Allen Toussaint

Allen Toussaint

New Orleans, US
R&B, Jazz, Rock, Blues
1.3bn all-time streams (31 Jul '26)
Producer, songwriter, arranger, session pianist, solo artist -- Allen Toussaint wore 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.