After offering the concert, Toussaint shook hands, giving kisses, was removed selfies and grinning from ear to ear with its distinctive look bright sequined suit, sandals with white socks and his unruly curly hair, before leaving the theater. After boarding the vehicle that was moving to the hotel, Toussaint, a legend of American music suffered a cardiac arrest and from there was transferred to the Fundación Jiménez Díaz Hospital, where he died.
Toussaint, born in 1938 in a suburb of New Orleans, was part of the Hall of Fame Rock and Roll was nominated for the Grammy Awards and received the Medal of Honor of the Arts from President Barack Obama in July 2013.
Pianist, singer and composer, author and producer Toussaint was of hits popularized by a large and diverse number of great artists of popular music like Otis Redding, Bo Diddley, Jerry Garcia, Rolling Stones, The Who, Paul McCartney & amp; Wings, Ringo Starr, Willie DeVille, Elvis Costello, Dr. John, The Band and Little Feat.
Toussaint began his career in 1955, at 17 years old, influenced by the libertine style and asalvajado of Professor Longhair and rock & amp; roll southern Fats Domino, among others. He was well acquainted with the essence of jazz, blues, gospel and rhythm & amp; blues and was at that marshy ground where the pianist equipped with a swing unparalleled move.
Toussaint wrote songs like “Fortune Teller” and “Lipstick Traces (On a Cigarette)” both composed melodies with Naomi Neville, who then interpreted by the Rolling Stones.
He had his higher profile in the first half of the 70s arranged for Paul Simon, BJ Thomas, Robert Palmer, Willy DeVille, Sandy Denny, Elkie Brooks, Solomon Burke, Little Feat and Sandy Denny and his ongoing work with The Meters moved it to contemporary funk with more hard edge in his own album. In fact, he produced two of the most beautiful albums of New Orleans. Great record of Dr. John “Right Place, Wrong Time” and the disc funks number one smash “Lady Marmalade”
In 1975 Toussaint released what for many was his best solo album: Suthern Nights, whose cut diffusion, What Do You Want the Girl to Do “, became a huge success for the superstar of country-pop, Glen Campbell, and it was? I turned into cover by Boz Scaggs, Lowell George and Bonnie Raitt.
Toussaint collaborated with Paul McCartney and Wings album “Venus and Mars” and played the song “Rock Show”. He also composed songs “Ruler of My Heart,” which was recorded by Irma Thomas, Otis Redding and the Rolling Stones, while another of his classic “A Certain Girl” was recorded by the Yardbirds and Warren Zevon.
The Band, under the bronzes on his albums “Cahoots”, “Rock of Ages” and the album and film Farewell “The Last Waltz”. In 2006 he teamed up with Elvis Costello to edit the remarkable album “River In Reverse” a intense and beautiful album, while the following year he released the album tribute “Goin ‘Home: A Tribute to Fats Domino” and Paul McCartney was accompanied by the song “I Want to Walk You Home”
. 2009, the pianist returned to join Henry and published “The Bright Mississippi”, where he played songs of Sidney Bechet, Jelly Roll Morton, Django Reinhardt, Thelonious Monk, Duke Ellington and Billy Strayhorn, and went on tour while Eric Clapton asked him to zsu play the piano albums of 2010, “Clapton” on two covers of Fats Waller “My Very Good Friend the Milkman” and “When Somebody Thinks You’re Wonderful”.
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