This year has already claimed two of Reggae’s most prolific pioneers, (Bunny Wailer, U-Roy) and the Jamaican authorities have amped up their efforts to pay tribute to the genre’s greats.
The reggae band Toots and the Maytals got a fillip in sales following their win for Best Reggae Album at the 63rd Grammy Awards on March 14.
Leba Hibbert, daughter of two-time Grammy Award winner Toots Hibbert, has vowed to keep her father’s legacy alive.
Cressida Rattigan, the granddaughter of two-time Grammy winner Toots Hibbert, and one of the co-executors of his estate, is celebrating her grandfather’s recent Grammy success for his final album, Got To Be Tough.
The family of Jamaican Reggae icon the Honourable Frederick ‘Toots’ Hibbert, OD, OJ is happy that he, won the 2021 Grammy Award for the Best Reggae Album with Got To Be Tough on Sunday.
The late Reggae legend Toots Hibbert and his band, Toots and the Maytals have emerged as the winners of the 2021 Grammy Award for Best Reggae Album.
Though Dancehall music continues to be snubbed by the music industry’s chief recording academies, anticipation nonetheless will finally come to a head tomorrow for the 2021 Grammy Awards.
Reggae great Toots Hibbert was not among those named on Wednesday when the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame announced its list of nominees for induction for 2021 on Wednesday.
Jamaican award winning actor and playwright David Heron has completed production as the narrator of ‘A Reggae King Rises Again’, Rolling Stone Magazine’s new audio podcast tribute to Jamaican reggae legend and Grammy Award-winning musician Frederick ‘Toots’ Hibbert.
The year 2020 is one that will live in infamy. It was the year of the death of Kobe Bryant, the year of the COVID-19 pandemic, the US presidential elections, and it also marked the transitioning of several reggae artistes and popular entertainment figures.
Late reggae pioneer Frederick ‘Toots’ Hibbert, and Jamaican business mogul Gordon ‘Butch’ Stewart, will be posthumously honoured with the Keys to the City of Kingston.
The 2021 Grammy Awards will no longer take place this month in Los Angeles and will instead be broadcast in March due to a recent surge in coronavirus cases and deaths.
Today, reggae legend Frederick ‘Toots’ Hibbert would have celebrated his 78th birthday. Usually, at this time of the year, there would be a large gathering at his home in Kingston as friends and family members would join him to celebrate.
Buju Banton and Skip Marley took pride of place along with their compatriots Toots and the Maytals, Maxi Priest and The Wailers, as the five nominees for the 2021 Reggae Grammy Awards.
Gospel singer Jenieve Hibbert-Bailey sent a heartfelt thanks to all those who played a role in the thanksgiving service of reggae singer and cultural icon, Frederick ‘Toots’ Hibbert, who was laid to rest on Sunday in the National Heroes Park, two months after his passing.
Minister of Culture, Gender, Entertainment and Sport, Honourable Olivia Grange has announced a change in venue for the Kingston viewing of the body of the late Reggae legend, Toots Hibbert.
The Government of Jamaica via the Minister of Culture, Gender, Entertainment and Sport, the Honourable Olivia Grange has announced plans for the farewell arrangements for Reggae legend Frederick “Toots” Hibbert.
Frederick ‘Toots’ Hibbert, frontman of Toots and the Maytals, will be buried in National Heroes’ Park in downtown Kingston on Sunday, November 8.
Following a horrendous mistake that forced the postponement of the internment of the body of legendary reggae artiste Frederick ‘Toots’ Hibbert, the Jamaican government has announced that Hibbert will be laid to rest in the National Heroes Park Jamaica.
A botched burial order postponed plans to inter the body of Frederick ‘Toots’ Hibbert. Members of the immediate Hibbert family were disappointed and devastated that the burial order had not been signed, but at least one sibling, Jenieve Bailey christened the burial order faux pas as “divine intervention”.