Legendary New Orleans musician Allen Toussaint (1938–2015) is featured on a new stamp from the US Postal Service, available January 30—the forty-eighth in its Black Heritage stamp series. Ethel Kessler, an art director for USPS, designed the stamp using a photograph by Bill Thompkins. A free first-day-of-issue event will be held at the George and Joyce Wein Jazz & Heritage Center in New Orleans.
Legendary New Orleans musician Allen Toussaint (1938–2015) is featured on a new stamp from the US Postal Service, available January 30, 2025, as the forty-eighth stamp in its Black Heritage stamp series. Ethel Kessler, an art director for USPS, designed the stamp using a photograph by Bill Thompkins. The Toussaint stamp, a First-Class Forever issue, will be available in panes of twenty; it may be pre-ordered here.
A first-day-of-issue event will be held at the George and Joyce Wein Jazz & Heritage Center in New Orleans on January 30. The event is free and open to the public; attendees may RSVP here.
Allen Toussaint released two albums on Nonesuch Records—American Tune (2016) and The Bright Mississippi (2009)—and is featured on the 2005 compilation album Our New Orleans to benefit New Orleans Habitat for Humanity's post-Katrina rebuilding effort, an expanded edition of which was released on vinyl in 2021.
President Barack Obama recognized Allen Toussaint with the National Medal of Arts in 2013. His previous honors include induction into the Blues Hall of Fame in 2012, the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2011, the Louisiana Music Hall of Fame in 2009, and the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 1998. In 2022, the New Orleans City Council renamed Robert E. Lee Boulevard for Toussaint, who lived there during the last years of his life.
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