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Otis Byrd, Jr. is a native of Atlanta, Georgia, born to Diana Byrd and the late Reverend Otis Byrd, Sr. He is a 2002 graduate of Roswell High School and a 2020 graduate of Morehouse College, earning a Bachelor of Arts degree in Music with a concentration in Conducting. While matriculating, he toured and was a soloist with the world-renowned Morehouse College Glee Club. Otis has been singing since a child getting much of his rich spiritual foundation from his home church, Lindsay Street Baptist Church, under the pastorate of Reverend A. A. W. Motley, and Christ Fellowship of Atlanta, under the leadership of Pastor Chuck Strong. Growth continued as he started directing choirs at the age of 15 and continued to serve and lead the music ministries of: Woodward Baptist Church, under the pastorate of his late father; Gospel Tabernacle Church, Bishop Wiley Jackson; Midway Missionary Baptist Church, Reverend Edward S. Reynolds; and Mount Carmel Baptist Church, Reverend Timothy Flemming, Sr. Currently, he serves the historic Antioch Baptist Church North in Atlanta, Georgia and has served that congregation for over 15 years under the leadership of the late Reverend Dr. C. M. Alexander and, currently, Pastor Kenneth L. Alexander. Minister Byrd has served as the Director and Music Consultant for the Martin Luther King, Jr. Chapel Choir of Morehouse College and is the Founder and Director of Otis Byrd, Jr. and Adoration, a community choir founded in 2007. They released their debut project, “The Experience”, in 2010 and their single, “He Is”, in June 2016. Under his leadership, Adoration has shared the stage with such greats as Ricky Dillard, Hezekiah Walker, Pastor Charles Jenkins, Natasha Bedingfield, Kelly Clarkson and many others.
On June 25, 2017, Minister Byrd preached his trial sermon and was licensed as a minister in the Lord’s church. Currently, he is a senior in the Master of Divinity program at Princeton Theological Seminary. As a seminarian he has conducted the Chapel Choir, reorganized the Gospel Choir, interned at the Office of Religious Life at Princeton University serving both the University Chapel and Hallelujah Church, and interned at Alfred Street Baptist Church in Alexandria, Virginia.
