Jamaican reggae legend, Toots Hibbert has died at the age of 77, his music group, Toots & the Maytals has announced.
“It is with the heaviest of hearts to announce that Frederick Nathaniel “Toots” Hibbert passed away peacefully tonight, surrounded by his family at the University Hospital of the West Indies in Kingston, Jamaica”, the group announced on Friday.
Although no cause of death was given, Hibbert was hospitalized last month after showing symptoms consistent with the coronavirus.
Toots is survived by seven of his eight children and his wife, “Miss D,” named Doreen, to whom he was married for nearly 40 years.