Otis Cadillac and El Dorados featuring the Sublime Seville Sisters

Otis Cadillac and the El Dorados R&B Revue is a 12 piece band performing Classic R&B, Root Rock N’ Roll and Blues related material. The band performs in a style that mimics the R&B songs of the late 50s and early 60s. It is the goal of each performance to recreate the atmosphere and energy that gave birth to Rock N’ Roll in that era. The band chooses unique and different material that reveals the talents of its band members!

The Revue features the exceptionally talented female vocalist of the Sisters of Seville. Under the vocal direction of renowned teacher and performer Kat Riggins they deliver soulful vocals, featured solos, dance routines and stage antics to compliment Octogenarian lead singer Otis Cadillac.

Don’t look for an over-the-top, cheesy performance from this group. The seasoned veteran musicians who make up El Dorados roar through the music and fuel Otis and the Seville Sisters with an exciting, exciting, new, fun show guaranteed to get the fuller bun out of his seat.

EXECUTIVE PROFILE:

Otis Cadillac, born Otis Lincoln Washington on December 8, 1927 in Pecos, Texas to Walter Washington, a blacksmith and loving wife Netta Washington, a Pilates instructor.

Otis showed amazing talent with many musical instruments, as well as his hypnotic singing style. Soon, after those small towns could not develop the talents given to him by God, at the age of 15, Otis grabbed the guitar, harmonica, and the clothes on his back, and headed to the south of Mexico by mistake, where he discovered that he had been misled by some people. sure about the popularity of his beloved blues music south of the border. Fate being the harbinger of fate, it was there that he met the love of his life, Penelope Lopez. They married on 2 February 1944, and Penelope gave birth to their first child Marc Anthony a few hours later.

After saving money from his job as a tuck & roll specialist at a popular upholstery shop, young Otis and his new family headed north in search of like-minded people to hear his music. The family settled in Detroit where Otis took a job and discovered the second true love of his life, Cadillac. Working days at Cadillac assembly, and playing music at night, Otis was quickly befriended by blues legend Grapevine Robinson, who nicknamed Otis “Cadillac†, as he would come straight from work to the clubs still in his clothes. his work.

Otis stayed in Detroit for the next 49 years and honed his craft at clubs such as Hatties Juke Joint, Marmadukes’, Diddy’s and the Woodward Avenue Waffle House. Otis worked with many great musicians in his time, all of whom sing his praises to this day. This list includes famous artists such as “Hollywood” Henderson, Donald “Flea Bag” Sutton, “T-bone” Schwartzman, and of course the unforgettable “Primetime” Sanders, whose lives were tragically taken, while fleeing the execution of the law.

Now retired with time on his hands, a looted 401K, a beloved long-estranged wife, and an ungrateful son who took up harmonica, Otis is fulfilling his never-ending desire to share his music with the world. Please come see a venerable American treasure.