Otis Redding III, who played alongside brother Dexter in The Reddings, died of cancer on Tuesday in Georgia Rachel DeSantis is a senior writer on the music team at PEOPLE. She has been working ...

On this day in 1968, this first-ever no. 1 hit posthumous record was released by beloved late singer/songwriter Otis Redding.

The New York Times gave only four inches at the bottom of a column on page 19 to the death exactly one month ago of Otis Redding. The Times reported the plane crash and listed the musicians who ...

Almost exactly 47 years ago, music legend Otis Redding died after his plane crashed in Lake Monona. Now his memory is eternalized through a plaque in front of a marble bench on the roof of Monona ...

The Otis Redding Foundation, run by the singer’s family, never had its own physical hub for youth music programs until now, ...

A longtime dream of R&B/soul legend Otis Redding has finally come true. The Otis Redding Foundation is announcing the opening ...

Otis Redding died when on tour in December 1967, he and his band flew to their next concert in Wisconsin amid terrible weather despite warnings from the likes of James Brown, and the plane along ...

And in every last one of the cases, the songs have taken on whole new meanings after their creators died. On a December night in 1967, Otis Redding was flying in his own small private plane from ...