Lifestyle: Music King: Toots Hibbert helped give reggae its name, its sound and its enduring grace — Repeating Islands

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A report by Chris Richards for The Washington Post. During “Funky Kingston” — that golden-hot sunbeam of a song that Toots and the Maytals first dropped in 1973 — the word “reggae” becomes a sort of hyper-noun: a person, a place and a thing. The person is Frederick “Toots” Hibbert, singing in a handsome growl that originates […]

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