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August 10th, 2008, 10:33 PM
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 said. He was 65.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/telegraph/multimedia/archive/00788/Isaac-Hayes-460c_788818c.jpg Isaac Hayes performing at the World of Music and Dance festival in Redmond, Washington Photo: AP
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/telegraph/multimedia/archive/00788/Isaac-Hayes-460a_788817c.jpg Isaac Hayes and his wife Adjowa Hayes, posing for the first family photo with their new baby boy, Nana Kwadjo Hayes, in Memphis, 2006 Photo: AP
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/telegraph/multimedia/archive/00788/Isaac-Hayes-460b_788816c.jpg Isaac Hayes performing in the Wattstax Revue at the Montreux Jazz Festival Photo: REUTERS
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/telegraph/multimedia/archive/00788/South-Park_788843c.jpg The character of South Park's Chef [centre], voiced by Isaac Hayes Photo: AP
The pioneering singer, songwriter and composer, who along with Al Green, James Brown and Stevie Wonder, was one of the dominant black musicians of the early 1970s, was found unconscious near a treadmill in his house on Sunday by a family member.
Paramedics administered CPR and he was taken to hospital but pronounced dead about an hour later, officials said. The cause of death was not released. Hayes suffered a stroke in 2006.
In the early 1970s, Hayes, with his distinctive deep voice and hook-laden compositions, laid the groundwork for genres including disco, contemporary urban music and rap as well as romantic crooners such as Barry White.
The tall, shaven-headed musician, whose trademark look featured dark sunglasses and plentiful jewellery, emerged as a recording artists in the late 1960s with his soul albums Hot Buttered Soul in 1969, followed by Black Moses, 1971. Both were released on Stax Records, the southern soul label which hired him as a backup pianist in 1964. He worked as a session musician for Otis Redding and others and also played saxophone.
He began writing songs, establishing a partnership with David Porter, and in the 1960s they wrote such hits for Sam and Dave as "Hold On, I'm Coming" and "Soul Man."
His career hit another high in 1997 when he became the voice of Chef, the sensible school cook and devoted ladies man on the animated TV show South Park.
In a 1999 interview, Hayes described the South Park cook as "a person that speaks his mind; he's sensitive enough to care for children; he's wise enough to not be put into the 'whack' category like everybody else in town - and he l-o-o-o-o-ves the ladies".
But Hayes quit the show in 2006 in anger after an episode mocked his Scientology religion. "There is a place in this world for satire, but there is a time when satire ends and intolerance and bigotry towards religious beliefs of others begins," he said.
Raised by his maternal grandparents after his mother died and his father left when he was a baby, Hayes originally wanted to be a doctor, but changed his mind after winning a school talent contest by singing Nat King Cole's Looking Back.
Fucking hell.
You may have fallen away at the end there, but you'll always be remembered for your brilliance as Chef.
R.I.P
p.s Fucking hell.... chef ;__;
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/telegraph/multimedia/archive/00788/Isaac-Hayes-460c_788818c.jpg Isaac Hayes performing at the World of Music and Dance festival in Redmond, Washington Photo: AP
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/telegraph/multimedia/archive/00788/Isaac-Hayes-460a_788817c.jpg Isaac Hayes and his wife Adjowa Hayes, posing for the first family photo with their new baby boy, Nana Kwadjo Hayes, in Memphis, 2006 Photo: AP
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/telegraph/multimedia/archive/00788/Isaac-Hayes-460b_788816c.jpg Isaac Hayes performing in the Wattstax Revue at the Montreux Jazz Festival Photo: REUTERS
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/telegraph/multimedia/archive/00788/South-Park_788843c.jpg The character of South Park's Chef [centre], voiced by Isaac Hayes Photo: AP
The pioneering singer, songwriter and composer, who along with Al Green, James Brown and Stevie Wonder, was one of the dominant black musicians of the early 1970s, was found unconscious near a treadmill in his house on Sunday by a family member.
Paramedics administered CPR and he was taken to hospital but pronounced dead about an hour later, officials said. The cause of death was not released. Hayes suffered a stroke in 2006.
In the early 1970s, Hayes, with his distinctive deep voice and hook-laden compositions, laid the groundwork for genres including disco, contemporary urban music and rap as well as romantic crooners such as Barry White.
The tall, shaven-headed musician, whose trademark look featured dark sunglasses and plentiful jewellery, emerged as a recording artists in the late 1960s with his soul albums Hot Buttered Soul in 1969, followed by Black Moses, 1971. Both were released on Stax Records, the southern soul label which hired him as a backup pianist in 1964. He worked as a session musician for Otis Redding and others and also played saxophone.
He began writing songs, establishing a partnership with David Porter, and in the 1960s they wrote such hits for Sam and Dave as "Hold On, I'm Coming" and "Soul Man."
His career hit another high in 1997 when he became the voice of Chef, the sensible school cook and devoted ladies man on the animated TV show South Park.
In a 1999 interview, Hayes described the South Park cook as "a person that speaks his mind; he's sensitive enough to care for children; he's wise enough to not be put into the 'whack' category like everybody else in town - and he l-o-o-o-o-ves the ladies".
But Hayes quit the show in 2006 in anger after an episode mocked his Scientology religion. "There is a place in this world for satire, but there is a time when satire ends and intolerance and bigotry towards religious beliefs of others begins," he said.
Raised by his maternal grandparents after his mother died and his father left when he was a baby, Hayes originally wanted to be a doctor, but changed his mind after winning a school talent contest by singing Nat King Cole's Looking Back.
Fucking hell.
You may have fallen away at the end there, but you'll always be remembered for your brilliance as Chef.
R.I.P
p.s Fucking hell.... chef ;__;