Otis Jackson
USA
Otis Jackson is a Balladeer. Otis Jackson was born in Shreveport, Louisiana, and moved to Oxnard, California
with his family when he was a young boy. While attending school, he sang
in the choir, the A Cappella choir, and also sang lead in the church choir.
As a teen, he entered several talent shows, singing R&B and ballads,
winning top honors each time. He soon was noticed and wooed by several record
labels, including Double Shot and Motown, signing with Royal Crest Records
and recording "Lease On My Heart".
Otis has performed on shows and toured extensively throughout the United
States with several popular acts - The Whispers, Ike and Tina Turner, O
C Smith, Lou Rawls, Charles Wright and the 103rd Street Watts Band are a
few
of the acts with which he has performed. He was signed with Mega Records
and recorded "Message To The Ghetto". He toured for a few more
years and made the unselfish decision to take a sabbatical from music to
help raise his family. When his sons were teens and showed an interest in
the field of entertainment, Otis started an independent record label, Crate
Diggas Palace Records (CDP Records), invested in his sons and their crew
- the Lootpack (inclusive of Madlib, Wild Child and DJ Romes), Oh No, Declaime,
Kankick, Medaphoar, God's Gift, and Kazi) and helped to groom and guide their
development in the music of their choice, Underground Hip Hop.
Now that his sons, Madlib and Oh No the Disrupt, are on their own and doing
well with their producing, rapping and DJ'ing, Otis and his wife, Sinesca
Faddis-Jackson, have completed a collection of R&B love songs beautifully
encapsulated in an album entitled "The Art of Love". His two sons,
Madlib and Oh No the Disrupt, who have produced and performed nationally
and globally and are well known in the Underground Hip Hop genre all over
the world, were asked by Otis to join in the project and produce their creative
remixes of a couple of songs to be featured on the album. "The Art of
Love" was created from this family collaboration.
His powerful voice resonates with silky, smooth soul inspired by legendary
artists like Barry White and Isaac Hayes. Otis takes this classic balladeer
style and incorporates it with a fusion of funky base lines and melodic
guitar to soothe the senses. Otis Jackson is now poised to burst out of obscurity
with this collection of love songs.
Discography
"Lease on my Heart" single 7" vinyl on Royal Crest Records
"Turn Out the Lights" single 7" vinyl on Cal-Full Records
"Message to the Ghetto" single 7" vinyl on Mega Records
"It's All The Same" EP 12" vinyl on CDP Records
"Otis Jackson, The Art of Love" CD album on CDP Records