February 21, 2012

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Otis Redding (* September 9 1941 in Dawson , Georgia , † December 10 1967 at Madison , Wisconsin ) was an American musician and is considered one of the most influential soul singers of the 1960s.
Redding was the son of a black Baptist preacher in Dawson, Georgia very soon get a feel for soul music . Even as a teenager he sang in a church choir. At the age of 15 he attended high school in Macon , Georgia, the birthplace of Little Richard , whom he admired as much as Sam Cooke and from their two styles he shaped his singing. After termination of studies, he joined Little Richard’s band at the then, the Upsetters .
From 1960 he worked with Johnny Jenkins and the Pinetoppers together and took the band in July of that year under the name Otis and The Shooters his first album (“She’s all right”). Especially in these early recordings (during “Shout Bamalama,” also from 1960) still strongly based on the Little Richard can be seen.

The breakthrough came with his own solo career, but only in 1962. In October 1962, took Otis Redding his chance when he was recording at the end of an unsuccessful day of Johnny Jenkins & the Pinetoppers able to include in the time remaining a separate plate. The self-composed song “These Arms of Mine” was recorded in no time and developed after the publication in November 1962 to his first hit (U.S. R & B 20, U.S. pop 85).

This shot was at Stax Records in Memphis, Tennessee emerged that would become one of the most important soul labels of the sixties and seventies. Until his untimely death was one of the most important artists of the Otis Company and the opinion of all parties at that time musical heart and inspiration for all other participants. He thus became a major figure of the Memphis soul .