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Allen Toussaint (; born January 14, 1938) is an American musician, songwriter/composer, record producer, and influential figure in  .

Many of Toussaint's songs have become familiar through , including "", "Ride Your Pony", "", "", "", "Everything I Do Gonna Be Funky", "I'll Take a Melody", "Get Out of My Life, Woman" and "".

In the early 1960s he wrote and produced a string of hits for  artists such as , ,  and , , and .

Some notable examples are:

Toussaint credited about twenty songs to his parents, Clarence and Naomi. These include Benny Spellman's 1961 original version of "Fortune Teller" and ' 1966 version of "Work, Work, Work". Alison Krauss and Robert Plant 2007 covered "Fortune Teller" on their 2007 collaboration album . A fairly thorough song list appears in Toussaint's discography section , below.

Toussaint's piano and arrangements show up on hundreds of records during the early 1960s on records by , , and scores of other artists. Starting in the 1970s, he switched gears to a funkier sound, writing and producing for , , and the   tribe. He also began to work with non-New Orleans artists such as , , , , , , Scottish soul singer  () and southern rocker .[] He arranged horn music for 's 1971 album , plus  and  film, in conjunction with arranging horn parts for their concert repertoire.  recorded Toussaint's "What Do You Want the Girl to Do?" on his 1976 album , which reached #2 on the. In 1976 he also collaborated with  on the album .[]

Toussaint also launched his own solo career, which peaked in the 1970s with the albums From a Whisper to a Scream and . It was during this time that he teamed with , and produced their highly acclaimed 1975 album , which spawned the Number One hit, "". The same year, Toussaint collaborated with  and  for their hit album  and played on the song . Two years later,  covered Toussaint's "" and carried the song to Number One on the Pop, Country and Adult-Contemporary Charts. Along with many of his contemporaries, Toussaint found that interest in his compositions was rekindled when his work began to be  by  artists in the 1980s and 1990s.[]

He was inducted into the  in 1998 and, in 2009, the . On May 9, 2011 he was inducted into the  -- Wikipedia.