Tuts Hibbert, one of Reggae’s founders and one of the most beloved stars with classics such as “Pressure Drop”, “Monkey Man” and “Funky Kingston” has died. He was 77 years old.
Hibbert, the frontman of Toots and Metals, was in a medical-loving coma at a hospital in Kingston earlier this month. He was admitted for intensive care following complaints of shortness of breath, according to his publicist. It has come out in the local media that the singer was waiting for the results of the COVID-19 test after showing symptoms.
News of the five-time Grammy nominee’s ill health came just weeks after her last known performance, on the national live stream during Jamaica’s liberation and independence celebrations in Time Gust.
A family statement said Himbert died Friday at the University Hospital of the West Indies in Kingston, Jamaica, surrounded by family.
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Ziggy Marley, son of Bob Marley, tweeted about the death he had spoken to Hibbert a few weeks ago and said, “I told him how much I love him and we share our mutual respect,” he added. , “He Was a Father to Me”
Muscular was a former boxer, Hibbert Bandlider, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and showman, whose ceremonies sometimes ended with dozens of spectators dancing with him on stage. He was, in the opinion of many, a great singer of reggae, so deeply spiritual he was able to transform it into the hymn “Do re me fa fa la la do”. His raspy terror, unusually hot and rough, was similar to the sound of Otis Redding and made him more ible accessible to the American audience than many reggae artists. Original songs such as “Funky Kingston” and “-4 54–46 That’s My Number” had a well-known spirit and call and response system for fans of the Spirit and the Gospel. Hibbert also recorded a record for the American hits album, Toots in Memphis, which was released in 1988.
Toots’ Hibbert and Metals 1 Formula 1 perform on the first stage of the Singapore Grand Prix on September 20, 2019 at the Marina Bay Street Circuit in Singapore.
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Never as immersed in politics as his friend and great contemporary Bob Marley, Hibbert sought heavenly justice in the “pressure drop”, preached peace in the “revolution”, preached peace in the “balm bomb” and was sentenced to arrest and imprisonment in the 1960’s. That’s my number. “Like many others, he captured everyday life in Jamaica in the years after independence from Britain in 1962, or a wedding stunt (called” Sweet and Dandy “) that was about trying to pay rent (” hard times “). Hibbert is well known for his work on John Denver’s gloomy “(Take Home) Country Roads”, the setting of which has changed from West Virginia to the rest of the world.
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Like other reggae stars, it soared after the release of Hibbert’s following 1972 film, The Harder the Come Come, starring Jimmy Cliff as a poor Jamaican who moved to Kingston and dreamed of a musical career. The formation of the Jamaican U.S. The soundtrack came in and the soundtrack, often ranked among the best in movie history, included Metals’ ‘Pressure Drop’ and ‘Sweet and Dandy’.
Hibbert, like himself, used to record “Sweet and Dandy” in the studio while watching Cliff’s character with surprise. At the same time, Metals signed with Island Records and released the acclaimed album “Funky Kingston”, which critic Lester Bangs calls “the most exciting and varied set of reggae tunes ever performed by a single artist.” (The album will eventually come out in two different versions)
In the mid-1970s, Keith Richards, John Lennon, Eric Clapton, and countless other rock stars became reggae fans, and Hibbert would eventually record with some of them. A 2004 tribute album, Grammy-winning “True Love”, starring Richards, Bonnie Wright, Ryan Amsdams and Jeff Beck. Hibbert was also the subject of a 2011 BBC documentary, “Reggae Got Soul,” featuring critics Clapton, Richards and Willie Nelson.
A guest appearance on “Saturday Night Live” in 2004 brought an unexpected fan to Hibbert, the show’s guest host Donald Trump, who recalled listening to a metal rehearsal in his book “Think Like a Billionaire”: “My daughter Ivanka told me how great it is. ? They were, and it was true. The music relieved me, and surprisingly, I wasn’t nervous. “
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Metals was originally a vocal trio featuring Hibbert, Henry “Raleigh” Gordon and Nathaniel “Jerry” Matthias, who were later added to the group by instrumentalists such as bassist Jackie Jackson and drummer Paul Douglas. They broke up in the early 1980s, but in the following decade Hibbert began working with a new lineup of metals.
Hibbert and Metals of Toots perform on stage in Hyde Park, London on 31 August 1974.
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Hidbert’s career took a turn for the worse in 2013 after he suffered a head injury from a vodka bottle thrown during a concert in Richmond, Virginia. But by the end of the decade, he was releasing again and in 2020 he released another album, “Got to Be Tough,” featuring contributions from Ziggly Marley and the Ringo Starrer, whose son, Zac Starkey, co-produced .
The Grammy nominations for Hibbert included Best Reggae Album of 2012 for “Reggae Got Soul” and Best Reggae Album of 2007 for “Light Your Light”. Hibbert was ranked 71st on the Rolling Stone List, one of the 100 greatest contemporary singers of 2008. In 2012, he received the Distinguished Distinction from the Jamaican government for his contribution to country music.
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Married to his wife, Doreen, for nearly 40 years, Hibbert had eight children, including reggae artist Jr. Hibbert and Leba Hibbert.
Frederick Nathaniel Hibbert (“Toots” was a childhood nickname) was born in the parish of May Penn, Clarendon. He was the son of Seventh-day Vent Dentist ministers and remembered private moments with the dusty roads leading to school, hours of singing in church at Mass and listening to American stars like Ray Charles and Elvis Presley.
As a teenager, his parents died and he moved to Trench Town, Kingston, where the local music scene was rich, moving from street parties to recording studios and drawing future stars like Bob Marley and Desmond Decker. He created Metals, named for his hometown, began working with fellow singers Mthias and Gordon, Jamaican record producer Coxson Dodd, and quickly became the star of a national festival competition that began in 1966. Metals (eventually renamed Toots and Metals) won the opening year with “Balm Balm”, 1969 with “Sweet and Dandy” and 1972 with “Pompo and Pride”. Hibbert would joke that he thought it best to start leaving the festival because winning came so easily, even though it was a bright, inspiring “Rise Up Jamaica” in 2020.
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Metals originated when Ska was the most popular music, growing during the transition to slow-moving rocksteads, and was far ahead of the faster, more danceable sound of the late 60’s. His te ptempo chant “Do Reggae” is widely known as the song that gave Reggae its name, even though the honor was unintentional.
“If a girl doesn’t look so good or she’s not dressed properly, we’ll say she’s a Strag. I was playing one day and I don’t know why I started singing: ‘Reggae, reggae’ – it stopped, “he told the Daily Star in 2012,” I would have stopped calling him Stragay if I had Do not think until. It will be something – every stage dances to the music. “
The Associated Press contributes to this report.
