Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In the year-long series Sounds Of Blaxploitation, Craig D. Lindsey plays the hits that defined a genre, drawing connections ...

(CNN) -- Soul singer and arranger Isaac Hayes, who won Grammy awards and an Oscar for the theme from the 1971 action film ...

Isaac Hayes, 65, the Oscar-winning soul singer and songwriter whose swaggering "Theme From Shaft" became a signature sound of the 1970s, died Aug. 10 at his home outside Memphis. Steve Shular, a ...

Grammy-winning musician Isaac Hayes, pictured here around 1970, died in Tennessee on August 10 at 65Michael Ochs Archives / Getty Images Isaac Hayes packed a lot of achievement into his 65-year life, ...

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 ...

Isaac Hayes, who died this weekend at 65, had a varied and colorful career. He was a musician, an actor, and to the many fans of the animated show "South Park," he was the voice of Chef. But perhaps ...

St. Louis’ Bernie Hayes witnessed history in the making when a young Isaac Hayes and members of The BarKays were entrusted with creating the theme song and soundtrack for a Gordon Parks’ film named ...

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 ...

“Shaft” toes the line between film score and soundtrack, which is sort of the point. The movie’s opening track is undisputedly iconic. But the rest of Hayes’ score is equally effecting in its blend of ...