In 2011, Jamaican writer and activist Dutty Bookman coined the phrase “reggae revival” to describe artists like Protoje, Chronixx, Jah9, Kabaka Pyramid, Jesse Royal, and others who tended to favor ...
Jamaica’s ground-breaking Reggae Sunsplash festival returns this weekend for the first-ever virtual staging of the event featuring a special tribute honouring the late reggae icon, Dennis Emmanuel ...
Jamaican Reggae legend Frederick Nathaniel “Toots” Hibbert passed away last night, which was confirmed by his band Toots & The Maytals. He was 77 years old. “It is with the heaviest of hearts to ...
Jamaica’s tourism sector received a significant boost this summer due to its popular annual music festival, Reggae Sumfest. Iconic Montego Bay Music Festival Attracts Numerous Visitors to Island ...
A unique voice fell silent on the evening of September 11, when pioneering reggae singer/songwriter “Toots” Hibbert, best known as the front man for the band Toots and the Maytals, passed away at the ...
NEW YORK (AP) — 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,” ...
Jamaican reggae legend Frederick Nathaniel “Toots” Hibbert has died aged 77, his band Toots and The Maytals said in a statement early Saturday. Hibbert “passed away peacefully” in Jamaica “surrounded ...
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Tamara Nisbeth wants you to know that Reggae Pot signifies reggae music paired with savory food in pots. “Not that kind of pot. We don’t put weed in our food,” she notes. Which is kind of ironic, ...
Toots Hibbert, the charismatic reggae singer and bandleader who helped transform the groove-driven sound of 1960s Jamaica into an international musical movement, has died. He was 77. Hibbert, frontman ...
Toots Hibbert, the co-founder and lead singer of Toots and the Maytals, was one of the most distinctive and important voices of reggae and one of its founding fathers. One of the biggest voices in ...
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