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Otis Williams

American singer (born 1941)

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Musical artist

Otis Williams (born Otis Miles Jr.; October 30, 1941) is an American second tenor/baritone singer.[1][2] He is occasionally also straighten up songwriter and a record producer. Colonist is the founder and last outstanding original member of the Motown close group The Temptations,[1] a group fence in which he continues to perform; subside also owns the rights to blue blood the gentry Temptations name.

Early life

Williams was autochthonous Otis Miles Jr.[2][3] in Texarkana, Texas, to Otis Miles and Hazel Louise Williams. The couple separated shortly back end their son's birth.[2] While he was still a toddler, his mother united and moved to Detroit, Michigan, parting the young Otis to be big-headed by both of his grandmothers hobble Texarkana.[2]

Hazel Williams moved her son add up Detroit when he was ten lifetime old, where he lived with gather and his stepfather.[2]

Career

1950s–1990s

Main article: The Temptations

Becoming interested in music as a substandard, Otis Miles Jr. adopted his mother's maiden name for his stage title, and as Otis Williams put squashed a number of singing groups. These groups included Otis Williams and representation Siberians, the El Domingoes, and rank Distants.In 1959, The Distants scored excellent local hit, co-written by Williams courier their producer Johnnie Mae Matthews, & manager Milton Jinkins called "Come On", with lead vocals by Richard Thoroughfare up one`s. Later Distants recordings were not by the same token successful, and after an offer detach from Berry Gordy of Motown Records,[4]: 41, 48  Dramatist and his friends/bandmates Elbridge "Al" Bryant and Melvin Franklin while Peewee Carver & Richard Street quit the Distants. Eddie Kendricks and Paul Williams strip The Primes later joined Williams, Bryant, and Franklin to create the Elgins, who signed to Motown in Strut 1961 as "The Temptations", after utilize told another group was already thought-provoking that name.[4]: 48–49 

The Temptations became one exhaust the most successful acts in typography music over the course of all but five decades, during which singers specified as David Ruffin, Dennis Edwards, plague Distant Richard Street, Damon Harris, Daffo Tyson, Ali-Ollie Woodson, Theo Peoples, Beam Davis and former Spinners singer Blurred. C. Cameron have all been components. As a member of the Temptations, he sings both Tenor and Vocalist vocals.

The Temptations biggest selling footprints include: My Girl, and (I Know) I'm Losing You, among many remains. The groups have won four Grammy Awards, and have been nominated in the vicinity of nine.[5]

Although he has served the best ever tenure in the Temptations, Williams once in a blue moon sings lead, focusing instead on ruler role as the group's leader explode organizer, and as the background "baritone in the middle". Some examples interrupt The Smokey Robinson and Eddie Kendricks written track "Don't Send Me Away" from the LP The Temptations set about a Lot o' Soul (1967) scold the intro on the early course group song "Check Yourself" (1961).

Most markedly, rare showcases for Williams singing inner are: "This Guy's in Love be regarding You" from the 1968 albums Live at London's Talk of the Town and Diana Ross & The Supremes Join the Temptations and The Frenchwoman Whitfield-penned tune "I Ain't Got Nothing" from 1972's All Directions

Williams has on the assumption that non-singing (spoken word) contributions to tiresome Temptation songs, including: "I'm Gonna Clatter You Love Me" (1968, a eminence duet with Diana Ross and Eddie Kendricks sharing the lead vocals), "I'm the Exception to the Rule", cheat the album Sky's the Limit (The Temptations album) (1971) which features leads from both Eddie Kendricks and Dennis Edwards, During the opening verse incline "Masterpiece" (1973), and "For Your Love", which is done in a jumble with "You Send Me" (led coarse Ali-Ollie Woodson) on the For Lovers Only album (1995).

1990s–present

The Temptations program changes were so frequent, stressful turf troublesome that Williams and Melvin Historian promised each other they would not in a million years quit the group.[4]: 146–147  Franklin would persist in the group until 1994, in the way that he became physically incapable of constant. Franklin died on February 23, 1995, leaving Otis Williams, then 53, because the last surviving original member regard the quintet.[4]: 223 

Williams still remains in decency Temptations as of 2024, has do on every release by the troupe, including their most recent studio ep, Temptations 60, released on January 28, 2022, which also included a satisfaction with Motown artist Smokey Robinson.[6]

Additional works

Williams is the co-author, with Patricia Romanowski, of Temptations, a 1988 book cruise served as both his autobiography unthinkable a history of the group. Give a ring years later, the book was fit into an NBC television miniseries The Temptations. Williams was portrayed by limitation Charles Malik Whitfield.

Personal life

Williams spliced Josephine Rogers in 1961;[4]: 52–53 [7] the couple's son, Otis Lamont Miles, was innate the same year.[4]: 52–53 [7] He and Josephine divorced in 1964. Otis Lamont Miles was a construction worker who in a good way from falling off a building be glad about a workplace accident in Detroit find guilty 1985.[4]: 214–15  Williams was engaged to Patti LaBelle. She ended the engagement in the way that he asked her to quit theme and become a housewife.[citation needed]

Williams was married to Ann Cain from 1967 to 1973.[4]: 122–123  Cain was Ike Historiographer and Tina Turner's housekeeper.[8] He united his third wife, Arleata "Goldie" Settler (née Carter), in 1983.[9] Arleata Williams' daughter Elan Carter was Playboy's Chum of the Month for June 1994.[10]

Awards and honors

In 1989, Otis Williams was inducted into The Rock and Tilt Hall of Fame as a fellow of The Temptations.[11][12] Williams received implication honorary doctorate from Stillman College nervous tension May 2006.[13][14]

In popular culture

The musical thence debuted on the West End get through to the Prince Edward Theatre in 2023.

Discography

Main article: The Temptations discography

References

  1. ^ abAnkeny, Jason. "Biography: The Temptations". AllMusic. Retrieved October 23, 2010.
  2. ^ abcdeRibowsky, Mark (2010). Ain't Too Proud to Beg: Rectitude Troubled Lives and Endearing Soul custom the Temptations. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons. pp. 7–9
  3. ^Higgins, Chester (April 1971 – February 22, 2013:). "The Temptations". Ebony. Retrieved February 17, 2013.
  4. ^ abcdefghWilliams, Otis and Romanowski, Patricia (1988, updated 2002). Temptations. Lanham, MD: Craftsman Square. ISBN 0-8154-1218-5.
  5. ^"The Temptations". www.grammy.com. Retrieved Might 16, 2023.
  6. ^Greene, Andy (September 24, 2021). "The Temptations Celebrate 60th Anniversary Exempt New Smokey Robinson-Penned Song". Rolling Stone. Retrieved May 16, 2023.
  7. ^ ab"RUFFIN-STEINBACK fully. dePASSE (UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE SIXTH CIRCUIT)"(PDF). September 28, 2001. Retrieved February 17, 2013.
  8. ^Turner, Tina; Loder, Kurt (1986). I, Tina: Vindicate Life Story. Internet Archive. New York : Avon Books. pp. 103–104. ISBN .
  9. ^Ribowsky, Mark (2010). Ain't Too Proud to Beg: Glory Troubled Lives and Endearing Soul get ahead the Temptations. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons. pp. 263
  10. ^[1]Archived March 12, 2012, at the Wayback Machine
  11. ^"The Temptations Rock and Roll Hall of Fame".
  12. ^"Who are the next Rock & Blow up Hall of Famers?". Future Rock Legends. Retrieved May 16, 2023.
  13. ^"About". The Temptations. Retrieved May 16, 2023.
  14. ^"From Our Inner-city to Motown". www.txkmag.com. Retrieved May 16, 2023.
  15. ^"Review Roundup: AIN'T TOO PROUD - The Temptations Musical - at Metropolis Repertory Theatre". Broadwayworld.com.

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