国籍：美国 出生地：美国路易斯安那州新奥尔良市 职业：音乐家、作曲家、唱片制作人 生日：1938年1月14日 简介：Allen Toussaint1938年1月14日生于新奥尔良。他在美国50年代至70年代的流行乐坛上占有重要地位。他是一个铁路工人的儿子，却作为钢琴手随同(Shirlev and Lee)一起巡回演出，开始了职业音乐生涯。1955年他先后同戴夫 巴塞洛缪、胖子多米诺、(Smiley Lewis)和(Lloyd Price)合作。1958年他同RCA公司签订第一份唱片合同，并以当时闻名的名字阿尔 图森特发行了一张器乐演奏专辑《新奥尔良的疯狂声音》。 从艺历程：The youngest of three children, Toussaint was born in 1938 in New Orleans and grew up in a shotgun house in the Gert Town neighborhood, where his mother, Naomi Neville (whose name he later adopted pseudonymously for some of his works), welcomed and fed all manner of musicians as they practiced and recorded with her son. His father, Clarence, worked on the railway and played trumpet. Allen Toussaint learned piano as a child and took informal music lessons from an elderly neighbor, Ernest Pinn. In his teens he played in a band, the Flamingos, with the guitarist Snooks Eaglin, before dropping out of school. A significant early influence on Toussaint was the syncopated "second-line" piano style of Professor Longhair. Toussaint was raised Catholic. After a lucky break at age 17, in which he stood in for Huey "Piano" Smith at a performance with Earl King's band in Prichard, Alabama, Toussaint was introduced to a group of local musicians led by Dave Bartholomew, who performed regularly at the Dew Drop Inn, a nightclub on Lasalle Street in Uptown New Orleans. His first recording was in 1957 as a stand-in for Fats Domino on Domino's record "I Want You to Know", on which Toussaint played piano and Domino overdubbed his vocals. His first success as a producer came in 1957 with Lee Allen's "Walking with Mr. Lee". He began performing regularly in Bartholomew's band, and he recorded with Fats Domino, Smiley Lewis, Lee Allen and other leading New Orleans performers.