the Bar-Kays, crashed into Lake Monona. The group was on its way to a concert in Madison, Wisconsin. Redding was survived by his wife, Zelma Atwood, and their four children Otis Redding III ...

Otis Redding, 26 years old, a former well-driller from Macon, Georgia, died in a plane crash in an icy Wisconsin lake on December 10. With him were the five teen-age members of the Bar-Kays ...

The Legacy of Otis Redding’s Posthumous Hit ... be his biggest posthumous hit in 1967 while touring with the Bar-Kays. His fame had started to grow stateside, and countless fans were ...

It’s quite staggering to think that Otis Redding’s signature song ... as a matter of fact, after Redding and most of the Bar-Kays perished in a plane crash en route to a gig.

On board were soul music pioneer Otis Redding and his backing band The Bar-Kays. Tragically, Redding, his 17-year-old valet, the plane’s pilot and four members of the Bar-Kays, the oldest aged ...

He was grateful for Otis Redding’s enduring legacy, he said ... Mr. Cauley was a trumpet player with the Bar-Kays and helped rebuild the R&B group after the accident. “Beale Street Dynasty ...

Like, the story of the Bar-Kays is really unbelievable, right? Like, very sadly, most of your band had died in a plane crash, the plane crash that also killed Otis Redding, five years before this ...

things were going swimmingly for the Bar-Kays. While they were still finishing high school, their first single, “Soul Finger,” made it onto the Billboard Hot 100. Even better, Otis Redding ...

Otis Music Camp runs June 2nd – 21st The Otis Redding Foundation celebrates Otis Redding’s ongoing legacy with the Otis Redding Statue, a life-size bronze sculpture that pays tribute to the King of ...

The Otis Redding Center for the Arts officially opened its doors today in downtown Macon at the corner of Cherry Street and Cotton Avenue. The Redding family says their dad would be proud of the ...