In 1966, the Maytals won the first Jamaican Independence Festival Popular Song Competition (which they won again in 1969 and 1972) with Toots’ breakthrough song, “Bam Bam.” The song, later reprised as ...

Toots Hibbert, Jamaica’s answer to James Brown, is 80 years old and still cranking out music that sounds as fresh as his original records in the mid-1960s. His latest under the Toots and the Maytals ...

Just days before reggae legend Toots Hibbert died, Toots and the Maytals released their new album Got to Be Tough. The album features a cover of the Bob Marley classic “Three Little Birds,” and it ...

Toots And The Maytals’ status as one of music’s all-time greats is unassailable. Their 1968 single ‘Do The Reggay’ literally gave the genre its name, and subsequent hits ‘Pressure Drop’, ‘Monkey Man’ ...

Reggae stalwarts Toots and the Maytals stopped by Spotify’s studios in New York to record a session that included their clever interpretation of John Denver’s classic, “Take Me Home, Country Roads,” ...

Film telling the story of one of the most influential artists to come out of Jamaica, Toots Hibbert, featuring performances, rare archive and interviews with contemporaries. Show more The untold story ...