© 2025 The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. All Rights Reserved. MACON — This is where Little Richard took his first breath, where Otis Redding was raised, and where ...

A 1986 Florida Sun-Suntinel article claimed that the singer, born Richard Wayne Penniman in Macon, Georgia, had officially converted to Judaism with the encouragement of Bob Dylan. Little Richard ...

People said it in the 1950s when rock ’n’ roll icon and Macon native Little Richard hit it big. They repeated it about 10 years later when rhythm and blues singer Otis Redding burst on the scene.