11 Facts About Otis Williams

Otis Williams is occasionally a songwriter and a record producer.

Hazel Otis Williams moved her son to Detroit when he was ten years old, where he lived with her and his stepfather.

Otis Williams still remains in the Temptations as of 2024, and has performed on every release by the band, including their most recent studio album, Temptations 60, released on January 28,2022, which included a collaboration with Motown artist Smokey Robinson.

Otis Williams is the co-author, with Patricia Romanowski, of Temptations, a 1988 book that served as both his autobiography and a history of the group.

Williams married Josephine Rogers in 1961; the couple's son, Otis Lamont Miles, was born the same year.

Otis Williams Lamont Miles was a construction worker who died from falling off a building in a workplace accident in Detroit in 1985.

Otis Williams ended the engagement when he asked her to quit music and become a housewife.

Otis Williams was married to Ann Cain from 1967 to 1973.

Otis Williams married his third wife, Arleata "Goldie" Williams, in 1983.

In 1989, Otis Williams was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of the Temptations.

Otis Williams received an honorary doctorate from Stillman College in May 2006.