REDDING, OTIS

REDDING, OTIS. Rhythm “n” blues singer (9 September 1941 in Dawson, Georgia; 10 December 1967 near Madison, Wisconsin). His family moved to Macon, Georgia, when he was a child. He obtained his musical education in the public schools there and sang in a church choir. He began singing professionally in the early 1960s; by 1965 he had established himself as a leading rhythm “n” blues singer. He toured widely in the United States and in Europe and recorded extensively. He was killed in a plane…