A new Postal Service video spotlights New Orleans composer and musician Allen Toussaint, the 48th honoree in the organization’s Black Heritage stamp series.
The four-minute video features comments from the genre-spanning virtuoso’s son and daughter, Reginald Toussaint and Alison Toussaint-LeBeaux, and two members of the Allen Toussaint Band, Herman LeBeaux Jr. and Ken “Afro” Williams.
Gary Barksdale, chief of the Postal Inspection Service, provides the introduction.
“His songs, his music, lyrics, have spread across the world. And now a stamp with his picture on it can follow suit,” Toussaint-LeBeaux says in the video. “That’s just lovely to me.”
