Nashay works as a home health aide in New Haven, Connecticut, where we both grew up. A few days ago, we talked about how unsettling the Christmas season is for families, like hers, living in an ...

On December 10, 1967, the plane carrying Otis Redding and his band the Bar-Kays crashed into the frigid waters of Lake Monona in Wisconsin, killing nearly everyone on board. Redding was only 26 years ...

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 were ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Otis Redding Jr.’s family has elected to carry on his legacy by partnering with Sony Music Publishing to administer the songs of ...

When Otis Redding entered Stax Studios on July 8, 1965, he had a single R&B Top 10 single on his resume. By the time he emerged a day later, he had recorded his best album, beat the Rolling Stones at ...

Georgia-born Otis Redding’s widow recalls life with and, for nearly 60 years now, without the famed soul singer, in her own words. Zelma Redding, widow of soul legend Otis Redding, seen here in a ...

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“I have magic in this building,” Karla Redding-Andrews, the daughter of Otis Redding, says on a cozy April afternoon in Macon, Ga. Speaking to a full hall of friends and partners, Redding-Andrews is ...

The pantheon of '60s-era musicians who died tragically young often gets shrunk into a holy trinity of Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin and Jim Morrison, all card-carrying members of the so-called 27 Club, ...