and by the age of ten he’d begun having drumming and singing lessons. Redding soon started playing with local bands and came to the attention of Atlantic Records, who signed Otis and sent him to ...

Lake Monona was ice cold on the afternoon of Dec. 10, 1967. A dismal fog shrouded ... the plane was filled with promising musicians. Otis Redding and his band the Bar-Kays had played shows in ...

Redding was just 3 years old when his father, Otis Redding, perished along with several band members in a plane crash on Dec. 10, 1967 ... of the Bay” and other songs of his famous father.