Otis Redding

Otis Redding is the kind of artist who makes you genuinely mourn a future that never happened. Born in Dawson, Georgia in 1941 and gone at just 26 in a plane crash, he packed more raw human emotion into a handful of years than most singers manage in a lifetime. That voice — unpolished, urgent, aching — wasn't doing tricks; it was just telling the truth. His 1967 Monterey Pop performance alone is enough to cement his legend, and "(Sittin' On) The Dock of the Bay, released posthumously, somehow captures both contentment and loss in the same breath. The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction in 1989 and the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 1999 are well-earned, but honestly, the real testament is that more than half a century after his death, people still reach for his records when words aren't enough.

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Name (English)

Otis Redding

Name (Japanese)

オーティス・レディング

Reading

おーてぃす・れでぃんぐ

Born

September 9, 1941 – December 10, 1967

Origin

Dawson, Georgia, United States

Occupation

singer / singer-songwriter

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Virgo / Snake

High school

Ballard-Hudson High School

Awards & achievements

• 1999 Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award
• Grammy Awards
• 1989 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
• star on Hollywood Walk of Fame

• Official sitehttps://otisredding.com
• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/otisredding/
• Xhttps://x.com/otisredding
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otis%20Redding
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%AA%E3%83%BC%E3%83%86%E3%82%A3%E3%82%B9%E3%83%BB%E3%83%AC%E3%83%87%E3%82%A3%E3%83%B3%E3%82%B0
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q217839

Tags

• Georgia
• singer
• singer-songwriter

Last updated

October 18, 2026

Only publicly available facts are listed; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. Base data was compiled from Wikidata from June 2026 onward; ages are recalculated daily and deaths are checked against Wikidata on an ongoing basis. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.