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June 5, 2010
Music
With his sex-drenched, foghorn voice, Isaac Hayes--the singer-songwriter-producer best known for the “Theme From Shaft”--was the Barry White of the early ‘70s.
May 3, 1994
Isaac Hayes, jazz singer?
Aug. 20, 1996
Isaac Hayes obituary: The obituary of singer Isaac Hayes in Monday’s Section A said that after the 1975 album “Chocolate Chip,” Hayes didn’t release new material until “Love Attack” in 1986.
Aug. 12, 2008
Sept. 16, 2014
Obituaries
Isaac Hayes, the musician, composer and producer whose innovative sound changed the shape of pop music and whose shaved head, bejeweled outfits and regal demeanor embodied African American masculinity in the 1970s, has died.
Aug. 11, 2008
Movies
Re “Isaac Hayes, 1942-2008,” Aug. 11 I have to disagree with The Times’ repeated use of the term “blaxploitation” in describing Isaac Hayes’ Academy Award-winning song from the Gordon Parks movie “Shaft.”
Aug. 16, 2008
Television
Show agrees to release Hayes over episodes he says go too far in mocking religions.
March 14, 2006
Stax Records co-founder helped build the soulful ‘Memphis sound’ embodied by Otis Redding, Isaac Hayes and the Staple Singers.
Dec. 6, 2022