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Toots Hibbert

real name Frederick Nathaniel Hibbert

May Pen, Jamaica

Toots Hibbert is credited on 1,647 releases across 468 albums tracked on Gatefold, active 1964–2025 — the collector-built map of who actually made the music.

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1,647

Credits

468

Albums

7

Decades active

865

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Jamaican reggae singer, songwriter and guitarist.
Leader of the band Toots & The Maytals, he was one of the most important contributors to making Jamaican music known around the world, since the 1960s. He was one of the first to use the term "Reggae" to define the music genre (Do The Reggae / Take Five (Jamaica 1968) (opens in a new tab)).
He recorded almost no Rocksteady because he was arrested in 1966 (on a stunt by a popular singer of the time who was jealous of his success but for whom Toots will never say the name!) and comes out in 1967 with the most famous lock number, 54 - 46.
Born: 8 December 1942, in May Pen, Jamaica.
Died: 11 September 2020 in Kingston, Jamaica.
May appear in release credits as "Frederick Hibbert" or "F. Hibbert."

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Credited work

1,647 releases · 468 albums · active 1964–2025

  • Performance · 2,507
  • Production · 139
  • Other credits · 41
  • Engineering · 5

Studios: Dynamic Sounds Studios · Island Studios · T.W. Studios · Harry J's Recording Studio

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