Toots

LC control no.	n 91129149
Descriptive conventions	rda
Personal name heading	Toots *Browse this term in* LC Authorities or the LC Catalog
Variant(s)	Hibbert, Toots Hibbert, Frederick Nathaniel Hibbert, Frederick "Toots"
See also	Corporate body: Maytals (Musical group) *Browse this term in* LC Authorities Corporate body: Toots and the Maytals (Musical group) *Browse this term in* LC Authorities
Associated country	Jamaica
Birth date	1942-12-08 [1942,1945,1946]
Death date	2020-09-11
Place of birth	Clarendon (Jamaica)
Place of death	Kingston (Jamaica)
Field of activity	Reggae music Ska (Music) Rocksteady (Music)
Profession or occupation	Singers Reggae musicians Composers
Found in	His Toots in Memphis [SR] p1988: label (Toots) container insert (Toots Hibbert) Toots. That's my number [SR] 1998: insert (Frederick Toots Hibbert) Toots. The very best of Toots & the Maytals [SR] p1997: label (Toots) insert (Frederick "Toots" Hibbert; b. 1946, May Pen, west of Kingston; vocalist) Int. ww in pop. mus., 13th ed. (Hibbert, Frederick "Toots"; born Clarendon; Jamaican reggae singer; lead singer of the Maytals, 1962-, later renamed Toots and the Maytals) Oxford music online, March 26, 2013: Enc. of popular music, 4th ed. (under Maytals: Frederick "Toots" Hibbert; born 1945, May Pen, Jamaica, West Indies) Wikipedia, March 26, 2013 (Toots Hibbert; born Frederick Nathaniel Hibbert, December 8, 1942, May Pen, Jamaica; Jamaican singer and songwriter, known as the leader for the reggae and ska band Toots & the Maytals) Gale Biography in Context, March 26, 2013: Contemporary Black biography (Toots Hibbert; born Frederick Nathaniel Hibbert, December 10, 1946, May Pen, Clarendon, Jamaica; reggae singer) Toots and the Maytals WWW site, March 26, 2013: homepage (November 29, [2012]: Toots celebrates his 70th birthday at the Capitol Theatre in Portchester, NY, December 7th) Wikipedia, Apr. 20, 2018 (Toots and the Maytals, originally called The Maytals, are a Jamaican musical group and one of the best known ska and rocksteady vocal groups. The Maytals were formed in the early 1960s and were key figures in popularizing reggae music; frontman Frederick "Toots" Hibbert; renamed Toots & the Maytals after Leslie Kong's death in 1971) <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toots_and_the_Maytals> The New York Times, Toots Hibbert, a father of reggae, is dead, September 12, 2020, viewed online September 12, 2020 (Toots Hibbert, one of the fathers of reggae music, died on Friday night [September 11] in Kingston, Jamaica; singer and songwriter; believed to be 77; first artist to use the word reggae on a record, in 1968 single "Do the Reggay" by his group, the Maytals; Mr. Hibbert; born (sources differ, but his representatives say it was Dec. 8, 1942) in rural town of May Pen, Jamaica; youngest of several children, given nickname Little Toots by a brother; toured frequently until 2013, when a bottle thrown onstage gave him a concussion, keeping him off the road for three years; Toots and the Maytals released "Got to Be Tough" in August, his first studio album in a decade)
Associated language	eng