In reply to Andy Hardy:
I always felt that there was a certain uplifting quality to Toot's voice when he sang - something about the strength of the human spirit within it, and then I learned about his upbringing singing in the Jamaican church, and how he'd lost both his parents close together around the age of 15, and heard him in a recent interview talking about the need to spread positivity, and then what I felt I was hearing in his singing started to make sense, in how it must have taken a certain quality to sustain himself and to go after his musical dreams following his losses, as if that combined with his goal of spreading positivity, and maybe any religious faith too, all came though melded together in his singing and performing.
I've always played Toots a lot, and couldn't help but dance when I went to see him outdoors in 2012.
RIP and many thanks for the tunes, Toots.
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