Reggae singer Junior Toots says he is gearing up for a massive year in 2025 with a tribute album to his late father, Reggae legend Toots Hibbert, atop his itinerary.
Nearly 55 years after its release, Pressure Drop, the seminal reggae hit by Toots & The Maytals, is now certified Silver in the United Kingdom.
Toots & The Maytals’ 1973 Reggae cover of John Denver’s Take Me Home, Country Roads is included on the soundtrack for Mark Wahlberg’s new action comedy, The Family Plan.
Toots and The Maytals‘ genre-defining hit 54-46 Was My Number was certified Gold in the United Kingdom on what would have been the band’s frontman Toot Hibberts’ 81st birthday.
In an enchanting intersection of the postapocalyptic and the timeless, the 1963 Ska hit I’ll Never Grow Old by Reggae band Toots & The Maytals is one of the “biggest songs” featured in the Netflix series Sweet Tooth, a fantasy-drama that has just completed its second season.
Toots and The Maytals‘ genre-defining hit 54-46 Was My Number surpassed 100 million streams on Spotify on Friday (April 14), the Reggae band’s first song to do so.
Toots Hibbert’s mega-hit song 54-46 Was My Number, which he wrote while imprisoned in Jamaica, has been featured in Levi’s ‘Greatest Story Ever Worn,’ a global ad campaign celebrating the 150th anniversary of the brand’s 501 Jeans.
Toots & The Maytals’ 1973 Reggae cover of John Denver’s Take Me Home, Country Roads was featured in Netflix’s latest movie Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery.
Toots Hibbert’s daughter Leba Hibbert is now the lead singer of the new Toots and the Maytals band, according to the Hibbert family’s D&F Production company.
Cabel Stephenson, the former manager of the late Toots Hibbert, survived a serious car accident in the Harbour View area of Kingston last night.
The Toots Hibbert estate has lost a major copyright battle in the Supreme Court against producer-manager Cabel Stephenson regarding an album that the late ska and reggae singer had worked on, in the capacity of producer-musician, with Reggae artist Droop Lion before his death.
Bam Bam — a 1982 hit by legendary Dancehall singer Sister Nancy — surged to No. 1 on Reggae song charts after it was featured in an episode of Netflix's popular crime drama, Ozark, which was released over the weekend.
The estate of the legendary Reggae singer Frederick “Toots” Hibbert has reached an out-of-court settlement with the members of his former backing band over the use of the Maytals name.
Dancehall superstar Sean Paul has revealed that he wept bitterly after learning of the news of Reggae pioneer Toots’ death, in September last year, and also regrets that they had never made a song together.
Since its inception, no decade in Dancehall has received louder ovations or condemnation than the ’90s.
The legal team representing one of the executors of the Toots Hibbert estate is making moves to pursue legal redress over rights and royalties from the Toots & The Maytals’ song Bam Bam.
Veteran Dancehall/Reggae singer Sister Nancy has one more reason to celebrate her legendary rendition of Bam Bam.
The 11th of September 2020 will forever be a sad day in the memory of Toots Hibbert’s fans around the world but even more so in the minds of his loving family.
The family of Reggae icon Toots Hibbert have said that they had nothing to do with the cancellation of a tribute concert featuring The Maytals Band and several international stars to celebrate the life of the Toots & The Maytals frontman, who passed away on September 11, 2020 at the age of 77.
Al Hardwicke Kassi, head of the booking agency Midnight Mango, is expressing regret that a special tribute concert set for September in the UK to honour the late Toots Hibbert will have to be cancelled after the Europe-based booking agency Midnight Mango Ltd received a cease and desist letter from the lawyers for the executors of the Frederick (Toots) Hibbert estate.