There are many legendary recording artists who led remarkably short lives. Hank Williams, Patsy Cline, Jimi Hendrix, Buddy Holly, Sam Cooke, Janis Joplin and Robert Johnson are just some of the ...

MACON, Ga. — Members of Otis Redding's family and the Macon community gathered to break ground at the new Otis Redding Center for the Arts Friday morning. The Otis Redding Foundation celebrated the ...

Otis Redding would have been 80 years old Thursday. Betty Freeman, who’s lived in Macon’s Greenwood Bottom neighborhood all her life, told me her mother worked with Redding when he was a youngster at ...

MACON — A block from this Georgia music mecca’s City Hall, precisely 120 paces from the front doors of the City Auditorium where Otis Redding’s funeral was held 57 years ago, a new 15,000-square-foot ...

A longtime dream of R&B/soul legend Otis Redding has finally come true. The Otis Redding Foundation is announcing the opening next week of the Otis Redding Center for the Arts (ORCA). Located in ...

Singer Otis Redding has been called an emotional explosion on stage and a soul singer who demanded respect. Redding, who started in Little Richard's backing band, once said: "I want to fill the silent ...

MACON, Ga. — Singer and guitarist Otis Redding III, the son and namesake of the legendary 1960s soul singer, has died from cancer at age 59, his family said Wednesday. Redding was just three years old ...