Acapella allen toussaint biography
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Born January 14, 1938, in New Orleans, LA; children: three, including Clarence and Alison.
Acapella allen toussaint biography
Addresses: Booking agent-- New Orleans Entertainment Agency, 3530 Rue Delphine, New Orleans, LA 70131.
Allen Toussaint likes to talk about the old days, when, as he related to Don Palmer in a 1986 Down Beat article, he and his friends would spend the day in the front two rooms of his parents' shotgun house in New Orleans.
Friends like Aaron Neville, Ernie K-Doe, Benny Spellman, and Irma Thomas would socialize and sing popular songs. Or Toussaint would write a song for Neville or Thomas and the others would sing behind him or her as they learned the song.
Then they would head down to Cosimo Matassa's J&M Studios, where Toussaint had begun directing sessions for Minuit Records in 1960, singing all the way. Sometimes they would even return to the house afterwards and sing some more.
Not too much has changed since then.
J&M Studios closed and was replaced in 1973 by the state-of-the-