Dr. Otis Clayborn Williams, founding member of the world-renowned, Grammy Award-winning group, The Temptations, is a music legend. From award-winning singer, songwriter to critically acclaimed author, from television producer, and Broadway executive producer to executive producer of the group’s albums, Williams defied all odds, having gone from the dirt roads of rural Texas to the highest heights of Detroit, Motown, and beyond.
Formed in Detroit in 1953 as the Four Aims, the group soon changed its name to the Four Tops to avoid confusion with the Ames Brothers. What began as four high school friends singing at a birthday party would become one of the most enduring and influential vocal groups in American music history.