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R.I.P. Toots Hibbert, reggae pioneer - The A.V. Club
Sep 12, 2020 55 secs
One of the pioneers of reggae music, and one of the longest and hardest working performers in the world of music, period, Toots Hibbert won Grammys, inspired generations to embrace the reggae sound, and helped put Jamaican music on the map in the mid-20th century.

Born in Jamaica—and orphaned at a young age—Hibbert joined with Ralphus “Raleigh” Gordon and Nathaniel “Jerry” Matthias to form The Maytals (later Toots And The Maytals) in 1962, launching a band that would one day be described by critic Robert Christgau as “The Beatles to The Wailers’ Rolling Stones.” Originally a vocal trio, the band steadily added instrumentalists to its lineup, winning the Jamaican Independence Festival Popular Song Contest in 1966 with “Bam Bam” (a feat they’d repeat two times in the future).

He also showed a marked interest in collaboration, teaming up with any number of groups who’d been influenced by the Maytals in the first place—most notably for greatest hits collection True Love in 2004, which saw the band recreate many of their greatest hits alongside everyone from Eric Clapton to The Roots to No Doubt.

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