Nearly 20 Years After Isaac Hayes' Controversial South Park Exit, His Son Candidly 'Set The Record Straight' About Who Was To ...

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.

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 ...

Funk in the 1970s produced some of the best of the genre and here are ten of the best songs of the musical experiment.

A federal judge on Tuesday ordered Donald Trump to temporarily stop using the song "Hold On, I'm Coming," co-written by Isaac Hayes, at his events.

The Hayes Estate is demanding the Trump campaign stop using the R&B classic “Hold On, I’m Coming” at the former president's events.

A 13-year-old Stevie Wonder started a three-week run at the top of the charts; John Denver was at the top of the album charts; Brian Adams had his first U.S. No. 1 album; Simon Le Bon of Duran Duran ...

Yet "Theme From Shaft," which would earn both Grammys and an Oscar, was just a snippet of the groundbreaking music for which Hayes — who died Sunday at age 65 — was responsible.

More than five decades after its groundbreaking, gold-selling release, Craft Recordings has released an audiophile-friendly pressing of "Hot Buttered Soul," Isaac Hayes' genre-redefining 1969 soul ...

WBGO’s Felix Hernandez, host of Rhythm Revue, profiles the legendary soul singer, songwriter and producer Isaac Hayes, who was born on August 20, 1942.

And that was - that wound up being "Presenting Isaac Hayes," my very first album. DAVIES: Isaac Hayes speaking with Terry Gross, recorded in 1994. We'll hear more after a break. This is FRESH AIR.

This is FRESH AIR. I'm Dave Davies, in for Terry Gross. (SOUNDBITE OF ISAAC HAYES SONG, "THEME FROM SHAFT") DAVIES: The movie "Shaft" helped launched the blaxploitation genre of the '70s. The Academy ...