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  1. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Isaac_HayesIsaac Hayes - Wikipedia

    Isaac Lee Hayes Jr. (August 20, 1942 – August 10, 2008) was an American singer, songwriter, composer, and actor. He was one of the creative forces behind the Southern soul music label Stax Records, serving as both an in-house songwriter and as a session musician and record producer, teaming with his partner David Porter during the mid-1960s.

  2. Hayes began his career as a pianist and staff writer for Stax Records, and, alongside songwriting partner David Porter, wrote some of the biggest hits of the 1960’s, including “Soul...

  3. Aug 20, 2023 · The best Isaac Hayes songs revolutionized soul music, spearheaded symphonic soul and helped to invent the Blaxploitation genre.

  4. www.imdb.com › name › nm0005002Isaac Hayes - IMDb

    Isaac Hayes. Actor: Escape from New York. Isaac Hayes, the second-born child of Eula and Isaac Hayes Sr., was raised by his grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Willie Wade Sr. The child of a poor family, he grew up picking cotton in Covington, Tennessee.

  5. Jun 20, 2024 · Isaac Hayes was an American singer-songwriter, musician, and actor who was a pioneering figure in soul music. His recordings influenced the development of such musical genres as disco, rap, and urban contemporary.

  6. All 19:00 of The Black Moses' grooved-out cover of the Jimmy Webb classic. From the quietly chilling 9-minute long backstory all the way through to the epic organ and horn solo finish, it's all ...

  7. Nearly five decades after the days of Stax and Shaft, he’s one of the most sampled artists of all time. And yet there’s new ground to break: Tracklib now unearths never-before-heard songs and...

  8. Aug 11, 2008 · Isaac Hayes, the singer and songwriter whose luxurious, strutting funk arrangements in songs like “Theme From ‘Shaft’ ” defined the glories and excesses of soul music in the early 1970s,...

  9. Apr 11, 2012 · Soul singer Isaac Hayes - who wrote the Shaft film soundtrack - died after being found unconscious by his wife beside a running treadmill at his home, it was revealed today.

  10. Isaac Hayes, best known for revolutionizing and broadening the direction of soul music, was born on a farm in Covington, Tennessee, in 1942. Raised by his grandparents, he played saxophone and piano growing up, and after high school played in various jazz bands.