Toussaint’s Reggae Soul, on Black Gold
Toussaint’s Reggae Soul, on Black Gold.
The music business is populated by many more people who knock around its fringes than by stars who make a handsome living. On occasion, hustle and hard work push someone with talent from the margin to another plane. Witness Toussaint, the stage name of Paul Barrett, a 30-year-old singer out of Muncie, Ind., who cut his teeth in the choir at the Baptist church where his mother sang and his father preached.