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MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — Isaac Hayes, the pioneering singer, songwriter and musician whose relentless "Theme From Shaft" won Academy and Grammy awards, died Sunday, the Shelby County Sheriff's Office ...

On March 18, 2002, Isaac Hayes was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. Hayes was considered a pioneer of Southern soul music, winning an Oscar and three Grammys over the course of his career.

The decision to truncate album tracks for the singles market set a pattern. Follow-up album The Isaac Hayes Movement opened with a just-short of 12-minute cover of “I Stand Accused,” originally a 1964 ...

HURRICANE, W.Va. — Issac Hayes the musician is well known for performing the theme from the 1970s TV show “Shaft.” Isaac Hayes the golfer doesn’t sing “Shaft” but certainly is adept at swinging one.

In the year-long series Sounds Of Blaxploitation, Craig D. Lindsey plays the hits that defined a genre, drawing connections between the music of the moment and the films that gave it a platform. It’s ...