Carl Sims

Carl Sims came to fame later in life, scoring his first Southern soul hits in the late '90s, 30 years after he first started singing as a teenager in Memphis, Tennessee. When he was 16, he caught the ear of Otis Redding, who hired Sims after hearing him sing with Stax house band the Bar-Kays in local clubs. Sims wound up just missing the tragic plane flight that killed Redding in 1967 -- an incident that would put him in history books, but Sims turned into a survivor, working Southern soul circuits for three decades before releasing his debut, House of Love, in 1995. From that...