Royel Otis Announce 2025 US Tour Dates
Australian duo Royel Otis have announced their 2025 “meet me in the car” US tour, set for this summer and fall. The headlining run kicks off in Seattle on August 5th and will also feature stops […]
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John Boyega to Play Otis Redding in Biopic Otis & Zelma
John Boyega has been tapped to play the legendary soul singer Otis Redding in the new film Otis & Zelma, a biopic following the artist’s long-term relationship with his widow, Zelma Redding. Boyega, best known […]
Royel Otis Cover Of ‘Linger’ By The Cranberries
Getty Image / Jamie McCarthy / iStock / Daniil Dubov Without looking at the numbers, I’m fairly certain I listened to the Royel Otis cover of ‘Linger‘ well over a hundred times this past weekend […]
Blues musician Otis Taylor graduates high school 57 years after getting expelled
In 1966, a couple months before he was set to graduate, Otis Taylor was told he needed to cut his short afro or he’d be kicked out. Now, 57 years after he left, he has […]
Nile Rodgers and Otis Williams on Black Music’s Revolution – Rolling Stone
In Episode Three of Hulu’s The 1619 Project, narrator and Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones argues that Black Americans have, and still do, create and transform America’s musical landscape. In between a narrative arc examining […]