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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...
- 19 min
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- Einyo
Dec 8, 2021 · Isaac Hayes (left), the first Black winner of the best original song Oscar, and presenter Joel Grey on April 10, 1972. Six years later (inset), Black artists called for an Oscar boycott, citing ...
Isaac Hayes performs "Shaft" at the 2002 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony.Looking for more Induction Ceremony memories from Isaac Hayes? Visit his...
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- Rock & Roll Hall of Fame
Soulsville Isaac Hayes was born in the rural poverty of a sharecropper's family on August 20, 1942, in Covington, Tennessee, about thirty miles south of Memphis. Orphaned in infancy, he and his sister Willette were raised up by their maternal grandparents, Willie and Rushia Addie-Mae Wade. They instilled love in Hayes for the simple pleasures of country life. "We raised our own foods," he says, "we raised most of our crops, we had cattle, we had pork. Our corn was ground at the grist mill ...
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Apr 11, 2012 · 'Isaac Hayes embodies everything that's soul music' said Collin Stanback, an executive from the singer's record label, Stax. The black icon, whose work paved the way for disco and rap, won a new ...
