- Collection:
- New Georgia Encyclopedia
- Title:
- Otis Redding
- Date of Original:
- 1960/1967
- Subject:
- Musicians--United States
African American musicians
Men--United States
African American men
Singers--United States
African American singers
Soul music--United States
African Americans--Music
Soul musicians--United States
Sound studios--United States
Redding, Otis, d. 1967 - Location:
- United States, 39.76, -98.5
- Medium:
- black-and-white photographs
- Type:
- Still Image
- Format:
- image/jpeg
- Description:
- Although Otis Redding achieved success as a rhythm-and-blues and soul musician during the early 1960s, he did not receive much mainstream attention until the release of his song "I've Been Loving You Too Long (To Stop Now)" in 1965. In 1967 Redding released the crossover hit "Try a Little Tenderness" and was the only soul act to appear at the Monterey Pop Festival in California.
Photograph of soul singer Otis Redding in a recording studio. He wears a white suit and sits before a microphone. He faces right.
Redding, a Georgia native, was an influential rhythm-and-blues and soul musician during the 1960s. Killed in an airplane crash in 1967, Redding was posthumously honored by a statue in Macon, Georgia, his hometown, and induction into both the Georgia Music Hall of Fame and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. - Metadata URL:
- https://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/arts-culture/otis-redding-1941-1967/m-5369/
- Rights Holder:
- Courtesy of Georgia Music Hall of Fame
Hargrett Rare Book and Manuscript Library, University of Georgia Libraries - Original Collection:
- http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/arts-culture/otis-redding-1941-1967
Forms part of: New Georgia Encyclopedia - Holding Institution:
- New Georgia Encyclopedia (Project)
- Rights:
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