United States, 39.76, -98.51960/1967Although 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.image/jpeghttp://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/arts-culture/otis-redding-1941-1967Forms part of: New Georgia Encyclopediahttp://rightsstatements.org/vocab/UND/1.0/http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/arts-culture/otis-redding-1941-1967Forms part of: New Georgia EncyclopediaMusicians--United StatesAfrican American musiciansMen--United StatesAfrican American menSingers--United StatesAfrican American singersSoul music--United StatesAfrican Americans--MusicSoul musicians--United StatesSound studios--United StatesRedding, Otis, d. 1967Otis ReddingStillImage