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Otis Redding
Otis Ray Redding Jr. was an American singer and songwriter. He is regarded as one of the greatest singers in the history of American popular music and a seminal artist in soul music and rhythm and blues. Nicknamed the "King of Soul", Redding's style of singing drew inspiration from the gospel music that preceded the genre. His vocal style influenced many other soul artists of the 1960s.
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entertainment · American singer and songwriter (1941–1967) · singer · singer-songwriter · also Otis Redding, Redding
Born 9 September 1941 · Died 10 December 1967 · Q217839
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2026· 5 entries
Sopitas.com: Aaron Rowe: folk inspirado en Oasis y Otis Redding desde Dublín
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That Eric Alper: Kashus Culpepper Reimagines Otis Redding’s “These Arms Of Mine” Around A Nashville Campfire
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Fulton County News: Redding And Thompson Weigh In On Data Centers
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Westfair Communications: Meadow Ridge in Redding names new director of Mind and Memory Care
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2025· 2 entries
Dollars) but had to pay $450 (US$4,732 in 2025 dollars) for sheet music for the house band, led by King Curtis, which left them in financial difficulty
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Dollars) when he learned about Redding's financial situation
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2022· 1 entry
Published video “Otis Redding - Try a Little Tenderness (Crazy Cousinz Remix) [Official Audio]”.
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2021· 6 entries
Published video “Otis 80th Birthday "Sittin on the Dock of the Bay" contest winner - Drea Rose”.
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Published video “Otis Redding - Merry Christmas Baby (Official Visualizer)”.
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Published video “Otis Redding - (Sittin' On) The Dock of the Bay (DJ Spinna Remix) [Official Audio]”.
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Published video “Otis Redding - (Sittin' On) The Dock of the Bay (Reg West Remix) [Official Audio]”.
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Published video “Otis Redding - “Respect!: Otis Redding And The Revolution Of Soul” at The GRAMMY Museum”.
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Published video “Otis Redding - Cupid (Official Lyric Video)”.
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2019· 1 entry
Released album “Captured Live at the Monterey International Pop Festival (Do It Just One More Time!)”.
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2018· 4 entries
Published video “Otis Redding - Hard To Handle (Official Lyric Video)”.
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Published video “Otis Redding - (Sittin' On) The Dock of The Bay (Official Music Video)”.
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Released album “Dock of the Bay Sessions”.
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Published video “Otis Redding - Steve Cropper recalls recording "(Sittin' On) The Dock of the Bay"”.
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2017· 2 entries
Released album “The Definitive Studio Album Collection”.
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Released album “Stax Classics”.
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2016· 3 entries
Released album “Christmas Magic”.
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Released album “Live at the Whisky a Go Go”.
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A 6-CD box set that won a Grammy Award for Best Album Notes
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2015· 2 entries
Released album “Soul Manifesto: 1964–1970”.
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Released album “The Complete Studio Albums Collection”.
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2013· 5 entries
In Cleveland, Ohio, the city where Redding did his last show at Leo's Casino, he was inducted into the inaugural class of the Rhythm & Blues Music Hall of Fame at Cleveland State University
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Released album “The Complete Stax/Volt Singles Collection”.
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Released album “Lonely & Blue: The Deepest Soul of Otis Redding”.
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Released album “The King of Soul”.
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Released album “Original Album Series, Vol. 2”.
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2012· 1 entry
Released album “The Very Best of Aretha Franklin & Otis Redding Together”.
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2011· 2 entries
Released album “Soul Legend: The Very Best of Otis Redding”.
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West and Jay-Z released "Otis" as a single from their collaborative album, Watch the Throne
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2010· 4 entries
Released album “100 Hits Legends: Otis Redding”.
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Stax Records released a two-disc recording of three complete sets from his Whisky a Go Go date in April 1966
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Released album “Original Album Series”.
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Released album “Live on the Sunset Strip”.
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2008· 3 entries
Released album “Live in London & Paris”.
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Released album “Groovin' Time”.
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Released album “The Dock of the Bay / The Soul Album”.
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2007· 3 entries
Released album “Pure Southern Soul”.
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Released album “Otis Redding The Platinum Collection”.
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Redding's widow, Zelma, established the Otis Redding Foundation in her husband's honor
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2006· 4 entries
Released album “Tutto Otis: The King of Soul”.
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Released album “The Definitive Soul Collection”.
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Released album “(Sittin’ on) The Dock of the Bay”.
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Released album “Stax Profiles: Otis Redding”.
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2005· 3 entries
Released album “Legends of Soul: The Very Best of Aretha Franklin & Otis Redding”.
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Released album “The Best of Otis Redding”.
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On the outro track to Kanye West's sophomore album Late Registration titled "Gone", he sampled the intro to Redding's 1965 track It's Too Late
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2004· 1 entry
Released album “Deep Memphis Soul”.
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2002· 4 entries
Released album “The Essentials”.
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Released album “Aretha & Otis”.
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Released album “A Soupçon of Soul”.
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The city of Macon honored its native son by unveiling a memorial statue (32°50′19
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2001· 1 entry
Released album “Legends of Soul”.
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2000· 2 entries
Released album “It's Not Just Sentimental”.
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Released album “The Very Best of Otis Redding”.
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1999· 1 entry
Awarded Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award (1999).
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1998· 2 entries
Released album “Dreams to Remember: The Otis Redding Anthology”.
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Released album “Love Songs”.
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1997· 2 entries
Released album “I've Been Loving You Too Long and Other Hits”.
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Released album “Shake and Other Hits”.
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1996· 1 entry
Released album “Remember Me”.
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1995· 1 entry
Released album “The Very Best of Otis Redding, Volume 2”.
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1994· 1 entry
And in 1999 he received the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award
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1993· 4 entries
Released album “Otis! The Definitive Otis Redding”.
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Released album “Try a Little Tenderness: Live in Stockholm 4th June 1967”.
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Released album “Good to Me Recorded Live at the Whiskey a Go Go, Volume 2”.
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Released album “Greatest Hits”.
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1992· 4 entries
Released album “It’s Not Just Sentimental”.
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Released album “The Collection”.
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Released album “I've Been Lovin' You Too Long”.
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Released album “Greatest Hits, Volume 2”.
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1991· 1 entry
Released album “16 Original Hits”.
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1990· 2 entries
Released album “Otis Redding Live Recorded in July 1965”.
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Released album “Live”.
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1989· 3 entries
Awarded Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (1989).
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Released album “Satisfaction”.
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Declaring his name to be "synonymous with the term soul music that arose out of the black experience in America through the transmutation of gospel and rhythm and blues into a form of funky, secular testifying
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1988· 1 entry
Was inducted into the Georgia Music Hall of Fame
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1987· 1 entry
Released album “The Definitive Collection: The Dock of the Bay”.
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1986· 1 entry
Released album “The Ultimate Otis Redding”.
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1984· 1 entry
Released album “The Dock Of The Bay”.
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1982· 2 entries
Released album “Recorded Live: Previously Unreleased Performances”.
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Released album “The History of Rock, Volume Eight”.
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1972· 1 entry
Released album “Otis Redding”.
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1970· 3 entries
Released album “Tell the Truth”.
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Released album “Historic Performances Recorded at the Monterey International Pop Festival”.
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Released album “Remembering”.
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1969· 1 entry
Released album “Love Man”.
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1968· 4 entries
Released album “In Person at the Whisky a Go Go”.
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Released album “The Immortal Otis Redding”.
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The National Association of Television and Radio Announcers (NATRA) created the Otis Redding Award in his honor
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Released album “The Otis Redding Story”.
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1967· 6 entries
Died 1967-12-10.
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Released album “History of Otis Redding”.
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Released album “King & Queen”.
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Released album “Live in Europe”.
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Released album “Here Comes Some Soul From Otis Redding and Little Joe Curtis”.
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Redding performed at the influential Monterey Pop Festival as the closing act on Saturday night, the second day of the festival
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1966· 3 entries
Released album “Complete & Unbelievable: The Otis Redding Dictionary of Soul”.
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Released album “The Soul Album”.
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And issued in 1968 on Atco, and Historic Performances Recorded at the Monterey International Pop Festival, a Reprise Records release featuring some of the live performances at the festival by the Jimi Hendrix Experience
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1965· 3 entries
Released album “Otis Blue / Otis Redding Sings Soul”.
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Released album “The Great Otis Redding Sings Soul Ballads”.
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Released ep “Shake”.
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1964· 1 entry
Released album “Pain in My Heart”.
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1958· 2 entries
Redding joined Johnny Jenkins's band, the Pinetoppers, with whom he toured the Southern states as a singer and driver
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On disc jockey Hamp Swain's "The Teenage Party", a talent contest at the local Roxy and Douglass Theatres
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1941· 2 entries
Born 1941-09-09.
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The fourth of six children, and the first son of Otis Redding Sr
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