It is with the ...

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," "Monkey Man" and ...

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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,” ...