Toots remembered as provider, source of strength
Sep 14th, 2020 | Category: Special Reports | 3:51#reggae #toots #maytals #music Frederick 'Toots' Hibbert, 77, died at the University Hospital of the West Indies on Friday, September 11, 2020, two weeks after being placed in a medically induced coma. The enormity of the little man who was magnified on the global stage was not lost on grieving family and friends in his hometown of Treadlight, Clarendon, on Sunday as Toots’ songs wafted in the evening breeze from several homes in the rural neighbourhood.
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