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Toots Hibbert
Toots Hibbert, frontman of Toots and the Maytals, is widely credited with coining the term "reggae" itself in his band's 1968 song "Do the Reggay," one of the earliest recorded uses of the word to describe the emerging musical style that would go on to become one of the most globally significant genres to originate from Jamaica. His gospel-influenced, soulful vocal style, developed from singing in church as a child, gave Toots and the Maytals a sound distinct from some of their more strictly roots-reggae contemporaries, incorporating American soul and R&B influences alongside traditional Jamaican ska and rocksteady rhythms. The band's 1972 song "Pressure Drop," later covered by numerous other artists across multiple genres, became one of the most widely recognized and frequently covered reggae songs outside Jamaica, helping introduce the group's sound to international audiences during reggae's broader global emergence in the early 1970s. Toots continued actively recording and touring for more than five decades, including a 2020 Grammy-winning album released shortly before his death later that same year, giving him one of the longest sustained active careers of any major reggae artist and cementing his role as a foundational figure whose contributions predate even Bob Marley's own rise to international fame.
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Peter Tosh
Peter Tosh co-founded the Wailers alongside Bob Marley and Bunny Wailer in the early 1960s, and his own more directly confrontational, politically militant songwriting style — particularly on his 1976 solo album Legalize It, an explicit call for marijuana decriminalization — distinguished his solo career from Marley's somewhat more broadly accessible material. His outspoken advocacy for Pan-Africanism and his direct criticism of South African apartheid and other systems of racial oppression made Tosh one of reggae's most overtly political voices, willing to address controversial subjects more directly than some of his contemporaries in the genre. Tosh survived a brutal 1978 assault by Jamaican police, who beat him severely while he was in custody, an incident that became a significant flashpoint in his ongoing public criticism of Jamaican law enforcement and government policy throughout the remainder of his career. His 1987 murder during a home invasion robbery in Jamaica cut short a career that had continued to produce politically pointed reggae well after his departure from the Wailers, and Tosh's more militant, explicitly political songwriting approach has remained influential among subsequent generations of politically conscious reggae and dancehall artists.
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