The naming was made official at a ceremony held on Hayes's birth anniversary in. MP3 audio interview with Stax Records expert Rob Bowman on the radio program The Sound of Young.Isaac Hayes - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Isaac Hayes. Hayes performing in 2. Background information. Birth name. Isaac Lee Hayes, Jr. Born(1. 94. 2- 0. August 2. 0, 1. 94. Issac Hayes; Howlin' Wolf; B.B. King; Jerry Lee Lewis. Induction Ceremony News & Updates; Discover New Memphis Artists; Issac Hayes. Isaac received his musical training in the Memphis City Schools band program. In 1972, Isaac Hayes performed 'Theme from Shaft' as part of the Academy Awards ceremony in his trademark chainmail vest, but accepted the award later that night wearing a tuxedo. The program will culminate with a graduation ceremony featuring Division of Parks and Neighborhoods Director Janet Hooks as the keynote speaker. Music Commission dishes Issac Hayes Unsung By Nyah Nile. New Compilation Album From Isaac Hayes The Ultimate Collection; I suppose that I am spoiled, see I live in NJ so therefore I get to hear the voice of Isaac Hayes on the radio each and every morning during my commute to work. Memphis, Tennessee, U. S. Origin. Shelby County, Tennessee, U. S. Died. August 1. Memphis, Tennessee, U. S. Hayes was one of the creative forces behind the southern soul music label Stax Records, where he served both as an in- house songwriter and as a session musician and record producer, teaming with his partner David Porter during the mid- 1. Hayes and Porter, along with Bill Withers, the Sherman Brothers, Steve Cropper, and John Fogerty were inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2. Sam & Dave, Carla Thomas, and others. Hayes is also a 2. Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. It was also honored by The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, by Rolling Stone magazine, and by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) as one of the Songs of the Century. During the late 1. Hayes also began a career as a recording artist. He had several successful soul albums such as Hot Buttered Soul (1. Black Moses (1. 97. In addition to his work in popular music, he worked as a composer of musical scores for motion pictures. He was well known for his musical score for the film Shaft (1. He became the third African- American, after Sidney Poitier and Hattie Mc. Daniel, to win an Academy Award in any competitive field covered by Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. He also won two Grammy Awards for that same year. Later, he was given his third Grammy for his music album Black Moses. In recognition of his humanitarian work there Hayes was crowned honorary king of the Ada, Ghana region in 1. He acted in motion pictures and television, such as in the movies Truck Turner and I'm Gonna Git You Sucka, and as Gandolf . From 1. 99. 7 to 2. Chef on the animated TV series South Park. His influences were Percy Mayfield, Big Joe Turner, James Brown, Jerry Butler, Sam Cooke, Fats Domino, Marvin Gaye, Otis Redding, and psychedelic soul groups like The Chambers Brothers and Sly and the Family Stone. On August 5, 2. 00. Hayes was honored as a BMI Icon at the 2. BMI Urban Awards for his enduring influence on generations of music makers. As of 2. 00. 8, his songs generated more than 1. He was the second child of Eula (n. The child of a sharecropper family, he grew up working on farms in Shelby County, Tennessee, and in Tipton County. At age five Hayes began singing at his local church; he taught himself to play the piano, the Hammond organ, the flute, and the saxophone. Hayes dropped out of high school, but his former teachers at Manassas High School in Memphis encouraged him to complete his diploma, which he did at age 2. After graduating from high school, Hayes was offered several music scholarships from colleges and universities. He turned down all of them to provide for his immediate family, working at a meat- packing plant in Memphis by day and playing nightclubs and juke joints several evenings a week in Memphis and nearby northern Mississippi. He later wrote a string of hit songs with songwriting partner David Porter, including . Hayes, Porter and Stax studio band Booker T. Hayes- Porter contributed to the Stax sound made famous during this period, and Sam & Dave credited Hayes for helping develop both their sound and style. In 1. 96. 8, Hayes released his debut album, Presenting Isaac Hayes, a jazzy, largely improvised effort that was commercially unsuccessful. The label had lost its largest star, Otis Redding, in a plane crash in December 1. Stax lost all of its back catalog to Atlantic Records in May 1. As a result, Stax executive vice president Al Bell called for 2. Hot Buttered Soul, was the most successful of these releases. Also on the album, Hayes reinterpreted . The former stuck to the four- song template of his previous album. The latter spawned the classic . An edited three- minute version was issued as a single. Hayes released a Christmas single, . The title theme, with its wah- wah guitar and multi- layered symphonic arrangement, would become a worldwide hit single, and spent two weeks at number one in the Billboard Hot 1. November. The remainder of the album was mostly instrumentals covering big beat jazz, bluesy funk, and hard Stax- styled soul. The other two vocal songs, the social commentary . Atlantic would re- release Hayes's debut album this year with the new title In The Beginning. He moved away from cover songs with this album. Tough Guys was almost devoid of vocals and Truck Turner yielded a single with the title theme. The soundtrack score was eventually used by filmmaker Quentin Tarantino in the Kill Bill film series and has been used for over 3. Brazilian radio show Jornal de Esportes on the Jovem Pan station. Unlike most African- American musicians of the period, Hayes did not sport an Afro; his bald head became one of his defining characteristics. HBS (Hot Buttered Soul Records) and bankruptcy. Hayes himself was deep in debt to Union Planters Bank, which administered loans for the Stax label and many of its other key employees. In September of that year, Hayes sued Stax for $5. As Stax was in deep debt and could not pay, the label made an arrangement with Hayes and Union Planters: Stax released Hayes from his recording and production contracts, and Union Planters would collect all of Hayes's income and apply it towards his debts. Hayes formed his own label, Hot Buttered Soul, which released its product through ABC Records. His new album, 1. Chocolate Chip saw Hayes embrace the disco sound with the title track and lead single. This would be Hayes's last album to chart top 4. Later in the year, the all instrumental Disco Connection album fully embraced disco. In 1. 97. 6, the album cover of Juicy Fruit featured Hayes in a pool with naked women, and spawned the title track single and the classic . Later the same year the Groove- A- Thon album featured the singles . However, while all these albums were regarded as solid efforts, Hayes was no longer selling large numbers. He and his wife were forced into bankruptcy in 1. By the end of the bankruptcy proceedings in 1. Hayes had lost his home, much of his personal property, and the rights to all future royalties earned from the music he had written, performed, and produced. Basketball team ownership. Finley, the owner of the Oakland A's baseball team. Hayes's group renamed the team the Memphis Sounds. Despite a 6. 6% increase in home attendance, hiring well regarded coach Joe Mullaney and, unlike in the prior three seasons, making the 1. ABA Playoffs (losing to the eventual champion Kentucky Colonels in the Eastern Division semifinals), the team's financial problems continued. The group was given a deadline of June 1, 1. Mid- South Coliseum. The group did not come through and the ABA took over the team, selling it to a group in Maryland that renamed the team the Baltimore Hustlers and then the Baltimore Claws before the club finally folded during preseason play for the 1. The same year, Fantasy Records, which had bought out Stax Records, released an album of Hayes's non- album singles and archived recordings as a . Later in the year he added vocals and worked on Millie Jackson's album Royal Rappin's, and a song he co- wrote, . In the 1. 98. 0s and 1. Escape from New York (1. I'm Gonna Git You Sucka (1. Prime Target (1. 99. Robin Hood: Men in Tights (1. The A- Team and Miami Vice. He also attempted a musical comeback, embracing the style of drum machines and synth for 1. U- Turn and 1. 98. Love Attack, though neither proved successful. In 1. 99. 1 he was featured in a duet with fellow soul singer Barry White on White's ballad . Hayes provided the voice for the character of . The role of Chef drew on Hayes's talents both as an actor and as a singer, thanks to the character's penchant for making conversational points in the form of crudely suggestive soul songs. An album of songs from the series appeared in 1. Chef Aid: The South Park Album. After he played a set at the Glastonbury Festival, the same year a documentary highlighting Isaac's career and his impact on many of the Memphis artists in the 1. The following year, he appeared in the critically acclaimed independent film Hustle & Flow. He also had a brief recurring role in UPN's Girlfriends as Eugene Childs (father of Toni). South Park. Chef was a soul- singing cafeteria worker for South Park Elementary. A song from the series performed by Chef, . It reached number one on the UK singles chart and also on the Irish singles chart. The track also appeared on the album Chef Aid: The South Park Album in 1. While appearing on the Opie and Anthony radio show about a month after the episode aired, Hayes was asked, . Club on January 4, 2. Hayes was again asked about the episode. He said that he told the creators, Matt Stone and Trey Parker, . In the interview, Hayes defended South Park's style of controversial humor, noting that he was not pleased with the show's treatment of Scientology, but conceding that he . However, the statement did not directly mention Scientology. A response from Matt Stone said that Hayes' complaints stemmed from the show's criticism of Scientology and that he . He wants a different standard for religions other than his own, and to me, that is where intolerance and bigotry begin. Using sound clips from past episodes, it depicts Chef as having been brainwashed and urges viewers (via Kyle talking to the town) to . In the end, Chef is unable to break free from his brainwashing and dies an extremely gruesome death, falling off a cliff, being mutilated by wild animals and shot several times. At the end of the episode he is shown as being resurrected as a cyborg in the style of the resurrection of Darth Vader at the end of Star Wars: Episode III . My sources say that someone quit it for him. Friends in Memphis tell me that Hayes did not issue any statements on his own about South Park. The decision was made after Hayes suffered a stroke leaving him vulnerable to outside influence and unable to make such decisions on his own.
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