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Otis Clay (February 11, 1942 – January 8, 2016) was an American R&B and soul singer, who started in gospel music. In 2013, Clay was inducted to the Blues Hall of Fame. Clay was born in rural Bolivar County, Mississippi to a musical family, who moved in 1953 to Muncie, Indiana. After singing with local gospel group, the Voices of Hope, he returned to Mississippi to sing with the Christian Travelers, before settling in Chicago in 1957. There, he joined a series of gospel vocal groups including th
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OTIS CLAY
OUR HEARTS ARE BROKEN Heart & Soul artist management is very sad to announce Otis Clay passed away unexpectedly of a heart attack in the early evening of January 8, 2016.
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Otis
- Family name
- Clay
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of death
- Chicago
- Occupation
- singer-songwriter
- Genre
- soul
- Instrument
- voice
- Record label
- Cotillion Records
- Official website
- www.otisclay.net
- Image
- OtisClay LBBF1997 2.jpg
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- date of birth
- 1942-02-11
- date of death
- 2016-01-08
- place of burial
- Oak Woods Cemetery
- cause of death
- myocardial infarction
- manner of death
- natural causes
- Commons category
- Otis Clay
- start of work period
- 1957-00-00
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