Sep 12, 2020 - 1:23 pm
Frederick Toots Hibbert, who pioneered and helped globalize the reggae genre via his iconic, GRAMMY-winning band Toots And The Maytals, died Friday (Sept. 11) evening. He was 77.
While no cause of death has been revealed, Hibbert was hospitalized in an intensive care unit in his native Jamaica in August after showing symptoms of the coronavirus. While he was awaiting results from a coronavirus test, he was placed in a medically induced coma in early September. Toots is fighting for his life and his family is asking for prayers, Claude Mills, Hibbert s publicist, told Jamaican daily newspaper The Gleaner.