TOOTS AND THE MAYTALS
"I make people all happy when I play a song. It ís good"
-"Toots" Hibbert (Timm)
Toots and the Maytals have music history spanning over three decades, and in that time they’ve become almost as legendary as Bob Marley and Peter Tosh. The blend of music styles that make up the soulful sounds of Toots and the Maytals have come from many influential artists as well as the historical influence of reggae music and the group’s history. Toots and the Maytals stand out within the reggae genre not only because of their amazing beats and legendary live performances, but also because of the creation of their own genre in music consisting of a little preaching, ska, soul, R & B, and a little calypso; no one has been able to duplicate it since. Toots and the Maytals have been making music since the birth of what we know as reggae today and have had an immeasurable influence on many of today’s artists, meanwhile Toots is still on the road and giving kick-ass performances all over the world.
A Star is Born...
Fredrick Nathaniel Hibbert, better known as "Toots", was born on December 10, 1946 deep in the countryside of rural Jamaica in the small town of May Pen Clarendon. Toots began gracing the world with his talent at the age of seven in the choir with his four brothers and three sisters at the Seventh Day Adventist where his father preached. This taste of Baptist-derived gospel at a young age no doubt provided the spiritual influence that grew into Toots’ soul-reggae flavor. There were other musical influences from his youth to which Toots was exposed to by a transistor radio. "We used to listen to radio station and I like all of them... Ray Charles, Michael Jackson, Sam Cooke, Diana Ross," Toots has said. "I grew up listening to James Brown, Otis Redding, Little Richard." At about age fifteen Toots left his small town and headed for the city of Kingston. He found employment in a barbershop where he not only cut hair, but also entertained customers and passers by with his vocal talents. Kingston is also where Toots fatefully met Nathaniel "Jerry" Matthias and Henry "Raleigh" Gordon in 1961: "I used to sing all the time, and people would come around and listen, and say I was good and I should go and record my voice. That’s when I met Raleigh and Jerry.
T-Bone Walker was born on May 28, 1910, in Linden Texas; his real name was Aaron Thibeaux Walker. T-Bone’s father and his mother, were both musicians who separated not long after T-Bone was born(“T-Bone”, n.p). T-Bone once said that his earliest memory was hearing his mother playing blues guitar on the front porch (“T-Bone”, n.p). Through his church choir and his street singing stepfather, T-Bone became interested in music. By the time he was 10, T-Bone was accompanying his stepfather at drive-in soft-drink stands (“T-Bone and Rock&Roll’, n.p). Around the same time, he became the “lead boy” for Blind Lemon Jefferson from 1920 to 1923; Walker would lead Jefferson down Texas streets. (“T-Bone and Rock & Roll”, n.p).
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Although there is a variety of music that could be examined to trace its evolution through time, there is one genre in particular that is quite interesting to examine. Though it differs from other types of music, it will be looked at in conjunction with Reggae music as they have similar ties. Reggae music is quite prominent today in the United States, parts of Africa, and of course Jamaica. Reggae is notoriously known for its most influential artist Bob Marley, and it is not unusual for one to have heard a few, if not many of his songs. Reggae’s popularity is steadily increasing and is doing so through both expansions of the music as well as increasing knowledge on the genre.
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