Inducted 2000

Influenced in his youth by the Virgil Stamps Quartet broadcasts on Dallas radio KRLD, Doy Ott fell in love with the sound and message of Southern Gospel and transferred that love into an influential career as a musician, singer, and vocal arranger. 

By the late 1930s, he was playing piano for Southern Gospel groups, ultimately serving as an accompanist for the Stamps-Baxter Melody Boys, the Hartford Quartet, the Rangers, and the Homeland Harmony. 

In 1951, he took a job with the relatively new Statesmen Quartet, filling in for pianist and manager Hovie Lister who was serving a stint in the military. When Lister returned the following year, Ott stayed becoming the group's baritone singer upon the departure of Bervin Kendrick. 

A Statesman for the next 25 years, Doy Ott became one of the best-known figures in Southern Gospel. His smooth voice and talented arrangements helped propel the group into what many consider to be the best overall quartet combination in Southern Gospel history.