The jamaican band Toots & the Maytals stayed with him Grammy for Best Reggae Album at the 63rd Grammy Awards, ceremony that was scheduled for the end of January but was postponed to March due to the Covid pandemic. The gang headed by the late Frederick ‘Toots’ Hibbert won his second Grammy in the category for “Got To Be Tough”, album that was released a week before the death of the pioneer of the genre and leader of the group.
The band, who played a pioneering role in the birth of Reggae in the 1960s, have been nominated for a gramophone in the Reggae Album category five times, the last time they won was in 2005.
It should be remembered that the legendary Frederick ‘Toots’ Hibbert, who was named by Time magazine in 2010 as one of the 100 best singers of all time, died at the University Hospital of the West Indies in September last year and was buried in Heroes Park, and Kingston.
Toots & the Maytals prevailed in the race for the Grammy 2020 where they were also nominated Buju Banton for his album “Upside Down 2020”; Skip Marley por “Higher Place”; Maxi Priest con “It All Comes Back to Love” y The Wailers for “One World”.
