Expanding from 35 to 75 entries, this latest iteration kicked off Monday (June 16) with the reveal of the artists ranked ...

It’s Black Music Month, and Billboard, the music biz bible, has come up with its list of the 75 best R&B artists of all time.

Michael Jackson, who became one of the most famous singers of all time, ... David Bowie, Michael Jackson, Jimi Hendrix, and Otis Redding cited Little Richard as an influence.

Otis Redding’s last week: The tragic story of “Dock of the Bay” and a fateful final flight The soul icon recorded the song he might be best known for -- then left Nashville on the plane that ...

Otis Redding died in a Dec. 10, 1967, plane crash near Madison, Wisconsin. Cyrus Andrews/Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images; Bettmann Otis Redding’s “(Sittin’ on) The Dock of the Bay ...

“Me being a purist kind of guy I said, ‘Otis, did you ever think that if a ship rolls it’s going to take on water and sink,'” Cropper recalls, “and he said about the lyric, ‘Hell, Crop ...

John Boyega and Danielle Deadwyler will play soul legend Otis Redding and his wife ... She’s currently garnering awards buzz for her work opposite Samuel L. Jackson and John David Washington in ...