Otis Redding would have been 80 years old Thursday. Betty Freeman, who’s lived in Macon’s Greenwood Bottom neighborhood all her life, told me her mother worked with Redding when he was a youngster at ...

The state of Georgia officially declared Sept. 9 “Otis Redding Day,” on what would’ve been the late soul singer’s 80th birthday. On Thursday, the proclamation was formally announced during an event at ...

Today would have been Otis Redding’s 80th birthday. To honor the iconic soul singer’s legacy, the state of Georgia has officially declared the day Otis Redding Day. The Otis Redding Museum in his ...

Sept. 9 would have been the 80th birthday of the late soul legend, who was the original singer of the song that made Aretha Frankin the “Queen of Soul.” To commemorate the milestone, the “(Sittin’ on) ...