Otis Redding became one of the most admired and influential soul musicians, and he is still praised by many as the greatest popular-music vocalist ever to call Georgia home.
Born on September 9, 1941, in Dawson, Redding moved with his family to Macon when he was three years old. In order to offer financial help to his struggling family, Redding dropped out of Macon's Ballard Hudson High School in the tenth grade and went to work as a member of Little Richard's rock-and-roll band, the Upsetters. Redding met his wife, Zelma Atwood, in 1959, and the couple married in 1961. Two of their sons, Dexter and Otis III, would become musicians and music producers.
Otis wrote many truly great songs like "These Arms of Mine", "Try a Little Tenderness", "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction", "Respect" and "I Can't Turn You Loose". His greatest ever song (siitin on) the dock of the bay was recorded three days before Ottis died in a plane crash in 1967 and went on to sell over a millon copies and straight to number one in the charts. Reading was only 26 years old when he died but his music is still living on through to the present day and will continue to live on because truly great songs are never forgotten.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otis_Redding
RIP Otis Reading a Truly great musician!!!
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