Allen Toussaint
USA
Born: 14 January 1938
Years Active: 50, 60, 70, 80, 90, 2000
Genres: R&B
Styles: R&B/Soul, New Orleans R&B, Early R&B, Soul, Southern Soul
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Producer, songwriter, arranger, session pianist, solo artist -- Allen Toussaint has worn all these hats over the course of his lengthy and prolific career, and his behind-the-scenes work alone would have been enough to make him a legend of New Orleans R&B. Thanks to his work with numerous other artists, Toussaint bore an enormous amount of responsibility for the sound of R&B in the Crescent City from the '60s on into the '70s. His productions kept with the times, moving from rollicking, earthy soul in the '60s to gritty, rambunctious funk in th...
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