“His soul will always be resonating with us and the people who loved his music,” Jimmy Cliff tells us of his friend, Maytals singer Toots Hibbert
When Toots first came to Beverley’s Records — because I started quite a few years before him — he auditioned for myself and Derrick Morgan, and we turned Toots down. We said, ‘You sing like a cowboy,’ and [we mocked how] he played his guitar left-handed… He was hurt, and he left. And a month after that, he made this huge hit. He went to Coxsone [Dodd], another one of the producers, and made a huge hit. When he saw us, he said no words. Just looked in our eyes.
What a soul, what a personality, Toots. He’s like the sun. When he walks in, he lights up the place. Whether it’s a show or he’s just walking. He was always saying hi to everyone. What a spirit that man was, what a soul.
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