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How old is Toots and the Maytals?

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Reggae in the 90s was a fast-trending music that everyone just loved to dance to. One of the Reagge bands formed around that time were the Toots and the Maytals.

The Maytals, known from 1972 to 2020 as Toots and the Maytals, are a Jamaican musical group, one of the best-known ska and rocksteady vocal groups. The Maytals were formed in the early 1960s and were key figures in popularizing reggae music.

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How old is Toots and the Maytals?

Toots and the Maytals were a reggae musical group, with frontman Toots Hibberts and other band mates and instrumentalist. Hibbert met Henry “Raleigh” Gordon and Nathaniel “Jerry” Mathias in Kingston in 1962 and formed The Maytals as a vocal trio, a group whose early recordings were incorrectly attributed to The Flames and The Vikings in the UK by Island Records. The first instrumentalist members added to the group included Jackie Jackson, Hux Brown, Rad Bryan, and Paul Douglas.

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The Toots and the Maytals would have been 48 years in 2020 when Footman Toots Hibbert, died 2020, but in 2023 the group would have been 51 years old.