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Toots Hibbert
By Elijah Wald (originally published in the Boston Globe, )
Lets get to the heart of the matter: What is Toots Hibbert doing in a small club? Monday night, Toots and the Maytals are at the House of Blues in Cambridge. It is aogreat opportunity to see a world-class artist in a tiny room, but also puzzling. Because, along with being one of the most dynamic live performers around, Hibbert is the king of classic Jamaican music, the gospel-drenched master who helped define ska, then invented reggae.
Admittedly, Hibbert did not invent the music by himself, but he was the biggest star of the day and he named the style with his hit "Do the Reggay (sic)." Speaking from his Jamaican home, his voice infused with a rich island accent, he tells the origin of the word: "It come from the suffering in the Trenchtown, where I used to live. People have this little joke about "streggae," and we just use th