Hibbert performing in London in 1976. He called his songs “messages of salvation”In 1968 Toots Hibbert and his band the Maytals recorded a rollicking dance single titled Do the Reggay. “The music was there and no one didn’t know what to call it,” he recalled later. “I recorded that song and people told me that let them know our music is called reggae. In the song’s lyric he also referred to “the reggay” as “the new dance going around

Source: The Times September 13, 2020 23:03 UTC