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Isaac Hayes

Isaac Hayes

Acting
20 Aug 1942
10 Aug 2008
Covington, Tennessee, USA

Biography

Isaac Lee Hayes, Jr. (August 20, 1942 – August 10, 2008) was an American songwriter, musician, singer, and occasionally an actor. Hayes was one of the creative influences behind the southern soul music label Stax Records, where he served both as an in-house songwriter and as a record producer, teaming with his partner David Porter during the mid-1960s. Hayes, Porter, Bill Withers, the Sherman Brothers, Steve Cropper, and John Fogerty were inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2005 in rec...

Also Known As

Ike, Isaac Lee Hayes Jr., The Black Moses

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