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September 9, 1941

Otis Redding

When the hit song, “Sittin’ on the Dock of the Bay,” went to number one on the charts in 1968, the artist who wrote and sang it had been dead for four months. Otis Redding became one of the most influential and popular soul musicians of all time. He was born in Dawson. When his […]

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Otis Redding was posthumously awarded the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 1999.